Staines, Joe: Rough Guide To Classical Music

The Rough Guide to Classical Music is the ideal handbook on the subject, spanning a thousand years of music from Gregorian chant via Bach & Beethoven to contemporaries such as Thomas AdŠs & Kaija Saariaho. Both a CD buyer's guide & a who's who, it features: Concise biographical profiles of more than 200 composers, explaining their social & musical contexts; Informative summaries of the major compositions in all genres, from chamber works to operatic epics; Incisive reviews of hundreds of CDs.