Penguin Guide To Compact Discs Yearbook

The essential companion volume updating Penguin’s most recent CD/DVD guide This yearbook supplements The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs, the largest and most comprehensive survey of classical music on digital audio and video discs ever published. Together, the two books cover thousands of recordings and films, offering candid evaluation of their relative artistic and technical merits, highlighting notable performances, and pinpointing best buys. This yearbook not only reviews the many hundreds of CDs that have appeared since the publication of the main guide in 2005, but it also takes a close look at some of the more unusual areas of the classical music repertoire and includes an extensive section on instrumental concerts and recitals. Designed to help select the very best classical music and video discs available to date, The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Yearbookis an invaluable resource for any classical music lover.

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.

Evaluates and assesses British and American classical recordings currently available on compact discs

A supplement to the current edition of The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and Cassettes, this yearbook looks in depth at new and reissued classical recordings that appeared from the summer of 1994 up to the summer of 1995. Arranged alphabetically by composer, the book evaluates the interpretation and performance of each work, assesses the recording quality, and gives advice on the best values.