Music audiobooks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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