George Frideric Handel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
George Frideric Handel by Herbert Francis Peyser: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 5 original MP3 tracks, 1:49:00 running time and a link to listen.
George Frideric Handel, credited to Herbert Francis Peyser, 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 George Frideric Handel by Herbert Francis Peyser. Read in English by David Wales. Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and goings that any attempt to force even a small part of it into the frame of a tiny, unpretentious booklet of the present sort is as hopeless as it is presumptuous.... Handel was time and again a composer of exquisitely delicate colorations, and sensuous style, not to say a largely unsuspected master of many subtle intricacies of rhythm. The present pamphlet, wholly without originality or novelty of approach, may, perchance, induce the casual reader to renew his interest in Handel’s prodigious treasury, so much of it neglected, not to say actually undiscovered
Recording facts
- Recording title: George Frideric Handel
- Author credits: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 5
- Listed recording duration: 1:49:00
Catalogue topics
- music
- Handel
- composer
- music appreciation
Track guide
- 00 - Foreword — 2:36
- 01 - Part 1 — 26:32
- 02 - Part 2 — 28:10
- 03 - Part 3 — 27:42
- 04 - Part 4 — 24:00
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