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A IS FOR OBOE: THE ORCHESTRA'S ALPHABET

Earphones Award Winner

by | Read by Thomas Quasthoff

Children Ages 6+ • 50 mins. • Unabridged • © 2021

Narrator Thomas Quasthoff's voice has a musicality perfectly suited to this rich alphabet book with its own symphonic score. This is a poetic tribute to the orchestra—from the titular oboe, offering its musical “A” at each symphony’s beginning, to musical notation, the conductor, the instruments, and the audience. In concert with the authors' passages, Quasthoff's German-accented baritone moves through alliterative phrases, describing singing piccolos, mournful English horns, and trilling woodwinds. Each letter has its own music accompanying Quasthoff’s narration and as a stand-alone piece of representative music. There is simply no better way to experience this book than to hear it. An educational and emotive homage to the orchestra. L.T. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award, 2022 Best Audiobook © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine [Published: FEBRUARY 2022]

Trade Ed. • Listening Library • 2022

DD ISBN 9780593346228 $8.00

 

Library Ed. • Listening Library • 2022

DD ISBN 9780593346235 $22.00

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