- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; Revised edition edition (28 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140513825
- ISBN-13: 978-0140513820
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,224,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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More than an essential companion to the complete Penguin Guide to Compact Discs (1999), the Yearbook 2000/1 reviews hundreds of brand new CDs and takes a closer look at some of the more unusual areas of the classical-music repertoire. Features include:
-- Evaluations of recordings based on sound quality, interpretation, excellence of performance, and financial value
-- Reviews of ongoing series, information on rarer pieces and an extensive new section on instrumental recitals and concerts
-- Listings of bargain and super-bargain CDs
-- The editors' personal selection of the 100 greatest recordings of all time
-- Evaluations of recordings based on sound quality, interpretation, excellence of performance, and financial value
-- Reviews of ongoing series, information on rarer pieces and an extensive new section on instrumental recitals and concerts
-- Listings of bargain and super-bargain CDs
-- The editors' personal selection of the 100 greatest recordings of all time
The Yearbook will help you make an informed choice from the vast and bewildering range of classical recordings offered today.
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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The first and still the best guide to buying classical music. This is the follow on to the last one in giving a wider range of 'best' buys. In a short time you will always save the cost of this book while you expand your musical library. The veritable 'Bible' of recommendations.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Superb update of the ultimate CD guide
16 Mar 2001
Format:Paperback
As has been the case ever since I began reading these wonderful guides in the late 80s, this volume updating the complete 1999 compilation of the Penguin Guide is comprehensive, entertaining, and highly informative. It contains reviews of thousands upon thousands of new and reissued CDs, which are full of wit and insight and which are up to the authors' usual high standards. The separate alphabetical listings on invididual performers, which unfortunately were omitted from the 1999 guide because of lack of space, are incredibly valuable.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Invaluable
24 July 2001
Format:Paperback
For any collector of classical music this book is a must have resource. Keeping ahead of, or even up with the amount of classical recordings in today's market is a near impossibility, but with some help from Penguin you can at least make an attempt to. I find some disagreement with some choices and know that I find they leave out some of what I consider to be good recordings, but it's mainly just personal taste, I have never been unhappy with a recording I purchased based in the recomendation of the Penguin staff.
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