Music audiobooks

Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas

By: Ace Collins

Narrated by: Marc Cashman

Length: 4 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Enrich your holiday celebrations as you discover the incredible stories and the inspiration behind the Christmas songs you know and love.Jingle Bells Mary
Did You Know?
The First Noel
O Holy Night
Silver Bells
White ChristmasThe songs that you've sung since you were a child continue to bring Christmas to life each year. Now, you'll learn how your... Read more

The King of Ragtime

By: Larry Karp

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 11 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

It’s 1916, and time’s running out for Scott Joplin. Before he dies, he wants to provide for his wife and secure his place in musical history.Joplin has written a musical drama, and his young piano student, Martin Niederhoffer, convinces him to try to get Irving Berlin to publish and produce the work. The next day, Niederhoffer walks into his... Read more

Understanding the Fundamentals of Classical Music

By: Richard Freedman

Narrated by: Richard Freedman

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

This course is not designed as a chronological survey of musical history and its many stylistic periods or moments, nor an exploration of the lives and output of individual composers. Instead, these lectures focus on the development of listening skills. Through this course you will develop new levels of aural awareness that will allow you to... Read more

Masterpieces of Western Music

By: Jeffrey Lependorf

Narrated by: Jeffrey Lependorf

Length: 7 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

This lecture series focuses on the very best of Western music, and as we progress through these lectures, the following are two important questions that we will seek to answer as we examine the various musical selections: What makes these works masterpieces? Why highlight these works? - These works share, for the most part, a common language,... Read more

Goodnight, You Moonlight Baby

By: Ursula Mauder

Narrated by: Ursula Mauder

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Natürlich sind "Guten Abend, gute Nacht" und "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" hübsche Schlaflieder, die auch heute noch bei den kleinen Zuhörern ihre Wirkung tun. Doch welche Mutter, welcher Vater kennt nach mehrjährigem Intonieren der immergleichen einlullenden Gesänge nicht den dringenden Wunsch, das eigene Repertoire zu erweitern und die Lieder zu... Read more

Goodnight, You Moonlight Baby

By: Ursula Mauder

Narrated by: Ursula Mauder

Length: 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Natürlich sind "Guten Abend, gute Nacht" und "Der Mond ist aufgegangen" hübsche Schlaflieder, die auch heute noch bei den kleinen Zuhörern ihre Wirkung tun. Doch welche Mutter, welcher Vater kennt nach mehrjährigem Intonieren der immergleichen einlullenden Gesänge nicht den dringenden Wunsch, das eigene Repertoire zu erweitern und die Lieder zu... Read more

Inventive Classical Music

By: PBS NewsHour

Narrated by: PBS NewsHour

Length: 7 minutes

Abridged: No

For the past several years, classical music composers have gathered to share their more eclectic scores at the "Bang on a Can" festival in North Adams, Mass. Jeffrey Brown explores the origins of the event. Read more

Grumpy Old Rock Star

By: Rick Wakeman

Narrated by: Rick Wakeman

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

Around about August 1948, Mr and Mrs Cyril Wakeman had an early night and some time later, at Perivale in Middlesex, Mrs Wakeman produced a bonny baby son. They named him Richard, but he quickly became known as Rick.

Rick was a likable little fellow who had a talent for the piano and for making trouble, and music became Rick's life. Later he... Read more

The World in Six Songs - Abridged

By: Daniel J. Levitin

Narrated by: Daniel J. Levitin

Length: 6 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: Yes

The author of The New York Times bestseller This is Your Brain on Music reveals music’s role in the evolution of human culture and “will leave you awestruck.” (The New York Times)
 
Daniel J. Levitin’s astounding debut bestseller, This is Your Brain on Music, enthralled and delighted readers as it transformed our understanding of how music gets... Read more

Divided Soul - Abridged

By: David Ritz

Narrated by: Dion Graham

Length: 6 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: Yes

In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges here is a... Read more

Life With My Sister Madonna - Abridged

By: Christopher Ciccone

Narrated by: Christopher Ciccone

Length: 5 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Now in paperback, Christopher Ciccone’s “breathless tell-all” (Time) based on his fortyseven years of growing up with, working with, and understanding one of the most famous women of our time—Madonna.

Only Christopher can tell the full scale, riveting untold story behind the woman who has intrigued, scandalized, and entertained millions for half... Read more

Vince Ebert: Die jetzt aber wirklich große Show! - Abridged

By: Vince Ebert

Narrated by: Vince Ebert

Length: 53 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Comedy ist wie das Leben: Am einen Tag geht's runter, am anderen läufts auch nicht gut! Vince Ebert, geboren am 23.5.68 im Odenwald, hatte als Diplomphysiker gar keine Wahl: Er musste auf die Comedy-Bühne. 1998 mit dem ersten Soloprogramm gestartet, kam er schnell auf die Bühnen renommierter deutscher Theater und ins Fernsehen: Ottis Schlachthof... Read more

Journey of a Thousand Miles

By: Lang Lang & David Ritz

Narrated by: Feodor Chin

Length: 6 hours 49 minutes

Abridged: No

“Number One” was a phrase my father—and, for that matter, my mother—repeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents’ friends and by their friends’ children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number... Read more

Lang Lang: Playing With Flying Keys

By: Lang Lang

Narrated by: Andrew Pang

Length: 4 hours 57 minutes

Abridged: No

Lang Lang started learning to play the piano when he was three years old in Shenyang, China. Today he is one of the world’s most outstanding pianists. In this engrossing life story, adapted by Michael French, Lang Lang not only recounts the difficult, often thrilling, events of his early days, but also shares his perspective on his rapidly... Read more

Kinderträume - Abridged

By: Pete Winter, Steve Summer & Mark Winter

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Beruhigende Melodien und kleine Erzählungen nehmen Ihre Kinder an die Hand und führen sie sanft zu Entspannung und Erholung. So werden die Erlebnisse des Alltags mit Musik in der eigenen Fantasie besser verarbeitet. Read more

Radio Teddy - Bärenhöhle 02 - Abridged

By: Jörg Friedberg

Narrated by: Tom Deininger

Length: 1 hour

Abridged: Yes

Radio Teddy ist das erste Kinder- und Familienradio Deutschlands. Seit August 2005 sendet es erfolgreich sein Programm für die ganze Familie in Berlin und in Brandenburg. Die Macher etablierten es als eine art Gütesiegel für kind- und familiengerechte Unterhaltung. Die Philosophie des Programms ist einfach: Der Tagesverlauf wird jeweils auf... Read more

Radio Teddy - Bärenhöhle 01 - Abridged

By: Jörg Spielberg

Narrated by: Tom Deininger

Length: 50 minutes

Abridged: Yes

Radio Teddy ist das erste Kinder- und Familienradio Deutschlands. Seit August 2005 sendet es erfolgreich sein Programm für die ganze Familie in Berlin und in Brandenburg. Die Macher etablierten es als eine art Gütesiegel für kind- und familiengerechte Unterhaltung. Die Philosophie des Programms ist einfach: Der Tagesverlauf wird jeweils auf... Read more

Room on the Broom and Other Songs

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Julia Donaldson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Sing along with Julia Donaldson and her collection of songs – fun for kids and parents alike.

As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children.

Room on the Broom and Other Songs includes nine of her best-loved songs. The songs will be familiar to anyone who has heard them on TV or... Read more

The Gruffalo Song and Other Songs

By: Julia Donaldson

Narrated by: Julia Donaldson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Created by star pairing Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, the Gruffalo is a familiar and much-loved figure in nurseries, schools and homes everywhere. Now he returns in his very own song to offer truly monster music sessions!

As well as being the UK's most successful picture book author, Julia Donaldson is a gifted songwriter for children, and... Read more

Oper - Abridged

By: Franz Binder

Narrated by: Franz Binder

Length: 4 hours 6 minutes

Abridged: Yes

"Nirgends wird so schön gestorben, so glühend geliebt, so ergreifend gelitten, so betörend betrogen, so mitreißend Rache geübt wie auf der Bühne der Leidenschaften, begleitet von hinschmelzender, aufrührender, rauschhafter, rasender Musik. Die ganze Welt und noch viel mehr hat Platz auf der Bühne hinter dem Orchestergraben und wird zum Fest für... Read more

Beacon Street Girls #4: Out of Bounds

By: Annie Bryant

Narrated by: Various

Length: 7 hours 1 minute

Abridged: No

Can the Beacon Street Girls' magic act bring the house down at Abigail Adams Junior High's talent show? Maeve, Avery, Katani, Isabel, and Charlotte face their toughest challenges yet -- keeping the Movie House from going out of business and helping Isabel deal with too many demands from the Queens of Mean. Plus, Maeve's relationship with Dillon... Read more

The Soloist

By: Steve Lopez

Narrated by: William Hughes

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving story of the remarkable bond between a journalist in search of a story and a homeless, classically trained musician—now a major motion picture from DreamWorks starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. When Steve Lopez saw Nathaniel Ayers playing his heart out on a two-string violin on Los Angeles’ skid row, he found it impossible to... Read more

Working For Your Soul

By: Thomas Moore, Ph.D.

Narrated by: Michael Toms

Length: 58 minutes

Abridged: No

If your life is going along in a straight line there is little room for a creative change of direction. If you have a gnawing question about something better that might be waiting around the bend, Moore points to unexpected signs that it might help you make space to find fulfillment in a more creative direction in your life. Read more

Songs in the Key of My Life

By: Ferentz Lafargue

Narrated by: J.D. Jackson

Length: 4 hours 58 minutes

Abridged: No

Dumped by his fiancEe, rising literary star Ferentz Lafargue had a chance encounter with the seminal Stevie Wonder album Songs in the Key of Life. Healed by the songs, Lafargue was inspired to look at how music has shaped his life. In this entertaining memoir, he shares recollections of Michael Jackson, aerosmith, Kanye West, and many others. Read more