Music audiobooks

Old Sweet Songs

By: Garrison Keillor

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

On July 6, 1974, about a dozen people made their way to the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College in St. Paul for the first broadcast of a new radio show. Things went pretty well, so Garrison Keillor and his team produced another show, then another . . . close to 500 in the first 10 years alone.

Today A Prairie Home Companion is heard... Read more

A Very Irregular Head

By: Rob Chapman

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 13 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

“I don’t think I’m easy to talk about. I’ve got a very irregular head. And I’m not anything that you think I am anyway” (Syd Barrett, Rolling Stone, 1971).Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett was the definition of a golden boy. With good looks and an aptitude for music, he was a charismatic child who fast became a teenage leader in 1960s England. Along... Read more

Life

By: Keith Richards & James Fox

Narrated by: Keith Richards, Johnny Depp & Joe Hurley

Length: 23 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

The long-awaited autobiography of Keith Richards, guitarist, songwriter, singer, and founding member of the Rolling Stones.

With The Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the songs that roused the world, and he lived the original rock and roll life.

Now, at last, the man himself tells his story of life in the crossfire hurricane. Listening... Read more

Жизнеописания Гайдна и Моцарта.

By: Stendhal

Narrated by: Nikolay Trifilov

Length: 7 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

Романист Стендаль выступает в роли музыкального критика и страстного любителя музыки. Эти произведения представляют собой, в первом случае, расширенный художественный перевод книги итальянца Джузеппе Карпани (обвинившего Стендаля в плагиате), во втором - талантливую компиляцию двух немецких биографий Моцарта (Винклера и Крамера), завершающуюся... Read more

13 Words

By: Lemony Snicket

Narrated by: Michael Emerson

Length: 11 minutes

Abridged: No

From New York Times bestselling author Lemony Snicket comes an uproarious, whimsical story like no other.As an added highlight, this audiobook includes an original song, composed by Nico Muhly and sung by mezzo-soprano Eve Gigliotti, that ties all thirteen words together in an unforgettable and melodic feast for the ears!13 Words:1. Bird
2.... Read more

Stories Behind the Greatest Hits of Christmas

By: Ace Collins

Narrated by: Paul Boehmer

Length: 5 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Much like The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs Of Christmas, The Stories Behind The Great Traditions of Christmas and More Stories Behind The Best Loved Songs of Christmas this new Collins Christmas book will fill a void in the book world. With a look at these secular classics, people who love the music of the season will finally have a... Read more

Listen to This

By: Alex Ross

Narrated by: Alex Ross

Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

One of The Telegraph's Best Music Books 2011

Alex Ross's award-winning international bestseller, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, has become a contemporary classic, establishing Ross as one of our most popular and acclaimed cultural historians. Listen to This, which takes its title from a beloved 2004 essay in which Ross... Read more

Patti LuPone

By: Patti LuPone

Narrated by: Patti LuPone

Length: 8 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

The legendary Patti LuPone is one of the theatre’s most beloved leading ladies. Now she lays it all bare, sharing the intimate story of her life both onstage and off--through the dizzying highs and darkest lows--with the humor and outspokenness that have become her trademarks.

With nearly 100 photographs, including an 8-page four-color insert,... Read more

Sie Düffeldoffel da! Herbert Wehner - Ein komischer Heiliger

By: Jürgen Roth

Narrated by: Gert Heidenreich

Length: 2 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Herbert Wehner war ein Jahrhundertpolitiker, ein Mensch, an dem sich die Weltgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bricht. Er war Sozialist, Anarchist, Kommunist, Widerstandskämpfer in Deutschland und in der Emigration. 1946 trat er in die SPD ein und gehörte von 1949 bis 1983 dem Deutschen Bundestag an. Wehner liebte das Parlament. Er hielt... Read more

Bob Dylan In America

By: Sean Wilentz

Narrated by: Sean Wilentz

Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

Abridged: No

One of America’s finest historians shows us how Bob Dylan, one of the country’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

Growing up in Greenwich Village, Sean Wilentz discov­ered the music of Bob Dylan as a young teenager; almost half a century later, he revisits Dylan’s work with the skills of an... Read more

The Lost Music

By: Kathryn Meyrick

Narrated by: Patrick Macnee

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

As Gustav and his family travel the world in search of the lost music, we share their discovery of musical traditions and strange instruments in many lands, before returning home in triumph to the World Festival of Music. A Child's Play audio production. Read more

Leonard Bernstein

By: Barry Seldes

Narrated by: Dick Hill

Length: 8 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

From his dazzling conducting debut in 1943 until his death in 1990, Leonard Bernstein's star blazed brilliantly. In this fresh and revealing biography of Bernstein's political life, Barry Seldes examines Bernstein's career against the backdrop of cold war America - blacklisting by the State Department in 1950, voluntary exile from the New York... Read more

Mustaine

By: Dave Mustaine & Joe Layden

Narrated by: Tom Wayland

Length: 11 hours 38 minutes

Abridged: No

From his early, crazy days as a founding member of Metallica, Dave Mustaine has seen and experienced everything in the world of rock n’ roll. From his young triumphs and ignominious ouster from the band for his hard-partying ways to his later rule over Megadeth, one of the most successful heavy metal bands of all time, Mustaine tells it all.... Read more

Composed

By: Rosanne Cash

Narrated by: Rosanne Cash

Length: 7 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her memoir, Cash writes compellingly about her... Read more

Talking to Girls About Duran Duran

By: Rob Sheffield

Narrated by: Scott Sheppard

Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

The author of the national bestseller Love is a Mix Tape returns, with a different-but equally personal and equally universal- pin on music as memory."No rock critic-living or dead, American or otherwise-has ever written about pop music with the evocative, hyperpoetic perfectitude of Rob Sheffield."So said Chuck Klosterman about Love is a Mix... Read more

Meet Ludvig Van Beethoven

By: Charles Margerison

Narrated by: James Rix

Length: 14 minutes

Abridged: No

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Meet Wolfgang Mozart

By: Charles Margerison

Narrated by: Charles Margerison

Length: 23 minutes

Abridged: No

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The Ninth

By: Harvey Sachs

Narrated by: Patrick Egan

Length: 9 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

“All men become brothers . . .
Be embraced, ye millions!”
 
The Ninth Symphony, a symbol of freedom and joy, was Beethoven’s mightiest attempt to help humanity find its way from darkness to light, from chaos to peace. Yet the work was born in a repressive era, with terrified Bourbons, Hapsburgs, and Romanovs using every means at their disposal to... Read more

You Don't Know Me

By: Ray Charles Robinson, Jr. & Mary Jane Ross

Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman

Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A deeply personal memoir of the private Ray Charles - the man behind the legend - by his eldest son.

Ray Charles is an American music legend. A multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, pianist, and singer with an inimitable vocal style and a catalog of hits including "What I Say," "Georgia on My Mind," "Unchain My Heart," "I Can't Stop Loving... Read more

The Music Lesson

By: Victor L. Wooten

Narrated by: Victor L. Wooten, Chuck Rainey, Sam Hunter, Rad...

Length: 7 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

"Boy, do I have a lot to learn!" Anyone who's ever picked up a musical instrument of any kind—from the first caveman banging rocks to that little kid at the guitar shop—has though that. I know I did. I'd been trying for years to break in to the music scene, to show everyone my chops, to make my mark. And I was good. But I wasn't great. I knew... Read more

Lips Unsealed - Abridged

By: Belinda Carlisle

Narrated by: Belinda Carlisle

Length: 5 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music that the Go-Go’s created, but it also conceals the... Read more

The Mozart Question

By: Michael Morpurgo

Narrated by: Michael Morpurgo & Alison Read

Length: 1 hour 6 minutes

Abridged: No

“The time has come, I think, not to lie any more.” This beautiful recording features solo performances by various classical musicians. When cub reporter Lesley is sent to Venice to interview a world-renowned violinist, the journalist is told she can ask Paolo Levi anything about his life and career as a musician,... Read more

Lives of the Musicians

By: Kathleen Krull

Narrated by: John C. Brown & Melissa Hughes

Length: 1 hour 57 minutes

Abridged: No

It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals. But what were these people—and other famous musicians—really like? What did they eat? What did they wear? How did they spend their time? What were they like as children? What were their phobias, obsessions, and bad... Read more

Losing My Cool

By: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Narrated by: Thomas Chatterton Williams

Length: 5 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

Unabridged, 7 hours

Read by the author

A pitch-perfect account of how hip-hop culture drew in the author and how his father drew him out again-with love, perseverance, and fifteen thousand books. Read more