The Record Shelf Guide to the Classical Repertoire: An Irreverent, Selective, and Highly Opinionated Recording Guide from the Host of the Record Shelf
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More irreverent, selective, and highly opinionated recording reviews from the host of American Public Radio's The Record Shelf. While traversing the repertoire alphabetically, by composer, Svejda is... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0914629476
ISBN13:9780914629474
Release Date:November 1988
Publisher:Prima Publishing
Length:383 Pages
Weight:0.75 lbs.
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Still the best one-volume annotated Clasical discography
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
By far the most interesting and thorough annotated discography of classical recorded CDs. I came of age listening to Jim Svejda's show on KUSC and found reading his comments about each recording more than entertaining. My well worn (and autographed) copy has served me wellover the years and although Svejda has published other, similar, books this one remains my favorite. With comments like: "Once, when filling out an application for a summer job, on that line next to "other" under the heading of Religion, I wrote Mozart. The personnel officer was not amused, but then, I hadn't intended it as a joke. For there was a time when I was convinced that Mozart was at least as divinely inspired as Moses, Christ, the Buddha, Lao-tzu, or Mohammed, and I suppose I still am. For in no other works of the human imagination can the divine spirit be heard more distinctly than in the miraculous music this often vulger, unpleasant, and difficult man produced during his pathetically brief thirty-five years. Were this book to do him justice, the section devoted to Mozart's music would take up more than half the total pages." How can you possibly go wrong?! Two thumbs waaaay up for this title.
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