Stories of Symphonic Music

Stories of Symphonic Music

LibriVox · Audiobook · 38 episodes

'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for scathing reviews of compositions later to become classics. Here he analyzes the stories behind some famous and not so famous works. - Summary by Lynne Thompson

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Episodes

Preface

Episode 0 · 10:40
THE ORCHESTRA AS POET, PAINTER, AND DRAMATIST

Episode 1 · 14:51
BANTOCK

Episode 2 · 9:42
BEETHOVEN

Episode 3 · 22:28
BERLIOZ

Episode 4 · 22:55
BIZET

Episode 5 · 9:24
CHADWICK

Episode 6 · 12:24
CHARPENTIER

Episode 7 · 7:07
CHAUSSON

Episode 8 · 9:00
CONVERSE

Episode 9 · 12:24
DEBUSSY

Episode 10 · 11:27
DUKAS

Episode 11 · 9:04
DVOŘÁK

Episode 12 · 16:08
ELGAR

Episode 13 · 17:09
FRANCK

Episode 14 · 13:39
GLAZOUNOFF

Episode 15 · 8:11
GOLDMARK

Episode 16 · 6:36
GRIEG

Episode 17 · 6:38
HADLEY

Episode 18 · 7:52
HUBER

Episode 19 · 9:59
d'INDY

Episode 20 · 11:27
LISZT

Episode 21 · 59:14
LOEFFLER

Episode 22 · 19:12
MAC DOWELL

Episode 23 · 15:05
MENDELSSOHN

Episode 24 · 19:46
RAFF

Episode 25 · 16:30
RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF

Episode 26 · 25:23
SAINT-SAËNS

Episode 27 · 7:47
SCHUMANN

Episode 28 · 9:32
SIBELIUS

Episode 29 · 8:38
SMETANA

Episode 30 · 5:04
SPOHR

Episode 31 · 7:36
STRAUSS part 1

Episode 32 · 46:56
STRAUSS part 2

Episode 33 · 26:34
TSCHAIKOWSKY

Episode 34 · 34:10
TSCHAIKOWSKY PART 2

Episode 35 · 44:58
WAGNER

Episode 36 · 11:28
WOLF

Episode 37 · 9:21