The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2008 - Softcover

March, Ivan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141033363 ISBN 13: 9780141033365

Publisher: Penguin, 2007

Synopsis

This 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. Plus the greatest historic performances; plus the major period instrument recordings; plus an in-depth survey of the best of the budget-priced CDs; plus the 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

About this title

Review:

`The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2008 shuns artist-driven CDs, compilations and work outside the classical canon, recommending only the crème de la crème and ignoring the clots'
-- The Independent

About the Author:

Ivan March is a well-known lecturer, journalist and writer in the world of recorded music. He lives in London, SW6. Edward Greenfield was for forty years on the staff of the Guardian and is a regular BBC broadcaster. He lives in London, E1. Robert Layton is a journalist and broadcaster. He lives in London, NW6.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0141033363
• ISBN 13: 9780141033365
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1602
• Editor: Greenfield Edward, Layton Robert