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This guide provides a mine of information on recorded jazz. For this expanded sixth edition, Richard Cook and Brian Morton have reassessed each artist's entry and updated the text to incorporate thousands of additional CDs. It is aimed at aficionados and jazz novices alike. Entries include artist biographies, full line-ups and recording information, along with details of labels and catalogue numbers.
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This work is a leading guide to recorded jazz, full of information and often trenchant criticism. For this edition, Richard Cook and Brian Morton have reassessed each artist's entry and updated the text to incorporate thousands of additional CDs. The book contains artist biographies, full line-ups, recording information along with details of labels and catalogue numbers, authoritative critical ratings, and full index of artists. The book should be of interest to aficionados and jazz novices alike.
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In the PENGUIN REFERENCE BOOKS series, the 1999/2000 edition of an annual guide to the recordings of classical music that are available on compact disc.
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A CD consumer guide series offering readers the opportunity to expand their musical horizons. Each book contains a section on musical "linkages" - connecting artists with others employing similar performance and musical styles. This volume focuses on jazz music.
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The second revised edition includes the most recent recordings and forms part of the ongoing survey of classical music on CD. The classical music industry is now so competitive that prices have dropped and a larger repertoire is available at bargain prices. The authors have demonstrated how quality if not always synonymous with high prices.
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This 1995 Yearbook is a supplement ot the current edition of the guide, looking in-depth at new and reissued recordings that have appeared up to the summer of 1995. Focusing on recording quality, value for money and the interpretation and performance of each work, the Guide is compiled alphabetically by composer and lists cassettes where available. The yearbook can also be used independently as a comprehensive appraisal of best buys from the existing recorded repertoire is also included.
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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.
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The audience for opera is growing, and there is a proliferation of new and reissued recordings available on CD. This is opera critic Alan Blyth's personal selection of the best 100 of them, from Britten to Berg, Monteverdi to Mozart and Gounod to Gershwin. He gives an appraisal of each CD selected, and also includes a concise list of alternatives, for readers who prefer vintage recordings or "authentic" performances.
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A complete guide to classical recorded music on compact disc, this edition incorporates the material of the 1989 supplement and reviews of new releases between August 1989 and August 1990.
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The first guide to jazz recordings on CD reviews more than 300 CDs by 80 jazz artists. Essential to jazz aficionados because of the extreme variance in the quality of jazz CD recordings. 45 illustrations and 200 full-color photographs.
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• Composers-- concerts of orchestral and concertante music-- instrumental recitals-- vocal recitals and choral collections.
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The latest complete guide to classical recorded music on CD and cassette. This new edition includes new cassettes.
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