2006 Audie® Award Winner - Original Work

Following on the success of The Story of Classical Music, Darren Henley and Marin Alsop combine forces again to tell, in more detail, the lives of six key composers Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorák and Shostakovich. Their colourful lives and their love of music is told against the backdrop of some of their finest works – an ideal combination.

Darren Henley is the Managing Editor of Classic FM. His radio programs have been honored by the Sony Radio Academy Awards, the New York International Radio Festival and the United Nations. Darren writes regularly for the Classic FM Magazine, for which he is editorial consultant. He was previously a journalist for ITN and Invicta Radio in Kent. He is the co-author of all three titles in the best-selling Classic FM Pocket Book series, published by Boosey & Hawkes.