Rough Guide to Classical Music – rough guide Direct Beschikbaar

How can anyone cover all of classical music and opera in just 465 pages, including an index? It can’t be done with too much depth, but the Rough Guide team led by Jonathan Buckley has done its best, managing to achieve a reasonable amount of breadth. Of necessity, the entries are brief and the number of recordings examined extremely limited; some of these recommendations do seem odd. It’s a wonder how any guide of this sort could fail to mention the Solti/Decca version of Wagner’s Ring, or the classic Sir N…