1001 Classical Recordings You Must Hear Before You Die Paperback – October 24, 2017

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I first knew about this book after looking at a list published at a music site (rym dot com). A user took the time to list all of these 1001 recordings ... I used that list often as a reference, but I really wanted to see the book itself, so I checked it out from my local public library. The book is really good, hardcover, beautifully designed. Some have complained about the typo being used. Yes, it is small, but the book is 960 pages long. Bigger typo would have meant more pages, which means more expensive book. Also, the color of the font size, it looks like kind of grey (although it is black). For those with sight problems, I would suggest using magnifying glasses. I did not find this to be a problem at all. The font is beautiful, and well design overall, as I was saying.The selection of recordings is very personal, indeed, and very arguable, which will prevent this book to ever get a 5 star recommendation. It is impossible to make everybody happy, but at least the "leading international critics" who made the selection had the courage to make the actual selection, and here it is ... you may agree, you may not, but at least is a good place to get the conversation started. For many of the recommendations, the authors provide with other three recommended recordings. I'd like to add that when it comes to selections of personal recordings, the choice is always very personal. Let's be fair and not destroy this publication because the selection is at times so far from our own personal tastes. This was published in 2007, so of course many outstanding recordings issued from 2007 until now are not here. For every CD recommended, you have the CD cover, genre, conductor, performers, year recorded, and label. Some CDs occupy one page, while others, half a page. There are many pages that are just beautiful pictures of composers or other images related to the recordings. This is that kind of book you want to show off while having friends over for coffee or tea. There is a short preface, and a short introduction, a title index (works), a glossary of music vocabulary, and a composer index. The book is organized in chronological order, and it contains sevent chapters: 1. Pre-1700; 2. 1700-1760; 3. 1761-1800; 4. 1801-1850; 5. 1851-1900; 6. 1901-1950; 7. 1951-Present.Finally, a question of mine about the title of this book: should it be "hear" or "listen"? Is this a list of the recordings we should hear about, like someone having a conversation about the recording of Britten String Quartets by the Belcea Quartet and we agreeing about it as being an essential recording? Or is that particular recording one we should actually LISTEN to? In other words: "Have you heard about the Belcea Quartet recording of Britten String Quartets? Oh yes indeed! They say it's terrific! I have not listened to it, but yes, everybody agrees it is one of those recordings you should actually listen to."I do recommend this book to all classical music fans, casual or hard core.Thanks for reading, and happy LISTENING !!!

Excellent book.

I bought it as birthday gift for my friend, actually I am not a music fan but my friend is, and he LOVED it. I have been never ever seen him this much excited.the book arrived on time and as it was said it was like new. I really appreciate the seller. :)

Might be good for someone without much knowledge of classical music.

A great list of old favorites and new ones. It's a nice reference to have handy and for building a collection..

The book reviews and recommends CD recordings with little or no grasp of the corpus of music on vinyl (my preferred format). There is a LOT of good information and I keep it around when I can't find anything else or need a recommendation of alternate recordings, but I don't use this as a primary reference; you might though

a good read