| gramophone classical good 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. |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good CD and DVD Guide 2005 David Roberts, James Jolly, 2004 The Classical Good CD & DVD Guide contains over 3500 reviews of Classical CDs and DVDs, written by the critics of Gramophone (the world's mostauthoritative classical music magazine), with more recommendations than ever before. |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 2001 Gramophone, 2000 Due to be published in September 2000, this essential guide contains reviews by the world's leading writers on classical music. Whether you're looking for a Mozart symphony or a Turnadge opera, a Liebermann concerto or a Haydn string quartet, the Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide provides you with access to the expertise to ensure that the choices you make are the best possible. With a Suggested Basic Library, ratings for the best discs and over 5,000 reviews, the Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide is the essential buy for anyone interested in classical music. |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: The Gramophone Classical David Mellor, Keith Shadwick, 1996-10-01 |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good Guide 2003 Emma Roach, 2002 This reference includes thousands of reviews by the world's leading critics, making it the ideal guide for lovers of opera, symphonic music, and other classical genre. |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 2002 Gramophone, 2001 Features thousands of reviews by the world's leading critics on classical music. Whether it's buying your first opera, discovering the music of Arvo Part or searching for the best recording of Mahler's Fifth Symphony, you need the Classical Good CD Guide. An invaluable reference tool for anyone interested in classical music on disc, the Guide also includes advice on building a basic library, composer biographies, facts on the greatest works, additional recommendations, suggested further listening and more. Enables you to make the most informed choice from the vast array of classical recordings available today. |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good Guide 2004 Emma Lilley, 2003 Contains over 3,500 reviews of classical CDs and DVDs written by the critics of Gramophone, the world's most authoritative classical music magazine. Each review is clearly rated so that readers can see at a glance the best discs in each repertoire area. This indispensable guide also contains a host of extras designed to appeal to the novice collector, including a suggested basic library, composer biographies, and critics' appraisals of the world's finest musicians. Includes a CD sampler of music by your favorite composers. |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
| gramophone classical good 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 |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good CD and Dvd Guide 2006 Gramophone Publications, 2005 The Classical Good CD & DVD Guide contains over 3500 reviews of Classical CDs and DVDs, written by the critics of Gramophone (the world's most authoritative classical music magazine), with more recommendations than ever before. It also contains a host of extras designed to appeal to the novice and seasoned collector, including composer biographies, recommended repertoire, guides to broadening your listening experience, and an introduction to the world of classical music on CD. |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 1999 Máire Taylor, 1998 A guide to classical music recordings on compact disc, which has been compiled by a panel of reviewers from Gramophone magazine. A rating system is used, highlighting Gramophone Award winners and recordings with exceptionally high quality. |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: Classical Music Duncan Clark, 2001 Sketches of classical composers and CD reviews. |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: The Gramophone Compton Mackenzie, Christopher Stone, 1999 |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: The British Union Catalogue of Music Periodicals John Wagstaff, 2019-07-23 First published in 1998, the aim of this catalogue is to help students, researchers and librarians determine the UK locations of over 2,000 music periodical titles held in public, academic and national libraries. Over 220 libraries in the UK have been surveyed, from St. Austell to Aberdeen, Aberystwyth to Brighton. Each catalogue entry provides detailed information on library holdings, and full bibliographic details of periodical titles, including ISSNs. The main catalogue is preceded by an address list, and by a preface outlining the history of music periodicals in Britain, together with statistical tables. |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: The Faber Pocket Guide to Haydn Richard Wigmore, 2011-02-03 Joseph Haydn is one of the greatest and most innovative of all composers, yet in some ways he is still curiously misunderstood. This engaging new Pocket Guide assesses what Haydn's music means to us today, and challenges some of the myths that have grown up around the composer. With suggestions for further reading and recommended CD recordings, Richard Wigmore's crisp and concise guide presents you with all you need to listen to and enjoy Haydn's music. It explores each of his key works, from his symphonies to his quartets, from his choral works to his sonatas, and invites a new generation of listeners to discover the depth and dazzling ingenuity of this most humane and life-affirming of composers. |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: Gramophone Classical Good CD Guide 1999 Omnibus Press, 1998 This edition is the largest and most comprehensive to date, with thousands of reviews and additional recommendations. The popular rating system is applied to recordings of particular distinction and highlights Gramophone Award winners. |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: The Gramophone Opera Catalogue Philippa Bunting, 1995 Katalog over opera-indspilninger på grammofonplade, kassettebånd, CD, video, laserdisc og minidisc. |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: Selecting Materials for Library Collections Linda S Katz, 2012-12-06 Strategies and tools to help you plan, build, and maintain your library collection! Selecting Materials for Library Collections takes you step-by-step through the process of planning, building, and maintaining a quality library collection. This up-to-date guide addresses the interests and concerns of academic and public libraries with expert advice on budgets, policies, and planning. The book examines print, non-print, and Internet selection resources, including the OCLC WorldCat Database and ACQNET-L. You’ll find valuable information you can apply right away to help you keep any collection relevant and up-to-date! Selecting Materials for Library Collections provides the tools you need to keep your library collection current. Seasoned experts share their thoughts on how to analyze your users’ expectations and then provide them with the materials they need. The contributors also examine the selection aids that they use in their own acquisitions work and then look at how to achieve a balanced collection that efficiently serves their clients’ needs. Supplementary reading lists and extensive bibliographies provide you with additional resources. Selecting Materials for Library Collections presents the latest information on: using print, non-print, and Internet selection resources such as OCLC WorldCat database and ACQNET-L initial collection assessment and decision making collection tool evaluations acquiring international core titles the New Thought movement approval plansset-up, maintenance, and evaluation the newest technology for media selection specialized library collections in music, art, business, economics, health, sports, leisure, and more |
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| gramophone classical good cd guide: The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Dvds Yearbook 2004/5 Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Paul Czajkowski, Robert Layton, 2004 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. |
| gramophone classical good 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 |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Opera on Video Paul Gruber, 1997 Describes the performances and production values of more than three hundred videos of more than one hundred fifty operas, and recommends the best overall video recording for each opera |
| gramophone classical good 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. |
| gramophone classical good cd guide: Setting the Record Straight Colin Symes, 2004-11-29 The words surrounding music influence how we listen to it. |
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