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Frolowskoje im Februar 1891 - Tschaikowsky komponiert Ballettmusik für den "Nussknacker". Eigentlich ist das eine reizende Geschichte für Kinder, vielleicht auch für Erwachsene, aber bestimmt nicht für Mäuse! Doch die Mäusefamilie, die sich im Haus von Tschaikowsky eingenistet hat, sieht das anders: Sie sind ganz wild auf die Geschichte, denn darin kämpft schließlich ein Mäusekönig gegen Zinnsoldaten! Nacht für Nacht stöbern sie klammheimlich ...

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There is simply no better introduction to the interfaces and structure of opera then this series from Maxus...

Brahms is one of the best loved, yet most controversial of all the Romantics. Almost uniquely, his works have never suffered the slightest period of eclipse. Profoundly emotional yet governed by an iron discipline, the music, like the man, is a fascinating, entertaining, often deeply moving blend of opposites. He had a gift for friendship and a capacity for love far beyond the ordinary, yet no man could be ruder or more hurtful. Though humble,...

Highly prized not only for their light irony, humor and depiction of contemporary English country life, but also for their underlying serious qualities, Austen's works are regarded by many as some of the greatest novels ever written.

For many people, Beethoven is the greatest composer who ever lived. In this portrait-in-sound, actors' readings combine with his music to reveal a titanic personality, vulnerable and belligerent, comic and tragic, and above all heroic, as he comes to grips with perhaps the greatest disability a musician can suffer. No man's music is more universal, few men's lives are more inspiring. In every sense but one his modest height he was a giant.The ...

The life of Franz Liszt was as daring and spectacular as his music. Famed throughout Europe as the greatest pianist of the nineteenth century, he was one of the most original and prophetic composers who ever lived. Beautiful in youth, glowering in age, his high-profile love affairs were the talk of the town wherever he went and his generosity to young musicians was legendary. In this account of his epic life, actors' readings combine with plen...

Wards continues for add jewels to their crown with the fine saved of educational according. This introduction to Wagner early masterpiece is a five curricle of just how and an educational effort can be done. We paced and written at a yet that will entertain crockeries with weighting moves, thus five scoot by Thomson Smile is brought to the with great panache by David Thomson.

A panoramic account of Russia at the time of Napoleon's invasion in 1812, and the lives of three aristocratic families who include the memorable Prince Andrei, Pierre, and Natasha.

Aids is one of the most popular operas ever written, a sumptuous work which has moments of great drama, but which reminds us in the end that it's all about people--the greatest love affairs and the greatest affairs of state cliff themselves in simple humanity. And no one does simple humanity better then the best-loved of all Italian composers--Guseppe Verdi.

Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin, talking, observing, musing -- and always remembering Molly, his passionate, wayward wife. Set in the shadow of Homer's Odyssey, internal thoughts give physical reality extra color and perspective.

Hedda Gabler, a deceased General's daughter marries dull George Tesman and foresees a life of middle class tedium stretching ahead when they return from a honeymoon they could not afford, to a house they cannot afford. Increasingly, she is drawn into the clutches of her admirer, Judge Brack, who seeks to establish a menage a trois. Then a former flame arrives in the brilliant but dissolute Eilert Lovborg to rival her husband for an academic po...

Instruments of the orchestra, yes, but not just instruments in the orchestra. This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present. Joining regular members are such exotic visitors as the eerie ondes martenot, the wind machine, banjos, bagpipes, coconuts, typewriters, six-shooters, taxi horns, and migrating swans / and the hundreds of examples range from illust...

Set along the River Bank and Wild Wood of England's picturesque countryside, follow the delightful adventures of the good-natured Water Rat, the society-hating Badger, the cautious, agreeable Mole and a host of other good-hearted characters as they display more-than-human caring, kindness and patience toward their new friend, the naughty yet lovable, Toad of Toad Hall. Originally told as a bedtime story to his young son, The Wind in the Willow...

In this enthralling children's adventure of pirates, buried treasure, mutiny and deceit, meet Billy Bones, Blind Pew, Black Dog and the charming buccaneer, Long John Silver.

This delightful sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland continues the tale of Alice's ventures into her fantasy world inhabited by a cast of charming characters.

No great composer's story is more predominantly happy than Haydn's, though even his has its share of clouds. Brilliant, strikingly original and blessed not only with genius but an infectious sense of humor, he was also profound and modest, and his music, copiously illustrated here, has brought happiness and illumination to millions.

When novelist Charles Condomine invites a medium into his house in order to learn about the occult for his new book, the last thing he or his second wife dream is that the seance will bring back his first wife, Elvira, who wants Charles all to herself!

The tales of the Norse Gods, of the giants, demons, trolls and dwarves still have the power to fascinate more than a thousand years after they were first told.

The great myths of ancient Greece, including Gods and Titans, Perseus, The Labours of Hercules, The Adventures of Theseus, and Jason and the Argonauts come to vivid life, in this audio retelling.