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Books : The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2008
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The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2008 by: Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton List Price: $30.00 CD-Charts Price: $19.80 You Save: $10.20 (34%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 781.680266 EAN: 9780141033365 ISBN: 0141033363 Label: Penguin (Non-Classics) Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1568 Publication Date: October 10, 2007 Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) Studio: Penguin (Non-Classics) Sales Rank: 286841 Related Items:
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Editorial Review: Product Description: This book has remained the best and most successful guide to classical music for over 40 years. Fully revised by its team of eminent authors and written with wit and passion, "The Penguin Guide" offers reviews of all the latest releases as well as the finest established recordings; the greatest historic performances; the major period instrument recordings; an in-depth survey of the best of the budget-priced CDs; and, a core collection of 100 handpicked CDs that every serious classical music fan should own. Now published annually for the first time, this book is essential reading. "Indispensable, illuminating and comprehensive" - "The Times". Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - steep decline in qualitySadly this publication has slipped badly. Did they really have an editor?? I loved this book in past editions-they led to my deepening appreciation of classical music and through them I made many great discoveries. This edition is a mess however-inconsistent, full of typos, confusing, repetitive, and a waste. Hope somebody straightens this out. wish I had gotten my money back. Rating:  - 6 STARS! A Bible for Classical MusicI have used all the verions of this reference bible, so to speak, for 20 years. My entire (well over 300) CD Library was based on this book. Yes, they favor British and European artists, but they work extensively with the BBC and its treasure trove of 'live' recordings over the last 60 years. The bonus is, they now include DVD reviews. Rating:  - Penguin classicsStill a good guide to classic recordings and now includes DVDs, but many of the recordings cited are unobtainable. Reviews now seem to focus on musical integrity and make no mention of the sound quality of the CDs. Still, a lot better than just guessing! Rating: - Extremely disappointingI agree with the negative reviews posted here. I have been buying this guide regularly for decades, and look forward to each new issue avidly, despite the ever-lengthening trail of nonsensical statements that have survived cut-and-paste editing as recordings are added or (especially) deleted from the list. I can kind of forgive this particular widespread mess, as the task of editing such a huge volume with less than an army of editorial staff is truly daunting. Despite the ever-worsening series of little faults, it has always been the Gold Standard for serious collectors of classical recordings. But the latest edition has finally toppled over into the mud. For the first time there are fewer entries rather than more compared to the last ... Read More: Rating: - Classic music lovers' sourcebook gets better and betterAfter purchasing The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings: Eighth Edition (Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings) and being very happy with it, this was an obvious choice for me to start getting a handle on my classical music collection. The book is well organized and attempts to be comprehensive, but given the expanse of classical music available, invariably some of your personal favorite recordings will be left out of this tome. (One of my all time favorites, and a recurring title of many "must have" classical music lists, Mussorgsky: Pictures at An Exhibition was left out, for example.) This volume uses a box summary with symbols and abbreviations that allow them to distinguish certain recordings from others, and it is very useful with a not-too-steep ... Read More: |
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