Stories of Symphonic Music: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Stories of Symphonic Music, credited to Lawrence Gilman, 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 Stories of Symphonic Music by Lawrence Gilman. Read in English by Lynne T; WilkieMills; Lynda Marie Neilson; Monika M. C.; Larry Wilson; Kathleen Moore; Grant Hicks; Greg Giordano; Jan Moorehouse; DJRickyV; realisticspeakers; Mayah; schrm '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

Recording facts

• Recording title: Stories of Symphonic Music
• Author credits: Lawrence Gilman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 10:16:19

Catalogue topics

• music
• Beethoven
• liszt
• berlioz
• strauss
• bizet
• symphonies
• overtures

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 00 - Preface — 10:40
2. 01 - THE ORCHESTRA AS POET, PAINTER, AND DRAMATIST — 14:51
3. 02 - BANTOCK — 9:42
4. 03 - BEETHOVEN — 22:28
5. 04 - BERLIOZ — 22:55
6. 05 - BIZET — 9:24
7. 06 - CHADWICK — 12:24
8. 07 - CHARPENTIER — 7:07
9. 08 - CHAUSSON — 9:00
10. 09 - CONVERSE — 12:24
11. 10 - DEBUSSY — 11:27
12. 11 - DUKAS — 9:04
13. 12 - DVOŘÁK — 16:08
14. 13 - ELGAR — 17:09
15. 14 - FRANCK — 13:39
16. 15 - GLAZOUNOFF — 8:11
17. 16 - GOLDMARK — 6:36
18. 17 - GRIEG — 6:38
19. 18 - HADLEY — 7:52
20. 19 - HUBER — 9:59
21. 20 - d'INDY — 11:27
22. 21 - LISZT — 59:14
23. 22 - LOEFFLER — 19:12
24. 23 - MAC DOWELL — 15:05

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