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In this informed and indispensable guide, now in a second edition featuring a hundred new recordings, National Public Radio's Ted Libbey takes you by the hand through the classical repertory and helps you build an essential CD collection. Not just another rating book, this is a foremost expert's thoughtful and entertaining appreciation--work by work, performer by performer, recording by recording--of the symphonies, concertos, chamber pieces, keyboard works, sacred works, and operas that belong in every music lover's library. It includes the core 20 works for starting out, recommendations especially suited for young listeners, and an appendix listing additional works, beyond those covered in the first edition, that the author feels most passionate about.
PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:
"I have been lost in this book for a week...Libbey('s) comparisons are wonders of lucidity, differentiation, and those 'open ears' Rostropovich spoke of." --Chicago Tribune
"An extensive guide and perfect companion to the basic classical repertory." --Digby Diehl, Playboy Magazine
Ted graduated cum laude from Yale University as a Yale National Scholar, and during graduate school was appointed assistant conductor of the Stanford University orchestra. He spent a year as director of the Composer/Librettist Program at the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 1988 received the United States Information Agency's Award for Outstanding Service as a consultant for USIA's Artistic Ambassador Program. Ted also composed the score for the award-winning film "Home of Hope," and several of his arrangements have been performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. He frequently lectures in the United States and Europe, and often appears at informative talks across the country.
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