Discusses the major works of hundreds of composers from John Adams and Johann Sebastian Bach to Richard Wagner and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and recommends the best recordings
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<b>Jim Svejda,</b> when not exhuming dead conductors or lamenting the decline of standards among living ones on <i>The Record Shelf,</i> critiques cinema on his radio show <i>On Film</i> (KNX Los Angeles). He resides in Sierra Madre, California. <br><i>The Record Shelf</i> is a production of KUSC, the radio station of the University of Southern California, and is distributed by Public Radio International.
as done it again! In this fully revised and expanded edition of <b><i>The Record Shelf Guide to Classical CDs and Audiocassettes,</i></b> the irreverent and opinionated author guides readers to more of the best in classical music.<br>Host of the long-running American Public Radio show<i> The Record Shelf,</i> Svejda has assembled this comprehensive guide alphabetically by composer. Meant to be used as a reference manual, Svejdaa concentrates mainly on what he feels is the classical music people actually <i>listen</i> to most.In his opinion, this consists of music produced from the middle of the eighteenth century to roughly the middle of the twentieth.This book is filled with Svejda's own brand of unusual, acerbic comments and sugary prose. It includes feisty reviews such as ". . . Pachelbel was a third-rate baroque non-entity who occasional rose to the level of second-rate in some of his organ music." And praise of favorites such as Fritz Kreisler, ". . . one of the greates
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