The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Yearbook

by Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, Ivan March

The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Yearbook is essential for keeping up to date with the vast range of classical recordings on offer today. The ideal companion to the acclaimed Penguin Guide to Compact Discs, it contains reviews of the many hundreds of CDs issued since the last edition of the main Guide, as well as information on the very best current releases. It surveys some of the more unusual areas of the classical music repertoire and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140515305
• ISBN13: 9780140515305
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

A refreshing change and new musicians presented

This guide, although not thick, provides the reader with information on many of the lesser known and contemporarycomposers, conductors and artists worldwide. Moreover, ingiving ratings, one can find "new blood," rather than strictlyciting the old standards. This is okay but there are other musicians. Sadly, previous editions of Penguin & Gramophonemiss/don't include a lot of them. Don't buy this guide thinking you will have loads of DVDs mentioned. This is excellent for CDs and opens the door for more coverageof classical music DVDs as they appear. Sadly, there area large number of classical music VHS and only perhaps two handsful are mentioned in Gramophone, while Penguinsomehow has bypassed the VHS. Sections included in this guide including "Great Composers of the Twentieth Century" area joy to read. Also there are many pages devoted to recitalsby instruments other than the piano and violin. I highly recommend this book. It is excellent, new anda welcome addition to the literature. Dr. Alan Kardoff, Melbourne FL

COMPLETE AND COMPREHENSIVE UPDATE

As is usual with this series, it is complete, comprehensive, articulate, opinionated, and very, very useful to collectors of classical music on CDs and DVDs.It should be in the library of every collector of classical music on the above-stated media.

An excellent addition...

This 02/03 yearbook, which is designed to keep the biannual Penguin Guide to Classical Music, is similar to its excellent forebears, and even has some improvements. Of particular note is that DVDs are now included with CDs in the ratings rather than being segregated in its own section in back. I would like to see Penguin continue this format when it publishes its 04 guide next year.