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Books : The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2009
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The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music 2009 from: Penguin List Price: £30.00 CD-Charts Price: £19.50 You Save: £10.50 (35%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 016 EAN: 9780141033358 ISBN: 0141033355 Label: Penguin Manufacturer: Penguin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1602 Publication Date: September 25, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Studio: Penguin Sales Rank: 2178 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Too many omissions but still the bibleI have to agree with the previous two reviewers. I have been buying the Penguin Guide since the early 1980s and have become increasingly disappointed. I also bought the 2008 edition and hoped that important recordings that had been omitted would be included. Abbados Mahler 6 and 7 recordings with the Berlin PO- surely among the primary recommendations and cornerstones of my collection- are omitted! And what about Simon Rattles recording of Szymanowskis Harnasie? And Chailly's wonderful Leipzig recordings of the Mahler editions of Schumann's symphonies- not everyone's taste I know- but perhaps the most frequently played of all my new CDs in the past year. I also wonder whether the reviewers hearing is quite what it used to be. I invested ... Read More: Rating: - Slight improvement, sloppy editingI reviewed the previous edition and remarked on the poor editing. There has been a slight improvement here but not enough to save the Guide from a so-so rating. Some CDs are noted but not rated, the text has not been updated so that "recent releases" are sometimes 10 years old and some new releases are bizarrely ignored altogether. This is the last edition I will ever invest in. I suggest that other readers think very carefully before they part with their cash. Rating:  - If you have the 2008 guide, don't waste your money on thisWhen the 2008 Penguin Guide appeared, I wrote that the main problem was the sheer number of good CDs omitted. I had hoped that with the 2009 Guide, important releases missed out previously would be included. Not a chance. As I browsed through this latest edition, I kept thinking 'but this is the same as the 2008 edition'!. I got the previous Guide out, and there is precious little difference. All those excellent classical CDs and SACDs released over the last twelve months - so few reviewed. Just to give a couple of examples; there has been an avalanche of fine Shostakovich recordings over the last year. How many make it into the Guide? Five. Take Mahler symphonies- there's always a steady stream of recommendable new releases; ... Read More: |
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