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Over 400 reviews of classical CDs, SACDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays in this issue!

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This is a fine book. A compendium of biographies of 50 leading composers, it is a worthwhile read and a useful reference. With an instantly recognizable...

For a serious music student or practicing jazz musician with a good grounding in harmony and theory, this book will be a breeze, albeit very instructive...


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All of us under the new editorial policies at Fanfare were asked to read and absorb this book, but since I was chosen to review it...

This hefty volume, the latest in a continuing series, gathers up shortened CD and DVD reviews of the “best” recordings from Gramophone , bolstered with some...

General U. S. Grant supposedly said that he only knew two tunes: one was Yankee Doodle and the other wasn’t. For him, this book would probably...