Dimensions
170 x 234 x 33mm
'The Rough Guide To Classical Music' is the ideal handbook on the subject, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach and Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas Ades and Kaija Saariaho.
Both a CD buyer's guide and a who's who, it features:
- Concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers, explaining their social and musical contexts
- Informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics
- Incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs, selecting the very best of the latest recordings and the pick of the reissues, plus the lowdown on downloading
- Engaging feature boxes on such topics as notation, conducting, the concerto and film music
- More than 150 pictures of composers and performers, including some rare archive photos
