Music audiobooks

A Personal Stand

By: Trace Adkins

Narrated by: Alan Sklar

Length: 8 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

Country music superstar Trace Adkins isn't exactly known for holding back what's on his mind. And if the millions of albums he's sold are any indication, when Trace talks, people listen. Now, in A Personal Stand, Trace Adkins delivers his maverick manifesto on politics, personal responsibility, fame, parenting, being true to yourself, hard work,... Read more

Mozart El Niño Prodigio

By: Various

Narrated by: Various

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Como era la vida diaria de ese niño, Mozart, que a los cinco años tocaba ante los reyes y componía sinfonías, es la base de esta dramatización.

The daily life of Mozart, who at the age of five was playing in front of kings and composing symphonies, is the subject of this dramatization.

Note: This is audiobook is in Spanish. Read more

Musicophilia

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: John Lee

Length: 11 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a... Read more

The Rest Is Noise

By: Alex Ross

Narrated by: Grover Gardner

Length: 23 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

The scandal over modern music has not died down. While modern paintings by Picasso and Pollock sell for a hundred million or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences; yet the influence of modern sound can be felt everywhere. Alex Ross, music critic for the New Yorker,... Read more

Musicophilia - Abridged

By: Oliver Sacks

Narrated by: Simon Prebble

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat.  But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does—humans are a... Read more

Clapton

By: Eric Clapton

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life. More than a rock star, Eric Clapton is an icon, a living embodiment of the history of rock music. Well known for his reserve in a profession marked by self-promotion, flamboyance, and spin, he now chronicles, for the first time, his remarkable... Read more

Clapton - Abridged

By: Eric Clapton

Narrated by: Bill Nighy

Length: 5 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: Yes

“I found a pattern in my behavior that had been repeating itself for years, decades even. Bad choices were my specialty, and if something honest and decent came along, I would shun it or run the other way.”

With striking intimacy and candor, Eric Clapton tells the story of his eventful and inspiring life in this poignant and honest autobiography.... Read more

A Crooked Kind of Perfect

By: Linda Urban

Narrated by: Tai Alexandra Ricci

Length: 3 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

Carnegie Hall, look out!

Zoe Elias has big musical dreams. As soon as she gets a glossy baby grand piano, she’ll be on her way. Trouble is, what Zoe gets is a wood-grained, vinyl-seated, wheeze-bag organ. The Perfectone D-60.

How will she ever be discovered as a prodigy when her lesson book is The Hits of the Seventies? Not even a cha-cha beat can... Read more

The Lord of the Rings, The Soundtrack

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

Narrated by: Various

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: No

The musical soundtrack that accompanies the BBC radio full-cast dramatisation of J R R Tolkien's classic Lord of the Rings trilogy. Read more

Wonderful Tonight - Abridged

By: Pattie Boyd

Narrated by: Pattie Boyd

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

An iconic figure of the 1960s and ’70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll. She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast... Read more

This Is Your Brain on Music - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Edward Herrmann

Length: 6 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: Yes

What can music teach us about the brain? What can the brain teach us about music? And what can both teach us about ourselves?
 
In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin (The World in Six Songs and The Organized Mind) explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how... Read more

Nach Süden - Ein Briefwechsel und 11 Lieder (ungekürzt)

By: Fanny Hensel

Narrated by: Markus Hoffmann, Beate Kurecki, Andreas Hueck, ...

Length: 1 hour 1 minute

Abridged: No

Fanny Hensel geb. Mendelssohn wird am 14. November 1805 als erstes von vier Kindern geboren. Schon früh entdeckt sie ihre Liebe zur Musik, die ganz im Sinne der Familientradition zunächst auch gefördert wird. Doch bald muß sie erkennen, daß sie sich in ihrer Arbeit als Frau nur begrenzt entfalten darf. Im Gegensatz zu ihrem Bruder bleiben ihr... Read more

Alice Cooper, Golf Monster - Abridged

By: Alice Cooper, Kenneth Zimmerman & Keith Zimmerman

Narrated by: Alice Cooper

Length: 4 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The man who invented shock rock tells the amazing and, yeah, shocking story of how he slayed his thirsty demons–with a golf club. It started one day when Cooper was watching a Star Trek rerun between concerts, bored and drunk on a quart-of-whiskey-a-day habit; a friend dragged the rocker out of his room and suggested a round of golf. Cooper has... Read more

Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?

By: Eric Bentley

Narrated by: Ryan Vincent Anderson, Michael Canavan, Jake Gr...

Length: 1 hour 27 minutes

Abridged: No

In the mid-1950’s, the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating the communist influence in the entertainment industry. This searing docudrama from actual transcripts of the hearings reveals how decent people were persuaded to “name names,” and the steep price paid by those who refused.

An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance... Read more

Stage Fright on a Summer Night

By: Mary Pope Osborne

Narrated by: Mary Pope Osborne

Length: 42 minutes

Abridged: No

The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system!

The show must go on! That's what Jack and Annie learn when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to Elizabethan England. There they meet William Shakespeare himself—one of the greatest writers of all time! But... Read more

Do You! - Abridged

By: Russell Simmons & Chris Morrow

Narrated by: Black Ice

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Since rising out of the New York City streets over 25 years ago, Russell Simmons has helped create such groundbreaking ventures as Def Jam Records, Phat Farm, and Def Comedy Jam. Russell might have helped introduce hip-hop to the world, but he credits his success to his belief in a strong set of principles—or laws. In 12 straightforward steps,... Read more

Amazing Grace

By: Cecilia

Narrated by: Cecilia

Length: 45 minutes

Abridged: No

"Cecilia is an inspirational singer with a crystal clear and astonishingly beautiful voice. She is different; an artist somewhere between Celine Dion, Sarah Brightman and Enya. Her unique voice reaches 3 octaves, singing everything from pop to classical. This album includes her famous rendition of Amazing Grace. Other tracks include: Prayer of... Read more

Things the Grandchildren Should Know

By: Mark Oliver Everett

Narrated by: The Chet

Length: 5 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: No

How does one young man survive the deaths of his entire family and manage to make something worthwhile of his life? In this poignant and original coming-of-age story, indie rock musician Mark Oliver Everett tells the story of his “ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady” upbringing and how it fed into his creativity. The insecure son... Read more

Healing Sounds And Shifting Frequencies

By: Jonathan Goldman

Narrated by: Justine Willis Toms

Length: 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Jonathan and Andi Goldman describe Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, and other concepts of tantra, and its relationship to sound, vibration, and enlightenment. The Goldmans teach that using our voices and other sounds in new ways can attract greater harmony and creativity within our lives and relationships. Read more

A Prairie Home Companion Duets

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Great music is a hallmark of A Prairie Home Companion, and some of the best features pairs of guests harmonizing. This new collection brings together 14 of the best vocal and instrumental duets featured on A Prairie Home Companion, performed by a range of artists, including The Everly Brothers, Robin and Linda Williams, Leo Kottke and Iris... Read more

Beat in Hamburg - Die große Freiheit (Ungekürzt)

By: Herbert Hoven & Hans Jacobshagen

Narrated by: Herbert Hoven & Hans Jacobshagen

Length: 1 hour 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Als die Beatmusik laufen lernte. Viel ist in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten darüber geschrieben, fabuliert und diskutiert worden, wie es denn nun tatsächlich war, "Damals in Hamburg". Hörensagen, Kolportage, Weitergabe von Gerüchten - am Ende stand bislang sehr oft ein Sammelsurium aus Halb(wahr)heiten. Wer aber könnte besser Auskunft geben als... Read more

Radiopiraten - Abenteuer auf hoher See (Ungekürzt)

By: Herbert Hoven & Hans Jacobshagen

Narrated by: Herbert Hoven & Hans Jacobshagen

Length: 1 hour 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Ende der 60er Jahre, als in Deutschland noch Musikmoderatoren durchs Programm führten, saßen bei Radio Caroline, Radio Veronika, Radio London und Radio Mi Amigo oder bei Nordsee International Discjockeys vor dem Mikrofon und spielten pausenlos die neuesten Titel aus England und Amerika. Read more

Keyboard Conversations®: The Power and Passion of Beethoven

By: Jeffrey Siegel

Narrated by: Jeffrey Siegel

Length: 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers.

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Keyboard Conversations®: Mozart and Friends

By: Jeffrey Siegel

Narrated by: Jeffrey Siegel

Length: 56 minutes

Abridged: No

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel combine the virtuosity and poetry of a world-class pianist with entertaining commentary to create a magical concert experience. His lively, engaging insights and captivating performances make listening an enthralling experience for all music lovers.

For information about the other titles in this series... Read more