Mozart: Symphony No.40; Mahler: Kindertotenlieder; Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra

Karl Bhm conducts:- Mozart Symphony No. 40 Mahler Kindertotenlieder Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra 2 CD set at a reduced price Berliner Philharmoniker (Michel Schwalb Konzertmeister) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau Salzburg Festival previously unpublished.

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Arthur Rubinstein: The Complete Album Collection

From December on, "Arthur Rubinstein The Complete Album Collection" will be the world's biggest CD edition for a solo artist according to Guinness World Records (TM). It features all the legendary pianist's issued recordings made by RCA Victor between 1940 and 1976, and includes one LP issued on the DECCA label in 1978. The collection also includes the recordings Rubinstein made in England for the English label His Master's Voice (HMV) between 1928 and 1940, most of which were released in the United States by RCA on its Victor label. The collection includes complete studio and live performances, solo, concerto and chamber music repertoire in reproductions of original LP sleeves and labels, the earlier recordings, initially released on 78-rpm discs, appear in three sets with 14 CDs in the edition.

The bonus CDs in this edition (CDs 140-142) contain recordings of his legendary 1961 cycle of ten concerts at New York's Carnegie Hall. They include four works that Rubinstein had never before committed to disc plus two others that represent brand-new additions to his RCA discography.

This edition also boasts the finest sound quality ever bestowed on Arthur Rubinstein's complete recordings. The masters for the principal works in the collection come from the series of Living Stereo SACDs and Japanese XRCDs. All the other recordings are based on masters from the Rubinstein Collection of 1999, technically and sonically refurbished for this edition. In cases where the desired results could not be obtained, Sony Classical has gone back to the original analogue tapes.

The 164-page full-colored hardcover book in landscape format includes new liner notes by Rubinstein biographer Harvey Sachs, photos shot or selected by Arthur Rubinstein's daughter Eva Rubinstein, an essay about the legendary 1961 Carnegie Hall concerts, complete discography in alphabetical and chronological order featuring 78s, 45s and LPs and track listings with complete discographical notes, producer names and matrix nos.

The two bonus DVDs are "Rubinstein Remembered", a documentary tracing the great pianist's life from his origins in ód , Poland, through his final concert there in 1975, with interviews from family and friends, newsreels, home movies, TV interviews and performance footage. Narrated by Rubinstein's son John Rubinstein and produced by Peter Rosen and the "The Benefit Recital for Israel 1976" recorded at Ambassador College, Pasadena, California on Jan 15, 1975 featuring works by Beethoven, Schumann, Debussy, Chopin and Mendelssohn.

The "Arthur Rubinstein Complete Album Collection" consists almost entirely of reproductions of vinyl LPs in their original sleeves. The few exceptions that were only released on CD retain their original CD cover. Thus for the first time ever, music lovers have the opportunity of discovering every single one of Rubinstein's original albums in a single issue.

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Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone

Yo-Yo Ma's first collaboration with acclaimed Italian film composer, Ennio Morricone. Features original cello & orchestra arrangements by Morricone of his most popular themes: "The Mission," "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," "Cinema Paradiso" and others.

Ennio Morricone is well-known to moviegoers. His soundtracks for The Mission, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in America, Cinema Paradiso, and others are invariably warmly melodic and superbly suited to the films they grace. They not only add atmosphere; they help tell the story. For this CD Morricone has created new orchestrations for many of his scores, adding a solo cello part for the indefatigable Yo-Yo Ma, whose musical curiosity seems to be endless. Outside the films, these pieces tend to be lovely melodies, mostly pretty sentimental stuff, and, in the best way, gorgeous aural wallpaper. The most moving are the two selections from The Mission, but fans of Morricone's music will find plenty to enjoy here. Ma's playing, as always, is exquisite---warm, deeply felt (given the circumstances), and entirely idiomatic within the context. Perhaps not quite for the classical music lover, but an affectionate reworking of music by an important film composer. --Robert Levine.

List of the Track Names-

1. The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe

2. The Mission: The Falls

3. Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: Playing Love from The Legend of 1900

4. Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: Nostalgia from Cinema Paradiso

5. Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: Looking for You (Love Theme) from Cinema Paradiso

6. Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: Malena (Main theme)

7. Giuseppe Tornatore Suite: Remembering (Ricordare)*

8. Sergio Leone Suite: Deborah's Theme from Once Upon A Time In America

9. Sergio Leone Suite: Cockeye's Song from Once Upon a Time in America

10. Sergio Leone Suite: Main Theme from Once Upon a Time in America

11. Sergio Leone Suite: Main Theme from Once Upon a Time in the West

12. Sergio Leone Suite: Ecstasy of Gold from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

13. Brian DePalma Suite: Main Theme from Casualities of War

14. Brian DePalma Suite: Death Theme from The Untouchables

15. Moses and Marco Polo Suite: Journey from Moses

16. Moses and Marco Polo Suite: Theme from Moses

17. Moses and Marco Polo Suite: Main Theme from Marco Polo

18. The Lady Caliph: Dinner

19. The Lady Caliph: Nocturne

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