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Title: Terrible Revision!
Review: The Gramaphone 2000 is radically different from its predecessors, and entirely for the worst. First, it has far fewer works than its competitor, the Penguin Guide 2000. Also, several features from earlier Gramophone guides have been dropped. There are no longer "alternative selections" -- just the 2 or 3 that the Gramophone editors prefer. So, if you want to know whether a certain recording is a well regarded one, you're out of luck unless its one of the 2 or 3 Gramophone lists. So, there's nothing to help you differentiate most excellent recordings from the rest (and there are far more than 2-3 excellent recordings of most classical music peices). Also, there are no "G" ratings. In previous editions, recordings would also be given 1, 2, or 3 "G"s in order to indicate the level of regard the authors held a good recording in. Finally, the "Gramophone 100" listings are gone. As a final sad footnote, the "beginner's" library can only be called a joke.
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