Dimensions
156 x 240 x 31mm
'Maestros, Masterpieces And Madness' is an original, enjoyable and revealing account of how a random alliance of engineers, entrepreneurs, conductors and fixers invented a new medium containing the entire back catalogue of Western civilization: classical recording.
The huge array of masterpieces they recorded, now safely digitalized, will last forever. They brought a form of music previously restricted particular places and people of wealth to millions of fans around the world. But they also created a mountain of schlock, schmaltz, ego-trips and inconceivably misguided projects. And it all came to an end when the dawn of the internet and the onset of corporate insanity conspired substantially to shut down the industry.
