Download or read book The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs & DVDs written by Ivan March and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDsis the largest and most comprehensive survey of classical music on digital audio and video discs ever published. It covers thousands of recordings, offering candid evaluation of their relative artistic and technical merits, highlighting notable performances, and pinpointing the best buys. This guide takes into account the many hundreds of new and reissued CDs and DVDs that have appeared in recent years while also including all the major recordings of each work-from remastered vintage recordings to the latest releases. This essential reference work is designed to help select the very best video and music discs available today.