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Composers in Person Box Set (22 CDs)

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Composers:
Olivier Messiaen (1908 - 1992)
Aram Khachaturian (1903 - 1978)
Nikolai Medtner (1880 - 1951)
Enrique Granados (1867 - 1916)
Hans Pfitzner (1869 - 1949)
Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963)
Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 - 1959)
Louis Vierne (1870 - 1937)
Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934)
Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
Alexander Glazunov (1865 - 1936)
Charles-Marie Widor (1844 - 1937)
Joseph Szigeti
Joaquin Nin (1879 - 1949)
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963)
Florent Schmitt (1870 - 1958)
Federico Mompou (1893 - 1987)
Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976)
Sir Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
Arthur Honegger (1892 - 1955)
Albert Roussel (1869 - 1937)
Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946)
Darius Milhaud (1892 - 1974)
Béla Bartók (1881 - 1945)
Ernö von Dohnányi (1877 - 1960)
Marcel Dupré (1886 - 1971)
Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948)

Conductors
Ernest Ansermet
André Cluytens
Lawrence Collingwood
Piero Coppola
Edward Elgar
Alexander Glazunov
Paul Hindemith
Gustav Holst
Arthur Honegger
Aram Khachaturian
Franz Lehár
Darius Milhaud
Hans Pfitzner
Albert Roussel
Florent Schmitt
Walther Straram
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Heitor Villa-Lobos

Performers
Igor Stravinsky (Piano)
Maria Barrientos (Soprano)
Sergei Prokofiev (Piano)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Soprano)
Leslie Howard (Piano)
Louis Gromer (Oboe)
Louis Cahuzac (Clarinet)
Marcel Darrieux (Violin)
Ludwig Hoelscher (Cello)
Daniel Guillevitch (Violin)
Linda Seymour (Alto)
Francis Poulenc (Piano)
Ninon Vallin (Soprano)
Marcelle Meyer (Piano)
Florent Schmitt (Piano)
Eugen Foveau (Trumpet)
Louis Vierne (Organ)
Vera Schwarz (Soprano)
Peter Pears (Tenor)
Pierre Vignal (Trumpet)
Joseph Szigeti (Violin)
Enrique Granados (Piano)
Beatrice Harrison (Cello)
Oda Slobodskaya (Soprano)
Roy Henderson (Baritone)
Gabriel Grandmaison (Bassoon)
Szymon Goldberg (Violin)
Auguste Cruque (Cello)
Magda Tagliaferro (Piano)
Albert Roussel (Piano)
Berkeley Mason (Piano)
Roland Charmy (Violin)
Joaquin Nin (Piano)
Hans Pfitzner (Piano)
Leon Pascal (Viola)
Lucien Lavaillotte (Flute)
Charles-Marie Widor (Organ)
Richard Tauber (Tenor)
Benjamin Britten (Piano)
Marius Piard (Bassoon)
Vilma Medgyaszay (Soprano)
Soulima Stravinsky (Piano)
Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
Benno Moiseiwitsch (Piano)
Edwin Benbow (Piano)
Samuel Dushkin (Violin)
Emanuel Feuermann (Cello)
Georges Bonneau (Oboe)
Victoria Los Angeles (Soprano)
Claire Croiza (Soprano)
Ernest Lush (Piano)
Jean Morel (Percussion)
David Oistrakh (Violin)
Federico Mompou (Piano)
Paul Mas (Cello)
Andre LaFosse (Trombone)
Louis Juste (Double Bass)
Roger Lamorlette (Oboe)
Maria Reining (Soprano)
Pierre Bernac (Baritone)
Marcel Moyse (Flute)
Henri Volant (Violin)
Olivier Messiaen (Organ)
Nikolai Medtner (Piano)
Ludovic Vaillant (Trumpet)
George Durand (English Horn)
Paul Hindemith (Viola)
Manuel Falla (Piano)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (Piano)
Tatiana Makushina (Soprano)
Parry Jones (Tenor)
Andre Vacellier (Clarinet)
Dennis Brain (French Horn)
Manuel Falla (Harpsichord)
Max Strub (Violin)
Joseph Calvet (Violin)
Kate Winter (Soprano)
Eugene Ginot (Viola)
Gustave Dherin (Bassoon)
Darius Milhaud (Piano)
Emile Godeau (Clarinet)
Roger Tudesq (Trombone)
Dmitri Shostakovich (Piano)
Béla Bartók (Piano)
Raphaël Delbos (Trombone)
Jean Devémy (French Horn)
Ernö Dohnányi (Piano)
Marcel Dupré (Organ)
Gerhard Hüsch (Baritone)
Maurice Maréchal (Cello)
Jarmila Novotná (Soprano)
Aladár Rácz (Cimbalom)
Esther Réthy (Soprano)

The serie "Composers in person" is probably until this date, the biggest and ambitious historical compilation; it's to say the greatest musical achievement ever made in order to preserve the memory and the approach given by the composers playing their own works. Despite of the fact of so many glorious musical findings you will find out here there are memorable highlights that well deserve to make mention.

First at all, the presence of Shostakovich playing his two piano concertos under the baton of Andre Cluytens as well as other preludes. Besides, the renowned Prokoviev playing his supreme battle horse piano concerto No. 3 in 1929. But there's still more: Enrique Granados. Hans Pfitzner, Darius Milhaud, Oliver Messiaen, Kachaturian, Hindemith, Poulenc or Villalobos playing or conducting make to feel us we are in another mood and level.

Finally, taking into account the colossal bargain of twenty two albums by less than $75 you should not hesitate just for a moment.