Richard Armitage Performs David Copperfield for Audible
10 February 2016 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
New Recording Now Available for Download at
Audible.com
Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today
announced the release of beloved stage and screen actor Richard
Armitage’s audio interpretation of Charles Dickens’ most
autobiographical novel, David Copperfield. This impassioned
performance by the star of Hannibal and The Hobbit is now available
for download at audible.com/Copperfield.
"I think David Copperfield is Dickens’ broadest, most humorous
and moving epic novel,” said Armitage. “His treatment in this work
of birth, life, love and death had a huge impact on me the first
time I read it. It gave me immense pleasure to attempt to bring
these vivid characters to life for Audible. The resilience and
tenacity of the central protagonist and the paths which Dickens
carves out for David, through his extraordinary life, touch the
heart and soul, bringing tears of both laughter and of deep
sadness.”
“That this work was considered largely autobiographical makes
for a truly immersive read and is one of my favorite works of
classic English literature,” added Armitage. “I'm very proud to
have been asked to read this beloved book. I hope you enjoy
listening.”
“David Copperfield is among Dickens’ most enduring and popular
novels, and now there’s another reason to experience—or
revisit—this remarkable and inventive imagining of one man’s life,”
said Audible EVP and Publisher Beth Anderson. “With every
recording, we strive to identify the perfect match of text and
actor, and we think listeners will agree that Richard Armitage and
David Copperfield is that ideal pairing. Fans of Richard’s
television and film work are going to love spending time at the gym
or in the car as he tells them this story.”
In addition to his impressive television and film resume,
Armitage is a renowned and polished audiobook narrator. His 2015
performance of Classic Love Poems, also published by Audible
Studios, was one of the bestselling audiobooks of the year, and is
a finalist for the Audie Award in the “Best Male Narrator”
category. His recording of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: A Novel, was
named Audible’s best audiobook of the year in 2014.
In addition to Armitage, among the acclaimed performers who have
narrated works of literature for Audible are Rosamund Pike, Dan
Stevens, James Franco, Jesse Eisenberg, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kate
Winslet and Tim Robbins. In 2013, Audible Studios won its first
Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian’s memoir Society’s
Child, and also won the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year, for
Colin Firth’s performance of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair.
Audible is nominated for a Grammy in the Best Spoken Word Album
category again this year, for Ian’s performance, with Jean Smart,
of Isabel Miller’s GBLT classic Patience and Sarah.
Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and
commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has
since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook
download segment. In 2015, listeners around the world downloaded
1.6 billion hours of audio from Audible.com outlets; Audible
members downloaded an average of more than 17 books over the course
of the year. Two thirds of new Audible members are first-time
audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way
to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to
unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and
utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than
250,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the preeminent
provider of spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes
Store.
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