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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2 cover
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BELA BARTOK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bartok: Violin Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsodies Nos. 1 & 2
Kyoko Takezawa (violin) / London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas
[ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / CD - released 1/Jun/1993 ]
Born in Ōbu, Aichi, she started her training in Japan as a part of the Suzuki Method program and was part of a tour of the United States. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School (1989) where her teacher was Dorothy DeLay.
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Impromptus cover
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FRANZ SCHUBERT
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schubert: Impromptus
Murray Perahia (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 13/Nov/1983 ]
Recorded at Vanguard Studios, New York City on 22-23 November 1982 (tracks 1 to 4), and at 30th Street Studio, New York City on18 December 1980 (tracks 5 to 8).
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 1 - 4 (K37, 39, 40, 41) cover
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W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 1 - 4 (K37, 39, 40, 41)
Murray Perahia (piano and conductor) / English Chamber Orchestra
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 1/May/1991 ]
"...wonderfully refreshing and delicate, with diamond bright articulation, urgently youthful in its resilience... Faithful, well-balanced recording." - The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs
Nathalie Stutzmann sings Schumann cover
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ROBERT SCHUMANN
Nathalie Stutzmann sings Schumann
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Inger Södergren (piano), Catherine Collard (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ]
"The French contralto Nathalie Stutzmann's voice is a magnificent instrument with a range that must stretch a good three octaves; the bass of her tessitura is profound and resonant, and her top notes are steady and impeccably modulated." Classical-music
Charles Gerhardt conducts Classic Film Scores cover
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HERRMANN / NEWMAN / KORNGOLD / TIOMKIN / ROZSA / WAXMAN
Charles Gerhardt conducts Classic Film Scores
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Gerhardt, with Kiri te Kanawa (soprano) & Norma Procter (contralto)
[ RCA Red Seal / Sony music Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ]
In the 1970s, the Classic Film Scores series introduced a new generation to the sumptuous sound of music in Hollywood's "Golden Age."
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / Marche Slave / Romeo and Juliet / Capriccio Italien / Hamlet / Symphonies cover
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / Marche Slave / Romeo and Juliet / Capriccio Italien / Hamlet / Symphonies
New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
[ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ]
"The 1812 Overture in particular (has) a freshenss and exultancy notable even among the best of the other high-powered versions...the sound is thrillingly vivid throughout." (High Fidelity)
The Best of the 3 Tenors cover
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VERDI / PUCCINI / BIZET / WAGNER / LEONCAVALLO
The Best of the 3 Tenors
Placido Domingo / Luciano Pavarotti / Jose Carreras / various conductors
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2011 ]
Here they are! The greatest tenor lineup in the world in a special programme of popular tenor arias and duets.
Mahler: The Complete Symphonies / Das Lied von der Erde [12 CD set] cover
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: The Complete Symphonies / Das Lied von der Erde [12 CD set]
René Kollo (tenor), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) / New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
[ Sony Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ]
"All performances are remastered from the original tapes with a plausible claim that they have never sounded better. Such vigour and transparence! Such joyous heartbreak! And 48 minutes of Mahler reminiscences to boot." The Sunday Times
Robert Stolz in Vienna : Waltzes, Marches, Polkas, etc cover
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ZIEHRER / LEHAR / LANNER / STOLZ / STRAUSS FAMILY
Robert Stolz in Vienna : Waltzes, Marches, Polkas, etc
Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Robert Stolz
[ RCA Red Seal / Sony music Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 3/Dec/2017 ]
Robert Stolz was operetta royalty, and his recordings with the Berliner Symphoniker and Wiener Symphoniker document the world of light orchestral music with unique authority. Across 12 CDs, this Sony Classical Masters collection brings together...
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tokyo String Quartet plays Beethoven [9 CD set] cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Tokyo String Quartet plays Beethoven [9 CD set]
Tokyo String Quartet
[ Sony Classical Masters / 9 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2012 ]
"I doubt whether quartet playing comes much better than in this Tokyo set of the Op. 18. Quite frankly I don't think that you can go far wrong with this set: the playing is unfailingly alive, sensitive and poised." (Gramophone)
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Flute Concertos cover
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons / Flute Concertos
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) / Members of the Orchestre National de France, I Soloisti Veneti, Lorin Maazel (violin/director), Claudio Scimone
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 4/Apr/2011 ]
Vivaldi's most popular work is accompanied by three Flute Concertos performed by Jean-Pierre Rampal.
William Masselos - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection [7 CD set] cover
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IVES / COPLAND / DELLO JOIO / SATIE / BOWLES / etc
William Masselos - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection [7 CD set]
William Masselos (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 7/Aug/2020 ]
Sony Classical's William Masselos Edition on 7 newly mastered and transferred CDs is a re- lease for which devotees of American piano music have long been clamouring. At last, the wait is over
Pierre Boulez conducts Berlioz (Incls 'Symphonie fantastique & Les Nuits d'ete) cover
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Pierre Boulez conducts Berlioz (Incls 'Symphonie fantastique & Les Nuits d'ete)
Yvonne Minton (mezzo-soprano) Stuart Burrows (tenor) / New York Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Pierre Boulez
[ Sony Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ]
Sony Classical is now making available all of their Berlioz recordings conducted by Pierre Boulez. All at a very attractive price. The recordings have all been remastered and remixed, and the box set is available at budget price.
Mozart: Piano sonatas 10, 11, 16 / Fantasia K475 / Rondo K511 cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano sonatas 10, 11, 16 / Fantasia K475 / Rondo K511
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ]
"She is sharply responsive, to the variety of mood and texture in the opening variations of K331..her fine shading and shaping of detail in the Adagio variation where, as at other points on this disc, she adds her own discreet ornamentation in...
Anner Bylsma plays Concertos and Ensemble Works [6 CD set] cover
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VIVALDI / BOCCHERINI / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / SERVAIS / FRANCHOMME
Anner Bylsma plays Concertos and Ensemble Works [6 CD set]
Anner Bylsma (cello) with Tafelmusik, L'Archibudelli, Collegium Aureum, etc
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2014 ]
"Anner Bylsma is a tremendous enthusiast, whose high spirits and nervous energy never fail to manifest themselves in his performances." (Gramophone)
Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 cover
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Arthur Rubinstein (piano) / New Symphony Orchestra of London / Symphony of the Air
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ]
"The result is wonderfully exciting. This is a really superb account of this lovely music." (Gramophone)
Arthur Rubinstein: The Chopin Collection (10 CDs special price) cover
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Arthur Rubinstein: The Chopin Collection (10 CDs special price)
Arthur Rubinstein (piano) with New Symphony Orchestra & Symphony of the Air
[ Sony Classical Masters / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2011 ]
"The florid gusto of Rubinstein's playing may not suit modern tastes, but he is clearly engaged with his material, rendering such considerations meaningless; and at his best, he is breathtaking." the Independent
The Secret Fauré 3: Sacred Vocal Works cover
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Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 (5 CD set) cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 (5 CD set)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2012 ]
"The recording is atmospheric in the Boston manner, and with Dynagroove makes even small machines give an impression of opulence." (Gramophone on the LP release)
Byron Janis: The RCA Recordings 1950 - 1959 [5 CD set] cover
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CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / BEETHOVEN / etc
Byron Janis: The RCA Recordings 1950 - 1959 [5 CD set]
Byron Janis (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
[ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2016 ]
Byron Janis has been called one of the most exciting and dynamic American pianists to emerge on the post-war scene. All of his RCA recordings, dating from 1947 to 1959, are collected in the new 5-CD set.
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss (5 CDs) cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss (5 CDs)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, with Antonio Janiqro (cello) Bryon janis (piano) Inqu Borkh (soprano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
"These were the first stereo sessions the RCA engineers arranged with Fritz Reiner. The RCA recording team 'got it right' from the very beginning. Reiner achieves an admirable balance and whatever he does is convincing." Rosette (Penguin Stereo Guide)
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Nielsen cover
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CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Nielsen
Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ]
The second core cycle of symphonic works in this Masters Series comes from the 20th century. The six masterful symphonies by Nielsen with the Swedish Radio Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, "performances of great thrust and unflagging energy,...
Tchaikovsky: The 6 Symphonies / The Nutcracker Suite / Romeo and Juliet / The Tempest / etc cover
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: The 6 Symphonies / The Nutcracker Suite / Romeo and Juliet / The Tempest / etc
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
"Romeo & Juliet played by Chicago SO is one of the most exciting and powerfully moving accounts on record, and the sound is sumptuous and every part of the score is articulated and vividly captured." 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before...
George Szell conducts Dvorak & Smetana cover
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ANTONIN DVOARK / BEDRICH SMETANA
George Szell conducts Dvorak & Smetana
The Cleveland Orchestra, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, George Szell
[ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 5/Jun/2019 ]
"George Szell's Dvorák performances feature his customary blend of razor sharp orchestral discipline allied to a wholly idiomatic, singing line..Indispensable!" ClassicsToday Dvorak Symphonies
Gershwin: An American in Paris / Rhapsody in Blue (with works by Bernstein) cover
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: An American in Paris / Rhapsody in Blue (with works by Bernstein)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (piano/conductor)
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2011 ]
"Mr. Bernstein is not only brilliant where brilliance is called for but he is supremely affectionate in the improvisatory passages and gives the impression of thoroughly enjoying himself, one that is by no means common." (Gramophone on Rhapsody in Blue)
Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Beethoven cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Beethoven
English Chamber Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, with Éva Marton (soprano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ]
"Ormandy's reading generates excitement through exact accentuation as well as vibrant instrumental color and striking ensemble balances. You'd expect to hear the piano clearly at the start of the first-movement development section, but it makes a...
Kissin plays Liszt cover
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FRANZ LISZT
Kissin plays Liszt
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ]
A dazzling selection of Liszt performances - the great virtuoso pianist of the nineteenth century interpreted by a pianist in the Russian virtuosi tradition.
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1 - 7 / Karelia Overture & Suite / Violin Concerto / etc cover
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1 - 7 / Karelia Overture & Suite / Violin Concerto / etc
Finnish Radio Symphony, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, with Joseph Swensen (violin)
[ Sony / RCA / Finlandia / 8 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ]
"His tempos grab and hold the listener, and the orchestra plays with a sure sense of style. The brasses are incisive, the woodwinds reedy and a bit nasal, the strings strident or cushioning, all as appropriate." New York Times
Glenn Gould plays Beethoven [6 CD set] cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Glenn Gould plays Beethoven [6 CD set]
Glenn Gould, piano
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2011 ]
"Gould had a distinctive range of personae where the Beethoven was concerned. (his 3rd is a) studiously intense, intimately scaled studio recording Gould made with Leonard Bernstein in 1959." (Gramophone on the 3rd piano Concerto)
Glenn Gould - The Bach Box (The Remastered Columbia Recordings) cover
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J. S. BACH
Glenn Gould - The Bach Box (The Remastered Columbia Recordings)
Glenn Gould (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 30 CD Box Set - released 7/Aug/2020 ]
This stunning set is packed in a cube-shaped box and includes facsimile LP and CD Sleeves, a 240 page hardcover book featuring complete original liner notes (many penned by Gould himself) and an introductory essay by Michael Stegemann.
Pinchas Zukerman plays Vivaldi cover
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Pinchas Zukerman plays Vivaldi
Pinchas Zukerman (violin & conductor) with Isaac Stern (violin) / Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
[ Sony RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2018 ]
Violinist-conductor Pinchas Zukerman recorded many of Vivaldi's best-loved concertos for CBS/Sony, with the English Chamber Orchestra in the 1970s and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in the 1980s, when he served as that ensemble's music director and...
Hilary Hahn: The Complete Sony Recordings cover
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BACH / BEETHOVEN / BERNSTEIN / BARBER / MEYER / BRAHMS / etc
Hilary Hahn: The Complete Sony Recordings
Hilary Hahn (violin) with various orchestras
[ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2015 ]
"Spellbinding...there is mastery in every silken phrase, every poised lyrical phrase...an object lesson in beautiful violin playing." Chicago Tribune (for Mendelssohn / Shostakovich)
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection cover
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TCHAIKOSVKY / BRAHMS / SHOSTAKOVICH / SIBELIUS / HANDEL / RIMSKY KORSAKOV / etc
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection
Isaac Stern (violin) William Kincaid (flute) Anthony Gigliotti (clarinet) Gary Graffman (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
[ Sony RCA Original Masters / 88 CD Box Set - released 17/Nov/2023 ]
The Sony label now presents Eugene Ormandy's stereo recordings from Philadelphia containing all recordings released from 1958 to 1963 (plus some fillers from later years).
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies cover
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 7/Nov/2011 ]
"This 1989 performance of the Hungarian Rhapsodies that Liszt (and his assistants) orchestrated has stunning sonics; Mehta conjures highly idiomatic performances out of the Israel Phil." BBC Music
James Galway plays Flute Concertos [12 CD set] cover
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MERCADANTE / MOZART / DEVIENNE / CIMAROSA / BACH / VIVALDI / etc
James Galway plays Flute Concertos [12 CD set]
James Galway (flute) / I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone / The Academy of St Martins in the Fields. Sir Neville Marriner, with Marisa Robles (harp)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
The Man With the Golden Flute, Sir James Galway, is featured in these classic recordings, with harpist Marisa Robles and clarinetist Sabine Meyer.
Jascha Heifetz plays Beethoven [7 CD set] cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz plays Beethoven [7 CD set]
Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Emanuel Feuermann (cello) William Primrose (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ]
"Heifetz gives an altogether admirable performance of the Beethoven, alike assured and restrained; and he is sensitively accompanied by the Boston orchestra." (Gramophone)
Jascha Heifetz plays Great Violin Concertos [6 CD set] cover
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BRAHMS / BACH / BRUCH / MOZART / PROKOFIEV / ROZSA / etc
Jascha Heifetz plays Great Violin Concertos [6 CD set]
Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Erick Friedman (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello) & William Primrose (viola)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
This new compilation assembles violinist Jascha Heifetz's landmark stereo recordings of some of the greatest violin concertos with an equally distinguished selection of guest artists including legendary cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Sir Malcolm Sargent...
Jean-Pierre Rampal - The Complete CBS Masterworks Recordings cover
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MOZART / VIVALDI / BOLLING / TELEMANN / HAYDN / BACH FAMILY / etc
Jean-Pierre Rampal - The Complete CBS Masterworks Recordings
Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) with Maurice Andre, Claude Bolling, Placido Domingo, Kathleen Battle, Juilliard String Quartet, English Chamber Orchestra
[ Sony Classical Masters / 56 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ]
The most comprehensive boxed sets ever to feature the recordings of the great master of the flute: Jean-Pierre Rampal.
Leonard Bernstein: The Composer [25 CD set] cover
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein: The Composer [25 CD set]
Jennie Tourel, Zino Francescatti, Benny Goodman, Nancy Walker, Carol Lawrence, Yo-Yo Ma, Alan Titus, Harolyn Blackwell, etc / Leonard Bernstein (cond)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 25 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ]
With his centenary upon us, Sony Classical releases the most comprehensive recorded collection ever released of the music of American conductor, composer and educator Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990).
Leonard Bernstein conducts Bernstein [7 CD set] cover
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Leonard Bernstein conducts Bernstein [7 CD set]
John Bogart (alto) Zino Francescatti (violin) Benny Goodman (clarinet) / New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
[ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/Sep/2011 ]
Leonard Bernstein was perhaps the most influential figure in classical music in the last half of the twentieth century. Composer, conductor, author, lecturer and often controversial media personality, the American-born Bernstein had a dramatic impact...