Penguin Guide To Classical Music Cd's

[Motzart]

This one of my favorite books for collecting Classical Music Cd's.
Gives you a guide to Collecting The best rated Classical Music CD's out there.
This has been my favorite since day one.....my 1st copy which I still own...1990 has been crucial to my Classical Music venture.

Last night I bought the latest copy 2009 at our local Barnes and Noble which covers DVD and SACD format.
Barnes and Noble and Amazon both carry this book.....@ $20-$30 it's worth every penny!!

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Penguin's site says this about it....

"This has remained the best and most successful guide to classical music for more than forty years. Fully revised by its team of eminent authors and written with wit and passion, The Penguin Guide to Recorded Classical Music offers reviews of all the latest releases as well as the finest established recordings. It also includes an overview of the greatest historic performances, major period instrument recordings, an in-depth survey of the best of the budget-priced CDs, and the core collection of 100 handpicked, must-have CDs. Now published annually for the first time, this book is essential reading for every serious classical music fan."

Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Penguin-Guide-Recorded-Classical-Music/dp/0141033355

Barnes and Noble
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Penguin-Guide-to-Recorded-Classical-Music/Ivan-March/e/9780141033358

Just thought I'd share this for any of you who are a serious Classical Music CD Collector like I have been for many years.
Or would like to get started in a fun hobby that will enhance the pleasure of your hard earned Audio warez! :)

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[fatchowmein]

Another good source is The Omnibus Essential Guide to Classical CDs. It's a bit old with a 2004 date but if you tend towards dumpster diving at the clearance section or used book store, this is wonderful guide. In fact, I picked it up new for $7 at Half Priced Books.

http://www.amazon.com/Omnibus-Essential-Guide-Classical-CDs/dp/0825673070/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234611538&sr=1-1

You can never have too many guides. :D

[Lsi9]

Here is one that someone reccommended to me: The NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection : The 350 Essential Works

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[Motzart]

Kewl!
So there are other books.....dunno how often they update em?
There are so many new CD releases every year it's hard to keep up! :D

[John K.]

Yeah, Jim; there're quite a few classical CD review guides which have been fairly recently published. This Amazon page (http://www.amazon.com/best-guides-classical-music-print/lm/1E7XSS4ZL72PY/) has a useful list with one man's brief personal evaluations. Besides Penguin(which I have and consider to be the most useful overall), the leading volume published annually is probably The Gramophone Classical Music Guide. I've seen most of these at various local libraries.

As to online sources, entering a topic such as "classical CD reviews" into Google turns up some interesting sites. We've already discussed Classics Today, which I check almost daily for new reviews. Another site is Gramophone Magazine here (http://www.gramophone.co.uk/), which has numerous features, including a searchable Review section. An interesting new feature that the Gramophone archive here (http://www.gramophone.net/)is now offering is online access to over 1000 issues(not including the three most current for non-subscribers) from their 85 years of publishing.

[Motzart]

Yeah, Jim; there're quite a few classical CD review guides which have been fairly recently published. This Amazon page (http://www.amazon.com/best-guides-classical-music-print/lm/1E7XSS4ZL72PY/) has a useful list with one man's brief personal evaluations. Besides Penguin(which I have and consider to be the most useful overall), the leading volume published annually is probably The Gramophone Classical Music Guide. I've seen most of these at various local libraries.

As to online sources, entering a topic such as "classical CD reviews" into Google turns up some interesting sites. We've already discussed Classics Today, which I check almost daily for new reviews. Another site is Gramophone Magazine here (http://www.gramophone.co.uk/), which has numerous features, including a searchable Review section. An interesting new feature that the Gramophone archive here (http://www.gramophone.net/)is now offering is online access to over 1000 issues(not including the three most current for non-subscribers) from their 85 years of publishing.

Thanx for the info John!
As usual your a virtual wealth of Classical Music information!
You ever think of writing a book? :D

[Johnmark2]

I have been looking for some good collection of Classical Music records guide, thanks for the good resource information "Mozart" this will certainly help me in improving my classical base.

[hearingimpared]

^^^^reported.

[hearingimpared]

I'm looking for one that lists LPs.