The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Yearbook 2006/07 Edition (Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music)
by Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton, Ivan March
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Author: Edward Greenfield, Ivan March, Robert LaytonEditor: Ivan March
Edition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-12-26
ISBN: 0141027231
Number of pages: 768
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Book Reviews of The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs Yearbook 2006/07 Edition (Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music)
Book Review: Again, Some Reservations
Summary: 3 Stars
Again, here, as with my review of the "Guide" itself (odd years is this Guide, even years are the Update), I find that I no longer feel as I did years ago about this book.
I sadly feel that the beginner with collecting classical music needs a smaller, not so expensive book and supplement every other year, as this is. This book, like the guide, years ago was much simpler, and was easily recommendable to the novice music collector. I cannot review this supplement (and the Guide) anymore for the general music buying public, as I feel it no longer serves all equally. It has become a guide, I feel, for the more experienced listener/collector, and that is OK, but the beginner, I feel is wasting his/her money on these guides.
Where to tell them to seek help? I'm not really sure, but I suggest perhaps the Rough Guide to Classical Music, and perhaps the NPR Guide.... I feel that basically the top 100 list on the first pages of the Penguin Guides are all the beginner will really need for a few years, why waste $45 on these two books?????
Sorry to sound negative, I really don't mean to, but I cannot see that these books serve the "general" music public. ~operabruin
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