James Naughtie – The Making Of Music Volume 1 Audiobook 6x CD (2007)

Superb sealed British release.

Featuring a celebration of how music evolved.

James Naughtie, in this major BBC Radio 4 series, uncovers the roots of our music, revealing how composers and performers, princes, patrons and chance happenings built a classical tradition that has become the soundtrack to our history.

Condition
Brand new. Still sealed in original shrinkwrap. Slight rattling inside due to a few discs probably coming loose inside fatbox case.


This volume takes us from Plainchant to Paganini ...The history of classical music is inextricably linked with the places where it was written, its purposes and patrons - and with politics, war and social change.

From the earliest music of the monasteries to the court and church music of the Renaissance and Reformation, into the age of democracy, composers changed with the times, coping with the restraints imposed by religion and state, even as they responded to new ways of thinking, new instruments and the impact of artistic revolutions.

Their music speaks of their time as well as their individualism. Bach and Handel were contemporaries, both German by birth, but the settings in which they worked were strikingly different; Haydn and Mozart relied on rich patrons from whom their musical successors would soon break free.

The influence of the French Revolution on Beethoven and others changed the composer's role dramatically; the Romantics bred the big symphony and the conductor, and virtuosi like Liszt, Chopin and Paganini; Italy consummated a love affair with opera which was entwined with its national story; and, amateur music-making in the nineteenth century helped to create a mass audience that embraced the European tradition and carried it forward.

This title is winner of AudioFile Earphones Award.

Track listing

1-1. Introduction: Origins
1-2. Introduction: Origins
1-3. Introduction: Origins
1-4. The Consecration Of Notre Dame
1-5. The Consecration Of Notre Dame
1-6. The Consecration Of Notre Dame
1-7. Secular Music: The Troubadours
1-8. Secular Music: The Troubadours
1-9. Secular Music: The Troubadours
1-10. The Court Of Burgundy
1-11. The Court Of Burgundy
1-12. The Court Of Burgundy
1-13. The Renaissance
1-14. The Renaissance
1-15. The Renaissance

2-1. The Reformation
2-2. The Reformation
2-3. The Reformation
2-4. Counter Reformation: The Council Of Trent
2-5. Counter Reformation: The Council Of Trent
2-6. Counter Reformation: The Council Of Trent
2-7. Venice
2-8. Venice
2-9. Venice
2-10. Elizabeth I
2-11. Elizabeth I
2-12. Elizabeth I
2-13. The Birth Of Opera
2-14. The Birth Of Opera
2-15. The Birth Of Opera

3-1. Absolute Monarchy: The Sun King
3-2. Absolute Monarchy: The Sun King
3-3. Absolute Monarchy: The Sun King
3-4. New Technology, New Instruments
3-5. New Technology, New Instruments
3-6. New Technology, New Instruments
3-7. England Kills Its King: Music And Puritanism
3-8. England Kills Its King: Music And Puritanism
3-9. England Kills Its King: Music And Puritanism
3-10. Restoration Of The English Monarchy
3-11. Restoration Of The English Monarchy
3-12. Restoration Of The English Monarchy
3-13. Bach And German Society
3-14. Bach And German Society
3-15. Bach And German Society

4-1. Bach: The St Matthew Passion
4-2. Bach: The St Matthew Passion
4-3. Bach: The St Matthew Passion
4-4. Handel The Cosmopolitan
4-5. Handel The Cosmopolitan
4-6. Handel The Cosmopolitan
4-7. Rameau And The Philosophes
4-8. Rameau And The Philosophes
4-9. Rameau And The Philosophes
4-10. Music And Society In The Later 18th Century
4-11. Music And Society In The Later 18th Century
4-12. Music And Society In The Later 18th Century
4-13. The Dukes Of Esterhazy As Patrons
4-14. The Dukes Of Esterhazy As Patrons
4-15. The Dukes Of Esterhazy As Patrons

5-1. Mozart And His Patrons
5-2. Mozart And His Patrons
5-3. Mozart And His Patrons
5-4. The Marriage Of Figaro
5-5. The Marriage Of Figaro
5-6. The Marriage Of Figaro
5-7. Music Of The French Revolution
5-8. Music Of The French Revolution
5-9. Music Of The French Revolution
5-10. Early Beethoven
5-11. Early Beethoven
5-12. Early Beethoven
5-13. The Eroica: Beethoven And Napoleon
5-14. The Eroica: Beethoven And Napoleon
5-15. The Eroica: Beethoven And Napoleon

6-1. Amateur Music Making
6-2. Amateur Music Making
6-3. Amateur Music Making
6-4. Weber And Romantic Ideology
6-5. Weber And Romantic Ideology
6-6. Weber And Romantic Ideology
6-7. Paganini On Tour: Liszt & Chopin
6-8. Paganini On Tour: Liszt & Chopin
6-9. Paganini On Tour: Liszt & Chopin
6-10. Explosion Of Grand Opera: Italy
6-11. Explosion Of Grand Opera: Italy
6-12. Explosion Of Grand Opera: Italy
6-13. Albertopolis
6-14. Albertopolis
6-15. Albertopolis

Credits
Executive Producer – Philip Sellars
Producer – Lucy Lunt, Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey
Voice Actor – Alison Carney, Benedict Cumberbatch, Laurence Fox, Simon Russell Beale
Writer, Presenter – James Naughtie

Notes
First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 4 June 2007
Last broadcast BBC Radio 4, 13 July 2007


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