Ballads and Legends: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
Ballads and Legends by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 21 original MP3 tracks, 1:39:22 running time and a link to listen.
Ballads and Legends, credited to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of Ballads and Legends by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. (Translated by William Edmondstoune Aytoun; Theodore Martin.) Read in English by Alan Mapstone; Belinda McReynolds; Ellies; Katie Johnstone; Stacey Malcolm; earl; Agnes Robert Behr. A short collection of Ballads by the German poet and polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe based on German and other European and Asian legends (Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Recording facts
- Recording title: Ballads and Legends
- Author credits: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 21
- Listed recording duration: 1:39:22
Catalogue topics
- German
- English
- Legends
- Goethe
- Ballads
Track guide
- 00 - Goethe's Introduction — 9:54
- 01 - The Bride of Corinth — 13:18
- 02 - The Erl-King — 2:44
- 03 - The Fisher — 2:07
- 04 - The God and the Bayaderé — 6:55
- 05 - The Treasure-Seeker — 2:29
- 06 - The Minstrel — 2:45
- 07 - The Violet — 1:36
- 08 - The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus — 5:47
- 09 - The Castle on the Mountain — 3:05
- 10 - The Water-Man — 2:57
- 11 - The Dance of Death — 3:55
- 12 - The Fairest Flower — 5:25
- 13 - The Pariah — 11:00
- 14 - The Cavalier's Choice — 2:47
- 15 - An Autumn Night's Dream — 3:50
- 16 - The Page and Maid of Honour — 2:40
- 17 - The False Lover — 2:47
- 18 - The King in Thule — 1:44
- 19 - The Magician's Apprentice — 4:25
- 20 - The Doleful Lay of the Wife of Asan Aga — 7:12
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