Mozart Discovery is a two-CD package put out by EMI Classics, a combination of music and education that relies on EMI's back catalog for the music, but ties it all together with a handsomely illustrated, 100-page booklet featuring notes by BBC Radio 3 producer Lindsay Kemp. EMI has tried interactive formats before only to fail, most memorably in the notoriously unsuccessful Classical Music for Dummies series in the 1990s. Mozart Discovery is a quite different animal from "Dummies" as it is considerably more user friendly, ...
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Mozart Discovery is a two-CD package put out by EMI Classics, a combination of music and education that relies on EMI's back catalog for the music, but ties it all together with a handsomely illustrated, 100-page booklet featuring notes by BBC Radio 3 producer Lindsay Kemp. EMI has tried interactive formats before only to fail, most memorably in the notoriously unsuccessful Classical Music for Dummies series in the 1990s. Mozart Discovery is a quite different animal from "Dummies" as it is considerably more user friendly, the notes are extremely well written, and these will easily make sense to anyone who might take an interest in Mozart, his life, his talents, and his work. The notes appear in three languages, which make the book a bit heftier than it might have been, but this makes room for more illustrations, a perfectly acceptable trade-off. Most of the recordings are older ones, dating from the late analog/early digital period, and by no means do these represent the very best that is out there in...
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