The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection

Theodore Libbey (aka Ted Libbey)

ISBN 10: 156305051X / ISBN 13: 9781563050510

Published by Workman Pub Co, 1994

About this Item

The book, the Stated First Printing, begins with two beautiful pages written by one of the great musicians of the 20th century, cellist, Mstislav Rostropovich. He expresses his own joy as having spent so much of his life close to and making music. His theory for listeners is an open heart. Libbey offers a guide to finding the composite the how-to collect classical music on CD. 498 pages most of the pages have been dog-eared at some point and then, returned to straight. Clean no marginalia.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1712158738901

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection
• Publisher: Workman Pub Co
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156305051X
• ISBN 13: 9781563050510
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mass Media Communications

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Synopsis

In his guide, National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes listeners by the hand through the classical repertory to build a music library. Now, five year after its original publication - with five years of new performances to consider, new releases to review, reissues to re-evaluate - Mr Libbey has revised and updated this book.

From the Back Cover

Where Do You Go After Mozart's Jupiter? After Bach's Brandenburg Concertos? After Beethoven's Third?

In this informed and indispensable guide, now in a second edition featuring a hundred new recordings, National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes you by the hand through the classical repertory and helps you build an essential CD collection. Not just another rating book, this is a foremost expert's thoughtful and entertaining appreciation--work by work, performer by performer, recording by recording--of the symphonies, concertos, chamber pieces, keyboard works, sacred works, and operas that belong in every music lover's library. It includes the core 20 works for starting out, recommendations especially suited for young listeners, and an appendix listing additional works, beyond those covered in the first edition, that the author feels most passionate about.

PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:

"I have been lost in this book for a week...Libbey('s) comparisons are wonders of lucidity, differentiation, and those 'open ears' Rostropovich spoke of." --Chicago Tribune

"An extensive guide and perfect companion to the basic classical repertory." --Digby Diehl, Playboy Magazine