Showing results by author "Gerard" in All Categories
-
-
Bond of Union
- Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
- By: Gerard Koeppel
- Narrated by: Dennis Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Conceived in the early 1800s and completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was the boldest and biggest American engineering project of its century, with enduring political, social, and economic effects. It was the Erie Canal that first opened up the West to American enterprise and imagination, bringing vast riches and a far-reaching vision to a rapidly expanding nation.In this compelling narrative, author Gerard Koeppel tells the complete, sweeping story of the creation of the canal.
-
Bond of Union
- Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire
- Narrated by: Dennis Stone
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 22-01-10
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£18.71 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Haydn's Cello Concerto in D Major & Symphony No. 103
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
More than any other composer, Franz Joseph Haydn deserves to be called the father of music's "Classical" style. As he came of age in the mid-18th century, musical thinking was in the midst of profound changes. The compositional forms and procedures of the Baroque era began to seem old-fashioned and composers sought fresh modes of musical expression.
-
Conductor's Guide to Haydn's Cello Concerto in D Major & Symphony No. 103
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 17-01-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 & 1812 Overture
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
If the vivid expression of human passion is a hallmark of Romanticism in music, then Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was perhaps the most Romantic of all composers. A sensitive, introspective, and extremely emotional man, Tchaikovsky poured his joys, sorrows, and drams into compositions that have touched listeners for over a century.
-
Conductor's Guide to Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 & 1812 Overture
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 13-06-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Mozart's Symphony No. 40 & Symphony No. 41
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
By the time Mozart turned 20 he was already one of the most skilled composers of his day. His output included not only symphonies and concertos but piano pieces, serenades, arias, operas, and smaller species of musical theater, songs, and church music. Symphony No. 40 in G Minor forms the centerpiece of the "final trilogy".
-
Conductor's Guide to Mozart's Symphony No. 40 & Symphony No. 41
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 22-12-05
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, No. 5, and Orchestral Suite No. 3
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
With J.S. Bach and three of his sons, Wilhelm Friedemann, Carl Philipp Emanuel, and Johann Christian, we find a concentration of familial talent that is unique in history. The elder Bach was certainly the most accomplished member of his clan, but his offspring also attained a high level of musical achievement.
-
Conductor's Guide to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, No. 5, and Orchestral Suite No. 3
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
- Release date: 17-01-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Schubert's Symphony No. 5 & Symphony No. 8
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 58 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The music of Franz Schubert is cherished for its beautiful flow of melody; melody that runs through the composer's songs and instrumental compositions like a clear and inexhaustible stream. But Schubert was more than just a gifted melodist. He was also the creator of exquisite symphonies in the Classical tradition.
-
Conductor's Guide to Schubert's Symphony No. 5 & Symphony No. 8
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 58 mins
- Release date: 17-01-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£4.89 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Gerard Schwarz describes how Bela Bartok developed new rhythmic patterns modeled on Balkan and North African folk music and explored unusual instrumental colors and textures. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Bartok's innovative tendencies earned him a reputation as an uncompromising modernist, making him almost a musical anarchist who was unappreciated and largely unperformed, particularly in his native Hungary.
-
Conductor's Guide to Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin & Concerto for Orchestra
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 30-01-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Chopin's Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Nocturne in E-flat Major, & More
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Gerard Schwarz explains how Chopin came to embody the Romantic Movement with his rich harmonic shadings, his intense poetic expression, and his attention to the sensual qualities of music. But Chopin did more than just write music imbued with the spirit of Romanticism. In many ways he embodied an archetypal Romantic character: a lonely genius, doomed by that most Romantic disease, tuberculosis; a visionary musician too refined to seek public acclaim.
-
Conductor's Guide to Chopin's Impromptu in C-sharp Minor, Nocturne in E-flat Major, & More
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 30-01-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Strauss' Thus Spake Zarathustra and Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall1
-
Performance1
-
Story1
Like all tone poems, "Thus Spake Zarathustra" follows a "program" or story line which, to some extent, dictates its musical form and details. Strauss derived his program from Nietzsche's philosophical allegory or the same name which theorizes the rise of mankind from a primitive natural state to one of moral and intellectual superiority.
-
Conductor's Guide to Strauss' Thus Spake Zarathustra and Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 12 mins
- Release date: 17-01-06
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Conductor's Guide to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 4
- By: Gerard Schwarz
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Original Recording
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The work of Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) has been called the culmination of the Classical era or the wellspring of the Romantic era in European music. Historians today see him as the heir of Haydn and Mozart, carrying their musical discoveries to a new level of complexity and integration. But the generations of composers that followed Beethoven saw him more as the headstrong radical, breaking the shackles of classicism and showing new possibilities for music.
-
Conductor's Guide to Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 4
- Narrated by: Gerard Schwarz
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
- Release date: 22-12-05
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£5.94 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
High Cotton
- Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
- By: Gerard Helferich
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
This dirt-under-the-fingernails portrait of a small-time farmer follows Zack Killebrew over a single year as he struggles to defend his cotton against weeds, insects, and drought, as well as 21st-century threats such as globalization.
-
High Cotton
- Four Seasons in the Mississippi Delta
- Narrated by: Jeremy Gage
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 17-12-09
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£14.51 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Aurélia
- O il sogno e la vita
- By: Gerard De Nerval
- Narrated by: Fabio Farnè
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
"Il Sogno è una seconda vita. […] È un sotterraneo vago che si schiarisce poco a poco […] poi il quadro prende forma […] e il mondo degli Spiriti si dischiude a noi." Con queste parole si apre "Aurélia", l'onirico racconto della discesa nella follia del poeta e romanziere francese Gérard de Nerval, famoso per la raccolta di racconti "Le figlie del fuoco".
-
Aurélia
- O il sogno e la vita
- Narrated by: Fabio Farnè
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 24-08-19
- Language: Italian
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£10.76 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
L'home que va viure dues vegades
- By: Gerard Quintana
- Narrated by: Gerard Quintana
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Eivissa, 1999. La Maria i els seus fills, l’Àngel i l'Alba, de cinc i set anys, arriben una tarda plàcida de setembre a la platja després de saber que el vol del pare, el Salvador, ha estat cancel·lat i que torna amb el darrer avió de la nit. El que passarà en aquella petita cala ho canviarà tot per sempre.
-
L'home que va viure dues vegades
- Narrated by: Gerard Quintana
- Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 09-06-21
- Language: catalan
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.44 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Entre el cel i la terra
- By: Gerard Quintana
- Narrated by: Jordi Llovet
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Barcelona, 1952. En Pachi Saura fa més d'un any que s'ha traslladat a la ciutat per estudiar a l'Escola de Belles Arts. Instal·lat en un cau prop de la Plaça Real, mira de construir la vida que ha somiat lluny dels dictats familiars. Els primers mesos comparteix el plaer de l'existència i de la música, una de les seves grans aficions, amb algunes noies del barri que li fan de model a canvi de pocs diners.
-
Entre el cel i la terra
- Narrated by: Jordi Llovet
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-11-20
- Language: catalan
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.44 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
El amor y la libertad
- By: Gérard de Cortanze
- Narrated by: Edgar Puente
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Gérard de Cortanze, autor de la exitosa novela Los amantes de Coyoacán, ha escrito una historia inolvidable sobre el amor, el arte y el destino de una mujer que no se detuvo ante nada para defender su libertad, la gran Tina Modotti. Nueva York, 1914. Tina, una joven italiana de dieciséis años, espera ansiosa su turno en el control de inmigración, con nerviosismo sostiene un sombrero en la mano derecha y en la izquierda una maleta. Tras encontrarse con su padre en San Francisco, decide mudarse a Hollywood con la esperanza de ver su nombre en las salas de cine.
-
El amor y la libertad
- Narrated by: Edgar Puente
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 08-06-21
- Language: Spanish
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£15.25 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
La Pensée informatique
- By: Gérard Berry
- Narrated by: Gérard Berry
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Tout le monde l'utilise, tout le monde en parle, ses progrès font la une : mais qui sait vraiment ce qu'est l'informatique ? Il s'agit d'une façon radicalement différente de penser, qui permet d'associer de l'information, de toute taille et de toute nature, à un ou plusieurs algorithmes, c'est-à-dire à des opérations mathématiques. C'est cela, l'informatique : une méthode systématique pour transformer un besoin en une suite d'opérations élémentaires.
-
La Pensée informatique
- Narrated by: Gérard Berry
- Series: Les Grandes voix de la recherche, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 18 mins
- Release date: 16-06-19
- Language: French
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£6.29 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
L'art du cunnilingus
- By: Gérard Leleu
- Narrated by: Eva Landolt
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Lorsque le Dr Gérard Leleu parle de fellation ou de cunnilingus, ne vous attendez surtout pas à une quelconque trivialité qui friserait la pornographie. Bien au contraire. Il révèle, dans ce livre audio, la beauté, l'amour et le sens de ces caresses exquises qu'on apprend à partager avec l'être que l'on aime le plus au monde. Avec respect et poésie, il propose aux hommes et aux femmes de perfectionner leur art érotique pour le plus grand bonheur de chacun.
-
L'art du cunnilingus
- Narrated by: Eva Landolt
- Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: French
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£9.97 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Poetry of the Moon & Stars
- By: A. E. Housman, Christina Georgina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
The sun has descended below the far horizon. The inky blackness of night begins to envelop the land. Day has gone, and the nocturnal times reveal themselves. But above the dark blanket the moon, whether waxing or waning, stands sentry, and around it vast clouds and swirls of stars regiment themselves. We look up in awe and wonder, frail beneath their vista. Our gloried poets are on hand, though, to capture word and deed, emotion and feeling, friend and foe.
-
The Poetry of the Moon & Stars
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 1 hr and 3 mins
- Release date: 15-01-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£7.63 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
The Poetry of Heaven
- By: Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Robert Burns
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
It is often said that two things are unavoidable: death and taxes.Certainly the latter is a common thorn in adult life, but as to the former it seems that for many people it is merely a hiccup in life’s eternal journey. A journey they wish, if being of good deed and character, to share at the eternity of heaven’s largesse, a reward for faith and the obligations of religion. Of course for those not so fortunate an altogether different experience was prepared for them: hell.
-
The Poetry of Heaven
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley, Ghizela Rowe
- Length: 1 hr and 23 mins
- Release date: 21-02-19
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£7.63 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-
-
-
Unrelenting Innovation
- How to Create a Culture for Market Dominance
- By: Gerard J. Tellis
- Narrated by: Mark Whitten
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall0
-
Performance0
-
Story0
Gerard Tellis, a noted expert on innovation, advertising, and global markets, makes the compelling case that the culture of a firm is the crucial driver of an organization's innovativeness. In this groundbreaking book he describes the three traits and three practices necessary to create a culture of relentless innovation. Organizations must be willing to cannibalize successful products, embrace risk, and focus on the future. Organizations build these traits by providing incentives for enterprise, empowering product champions, and encouraging internal markets.
-
Unrelenting Innovation
- How to Create a Culture for Market Dominance
- Narrated by: Mark Whitten
- Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-07-20
- Language: English
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.Add to basket failed.
Please try again laterAdd to wishlist failed.
Please try again laterRemove from wishlist failed.
Please try again laterAdding to library failed
Please try againFollow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
£13.62 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.
-