Compact Discs Yearbook 2000/1, the Penguin Guide to

by Ivan March, Robert Layton, Edward Greenfield

A guide to the best CD recordings issued since the 1999 edition of this reference and with detailed coverage of recital and collection CDS. This edition is the ideal supplementary volume to the 1999 edition of the main CD guide and offers reviews of a vast range of recently-issued recordings.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140513825
• ISBN13: 9780140513820
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Invaluable

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.

Superb update of the ultimate CD guide

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.