Dimensions
170 x 234 x 39mm
This expanded and updated third edition is a unique handbook, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant to works by contemporaries such as Judith Weir and Wolfgang Rihm.
Both a CD buyer's guide and a who's who, it features:
- Concise biographical sketches of more than 200 composers, explaining their social and musical contexts
- Informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from solo instrumental pieces to operas with casts of hundreds
- Incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the best of the latest recordings and the pick of the reissues
- Lively articles on such topics as sonata form, the concerto, atonality and film music
- More than 150 pictures, including some rarely seen archive photos
