The Silver Swan: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Silver Swan, credited to Orlando Gibbons, 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 volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2011. Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods. He was a leading composer in the England of his day. In the 20th century, the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould championed Gibbons's music, and named him as his favorite composer. (summary from Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Silver Swan
• Author credits: Orlando Gibbons
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 18
• Listed recording duration: 15:55

Catalogue topics

• poetry
• animals
• nature
• philosophy

Track guide

1. The Silver Swan - Read by AM — 0:42
2. The Silver Swan - Read by BG — 0:52
3. The Silver Swan - Read by DII — 0:42
4. The Silver Swan - Read by DL — 0:46
5. The Silver Swan - Sung by Ezwa — 1:26
6. The Silver Swan - Read by GB — 0:54
7. The Silver Swan - Read by GHS — 0:47
8. The Silver Swan - Read by JMP — 0:45
9. The Silver Swan - Read by JO — 0:44
10. The Silver Swan - Read by KJA — 0:45
11. The Silver Swan - Read by LAH — 0:50
12. The Silver Swan - Read by LL — 0:44
13. The Silver Swan - Read by LLB — 0:55
14. The Silver Swan - Read by LLW — 1:43
15. The Silver Swan - Read by MG — 0:58
16. The Silver Swan - Read by REF — 0:49
17. The Silver Swan - Read by RN — 0:56
18. The Silver Swan - Read by TG — 0:42

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