The Rough Guide to Classical Music 3 (Rough Guide Music Guides)

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Rough Guides, 2001

1858287219 / 9781858287218

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Photos included in listing. About the book INTRODUCTION Though few of them make much effort to entice a new audience to their product, the recording companies continue to pour out a flood of classical music. The catalogue of current classical CDs runs to more than two and half thousand tightly packed pages, and lists nearly three hundred composers before reaching the second letter of the alphabet. An average month sees some four hundred recordings and re-issues added to the pile. The Rough Guide to Classical Music attempts to make sense of this overwhelming volume of music, giving you the information that’s essential whether you’re starting from the beginning or have already begun exploring. As well as being a buyer’s guide to CDs, this book is a who’s who of classical music, ranging from Hildegard of Bingen, one of the great figures of eleventh-century European culture, to Thomas Adès, born in London in 1971. Of course we’ve had to be selective, both with the composers and with their output – Domenico Scarlatti, for example, was a fascinating musician, but no book of this scope could do justice to each of his five hundred keyboard sonatas. Gaetano Donizetti wrote more than seventy operas, but you wouldn’t want to listen to all of them. We’ve gone for what we think are the best works by the most interesting composers, mixing some underrated people with the big names, and highlighting some we think you should keep an eye on. When it comes to CDs the situation requires even greater ruthlessness. Beethoven may have written only nine symphonies, but there are more than one hundred versions of the fifth in the catalogue, and scores of recordings of all the others. Several of these CDs should never have been issued – they are there simply because any up-and-coming conductor has to make a Beethoven recording as a kind of calling card, regardless of any aptitude for the music. However, a fair proportion of the Beethoven CDs are worth listening to, because a piece of music as complex as a Beethoven symphony will bear as many different readings as a Shakespeare play. Although there are recordings that stand head and shoulders above the competition, no performance can be described as definitive, which is one reason why we have often recommended more than one account of a work. Whereas all our first-choice CDs make persuasive cases for the music, some of the additional recommendations are included because they make provocative counter-arguments. Where price is a consideration, we’ve also listed a lower-cost alternative whenever appropriate – thus we might suggest a mid-price boxed set of symphonies as an alternative to buying them as full-price individual CDs. Finally, in many instances we’ve picked an outstanding pre-stereo performance as a complement to a modern recording.…

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Titolo
The Rough Guide to Classical Music 3 (Rough Guide Music Guides)
Autore
Rough Guides
Editore
Rough Guides
Anno di pubblicazione
2001
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Molto buono
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Brossura
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1858287219
ISBN 13
9781858287218
Edizione
terza edizione
Peso dell'articolo
1,164 chilogrammi
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17 centimetri di larghezza per 23,4 centimetri di altezza per 3,9 centimetri di profondità
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