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| classical music cd guide: The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings Edward Greenfield, Ivan March, Paul Czajkowski, Robert Layton, 2011-09-29 INDEPENDENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR This completely new edition of the Penguin Guide reviews the 1000 best classical albums issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which dominate the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of recording dates. More comprehensive than ever before, it indicates key recordings on CD, DVD and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. If you want the finest available version of any major classical album you will find it listed and assessed in these pages. Ranging from long-established albums to the newest releases, the latest edition represents the cream of the international repertoire and has all the information you need to select the finest classical music available. |
| classical music cd guide: The Rough Guide to Classical Music Joe Staines, 2010-05-17 This expanded and completely revised fifth edition is a unique ebook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to current leading lights such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. There are concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. Topics such as the influence of jazz, notation, conducting, the madrigal, and why Stradivarius made such great violins are covered fully in feature boxes. The Rough Guide to Classical Music in a new ebook (PDF) fromat has been praised for its mix of well-known composers with more obscure, but interesting, figures (like Antoine Brumel and Barbara Strozzi), and for the way it takes contemporary music seriously. |
| classical music cd guide: The Penguin Guide to Recorded Music Ivan March, Alan Livsey, 2008 This new completely revised edition of the Penguin Guidesurveys the major classical recordings issued and reissued over the past five decades, many of which have dominated the catalogue because of their sheer excellence, irrespective of their recording dates. More thorough than ever before, it indicates key recordings on CD, as well as on DVD, with their extra video dimension, and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. If you want the finest available version of any major classical work (including DVDs of opera and ballet) you will find it listed and acutely assessed in these pages. THE PENGUIN GUIDE TO RECORDED CLASSICAL MUSIC OFFERS- The pick of the latest releases, as well as all key established recordings The greatest historic recordings, many in outstanding new transfers (including the very first recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony) An in-depth survey of the best of the budget-priced CDs, including countless new issues A comprehensive new collection of 'Portraits' of the major artists - singers, conductors and instrumentalists |
| classical music cd guide: The Vintage Guide to Classical Music Jan Swafford, 1992-12-15 The most readable and comprehensive guide to enjoying over five hundred years of classical music -- from Gregorian chants, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, John Cage, and beyond. The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is a lively -- and opinionated -- musical history and an insider's key to the personalities, epochs, and genres of the Western classical tradition. Among its features: -- chronologically arranged essays on nearly 100 composers, from Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) to Aaron Copland (1900-1990), that combine biography with detailed analyses of the major works while assessing their role in the social, cultural, and political climate of their times; -- informative sidebars that clarify broader topics such as melody, polyphony, atonality, and the impact of the early-music movement; -- a glossary of musical terms, from a cappella to woodwinds; -- a step-by-step guide to building a great classical music library. Written with wit and a clarity that both musical experts and beginners can appreciate, The Vintage Guide to Classical Music is an invaluable source-book for music lovers everywhere. |
| classical music cd guide: The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2011 James Jolly, 2010 The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2011 is the essential guide for music lovers collecting their music on CD, DVD or as a download, drawing on Gramophone magazine's 85-year experience of reviewing classical music on record.Whether you're just dipping a toe into the huge, but rewarding, world of classical music, or already have a substantial collection, The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2011 is an invaluable companion. |
| classical music cd guide: BBC Music Magazine Top 1000 CDs Guide Malcolm MacDonald, 1996 Here, the UK's bestselling classical music magazine presents reviews of the best performances on CD, categorised under chamber music, choral and song, instrumental, opera and orchestral. |
| classical music cd guide: The Complete Classical Music Guide DK, 2020-08-11 What makes Mozart's music so great? Why does a minor chord sound sad and a major chord sound happy? What's the difference between opera and operetta? From Bach to Bernstein, this definitive guide offers a complete survey of the history of classical music. Whether you already love classical music or you're just beginning to explore it, The Complete Classical Music Guide invites you to discover the spirituality of Byrd's masses, the awesome power of Handel's Messiah, and the wonders of Wagner's operas, as well as hundreds of more composers and their masterpieces. This guide takes you on a journey through more than 1,000 years, charting the evolution of musical instruments, styles, and genres. Biographies of major and lesser-known composers offer rich insights into their music and the historical and cultural contexts that influenced their genius. The book explores the features that defined each musical era - from the ornate brilliance of the Baroque, through the drama of Romantic music, to contemporary genres such as minimalism and electronic music. Timelines, quotes, and color photographs give a voice to this music and the exceptionally gifted individuals who created it. |
| classical music cd guide: All Music Guide to Classical Music Chris Woodstra, Gerald Brennan, Allen Schrott, 2005 Offering comprehensive coverage of classical music, this guide surveys more than eleven thousand albums and presents biographies of five hundred composers and eight hundred performers, as well as twenty-three essays on forms, eras, and genres of classical music. Original. |
| classical music cd guide: A Performer's Guide to the Music of the Classical Period , 2002 |
| classical music cd guide: My First Classical Music Book Genevieve Helsby, 2008-10 My First Classical Music Book is a delightfully colorful introduction to classical music, designed to fire the imagination of children aged 5-7 years. Readers are asked to think about the different places in which we might hear music. Then, each of the major composers and musical instrument families are introduced and brought to life in a vivid and enchanting way. Throughout the book, children are referred to the accompanying audio CD so that they can hear examples as they read. This is the most exceptional book of its kind, providing an absorbing experience for both eyes and ears. |
| classical music cd guide: The Rest Is Noise Alex Ross, 2007-10-16 Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music. |
| classical music cd guide: The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection Theodore Libbey, 1994 Recommends the best recordings of the three hundred most important classical works, and provides background information on each composer |
| classical music cd guide: Classical Music Julian Johnson, 2009-09 What does classical music mean to the Western World? How has it transformed over the centuries? This book examines how music is related to some of the big ideas of Western experience including spirituality, emotion, the weight of history, and self identity. |
| classical music cd guide: Classical Recording Caroline Haigh, John Dunkerley, Mark Rogers, 2020-10-26 Classical Recording: A Practical Guide in the Decca Tradition is the authoritative guide to all aspects of recording acoustic classical music. Offering detailed descriptions, diagrams, and photographs of fundamental recording techniques such as the Decca tree, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the essential skills involved in successfully producing a classical recording. Written by engineers with years of experience working for Decca and Abbey Road Studios and as freelancers, Classical Recording equips the student, the interested amateur, and the practising professional with the required knowledge and confidence to tackle everything from solo piano to opera. |
| classical music cd guide: Classical Music Duncan Clark, 2001 Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews. |
| classical music cd guide: Friendly Guide to Music Darren Henley, 2006 A friendly, jargon-free introduction to the music played on Classic FM to accompany the radio series presented by Tony Robinson, with a CD of excerpts from the most popular pieces in the Classic FM 'Hall of Fame'. |
| classical music cd guide: The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Classical Music Timothy K. Smith, 2002-08-06 For the beginner or the devotee—it's everything the classical music buff needs to know. The major composers from Bach and Bartok to Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky Significant performers from Maurice Andre and Leornard Bernstein to Georg Solti and Yo Yo Ma The landmark works from Appalachian Spring to Don Juan A concise history of classical music A deconstruction of the art form The language of classical music Valuable resources for the Curious Listener |
| classical music cd guide: Big Book of Beginner's Piano Classics Bergerac, David Dutkanicz, 2008 Eighty-three popular piano classics arranged for the beginning student are accompanied by a short history of each piece and advice on playing each arrangement.5NjBwBT |
| classical music cd guide: Music for the People Gareth Malone, 2011 |
| classical music cd guide: 1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die Matthew Rye, Steven Isserlis, 2017-10-24 A thick and informative guide to the world of classical music and its stunning recordings, complete with images from CD cases, concert halls, and of the musicians themselves. |
| classical music cd guide: The Grand Tradition J. B. Steane, 1993 Before the gramophone could do justice to an orchestra, it was able to reproduce the human voice with comparative fidelity. Steane examines the great mass of singing on record and follows the fortunes of modern singers as well as old, in song, opera, and choral singing. This corrected second edition includes a preface and bibliography. |
| classical music cd guide: Thirty Celebrated String Quartets, Volume II Franz Joseph Haydn, Andreas Moser, Hugo Dechert, 1999-08-26 Expertly arranged String Quartets by Franz Joseph Haydn from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Classical era. Op. 3, Nos. 3, 5; Op. 20, Nos. 4, 5, 6; Op. 33, Nos. 2, 3, 6; Op. 64, Nos. 5, 6; Op. 76, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
| classical music cd guide: Classical Music Joe Staines, 1999 THE ROUGH GUIDE to ESSENTIAL CLASSICAL MUSIC CDs is the blueprint for a great record collection. Containing detailed reviews of 100 recordings, from Hildegard of Bingen to Mark-Anthony Turnage, it covers the acknowledged classics and plenty of others that deserve to be. Provocative and right up to date, the Rough Guide is essential reading. |
| classical music cd guide: Compact Disc Guide to Classical Music Douglas C. Brown, 1992 |
| classical music cd guide: A Jussi Björling Phonography Harald Henrysson, 1993 |
| classical music cd guide: The Rough Guide to Classical Music Rough Guides, 2010-05-03 The Rough Guide to Classical Music is the ideal handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. Both a CD buyer's guide and a who's who, the guide includes concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers and informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics. For novices and experts alike, the fully updated fifth edition features contemporary composer Helmut Lachenmann and Widor, the 19th century organ composer of 'Toccata' wedding fame, as well as dozens more works added for existing composers. You'll find an new 'Top 10's' section with accessible introductory listings including the Top 10 operas and the Top 10 symphonies plus new essay boxes on topics such as Baroque - a style or a period? and The clarinet comes of age. The Rough Guide to Classical Music features fresh and incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the very best of the latest recordings and reissues as well as more than 150 illustrations of composers and performers, including a rare archive of photos. |
| classical music cd guide: The Essential Canon of Classical Music David Dubal, 2003-10-24 Identifies almost two hundred forty composers whose works are most important to an understanding of classical music, with essays on sixty of the most significant. Presented in chronological order for the Medieval, Renaissance, and Elizabethan ages, the age of the Baroque, the age of Classicism, the Romantic age, and the age of Modernism. |
| classical music cd guide: Listen to the Birds Ana Gerhard, Cecilia Varela, 2013 Provides an introduction to classical music, describing how birds have inspired composers throughout history, and includes a musical glossary and short biographies of the composers. |
| classical music cd guide: The Classical Guitarist's Guide to Jazz Andrew York, Nathaniel Gunod, 2010 Guitarist and composer Andrew York presents the ultimate guide to jazz for classical guitarists. The first two sections of this three-part book cover jazz harmony and chord/melody, focusing on comping, chord voicings, voice leading, and arranging for solo guitar. Part three looks at improvisation, which may be the most exciting---yet foreign---aspect of jazz for classical guitarists. York shows you that improvisation is a skill that can be learned and practiced just like any other. By practicing the ear training and visualization exercises in this book, you will learn how to turn the music you hear in your mind's ear into imaginative, great-sounding jazz solos. The CD contains the exercises and examples performed by the author. |
| classical music cd guide: The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2012 James Jolly, 2011 With over 1,400 pages of reviews, The Gramophone Classical Music Guide 2012 is the ultimate companion for classical music enthusiasts. Drawn from Gramophone magazine's panel of unrivaled critics, the book arms the reader with reviews of 3,000 recommended classical recordings to suit any taste. Also features an essay on the 1,000 year history of classical music, a guide to downloading, 100 brand new recommended recordings, a suggested basic library and a list of Gramophone's recordings of the year. |
| classical music cd guide: Classical Music Joe Staines, 1999 |
| classical music cd guide: The Lives of the Great Composers Harold C. Schonberg, 1981-01-01 Biographies of the important composers from Monteverdi and Bach to Bartok and Webern are designed to show the history of music. |
| classical music cd guide: The Classical Good CD & DVD Guide , 2006 |
| classical music cd guide: Sourcebook for Research in Music, Third Edition Allen Scott, 2015-06-01 Since it was first published in 1993, the Sourcebook for Research in Music has become an invaluable resource in musical scholarship. The balance between depth of content and brevity of format makes it ideal for use as a textbook for students, a reference work for faculty and professional musicians, and as an aid for librarians. The introductory chapter includes a comprehensive list of bibliographical terms with definitions; bibliographic terms in German, French, and Italian; and the plan of the Library of Congress and the Dewey Decimal music classification systems. Integrating helpful commentary to instruct the reader on the scope and usefulness of specific items, this updated and expanded edition accounts for the rapid growth in new editions of standard works, in fields such as ethnomusicology, performance practice, women in music, popular music, education, business, and music technology. These enhancements to its already extensive bibliographies ensures that the Sourcebook will continue to be an indispensable reference for years to come. |
| classical music cd guide: The Virgin Guide to Classical Music Jeremy J. Beadle, 1993 If you want listening to music to be a pleasure; if you want to know the six pieces of Bach which will give you the best grip on his work; if you were born to Brahm's Lullaby or first met Turandot on the terraces, The Virgin Guide to Classical Music is the first genuinely no-nonsense, plain-talking, entertaining guide to the music, the performers and the recordings. |
| classical music cd guide: The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Cassettes Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, 1996 The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs maintains its pre-eminence as the largest and most comprehensive survey of classical music on CD ever published: an indispensable guide for music lovers.Major recordings of each work are listed under their composers, who are arranged alphabetically. The authors evaluate the interpretation and performance, assess which is the most truthful recording and offer advice on the best value for money.Revised and updated for this edition, the Guide includes re-mastered vintage recordings and many historic performances now transferred to CD. From the highest-quality -- and premium-priced -- offerings to the latest budget releases, The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs is an essential reference work to help you select the very best of recorded music on offer today. |
| classical music cd guide: The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music , 2008 |
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