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Hugh Griffith read classics at Oxford and studied music at London University. He devised and introduced the selections for the audiobook Aristotle and has written extensive notes for the Naxos Art and Music series. He also assisted in compiling and editing a wide selection of source materials on music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period. Hugh Ross trained at RADA, and has made many appearances on stage, notably for the Royal Shakespeare Company and at the Royal National Theatre. He has been in the West End in Passion, for which he received an Olivier Award nomination, and in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love. His many television credits include Between the Lines, Sharpe, and Invasion: Earth, and he was in the films Patriot Games and Trainspotting. Roy McMillan is a director, writer, actor, and an Earphones Award-winning narrator. Among his audiobook readings are Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov, and The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx.
Aristotle's surviving works were likely intended for his students and other philosophers. His prose is less than gripping for contemporary readers. This audiobook seeks to make the texts accessible by providing manageable excerpts from works such as 'The History of Animals' and 'Nicomachean Ethics.' Hugh Ross's narration of Aristotle is friendly and spirited, a style that goes some way in making this work sound less like lecture notes than it might have in other hands. Even more inviting are the preambles that place each passage in context. Roy McMillan delivers these in an avuncular voice, as though he were reading to children. In the end, these introductions are more interesting than the extracts themselves. -- AudioFile
