[pcolbeck]

Hi

EMI have launched a new series called "Great Artists Of The Century" basically its mid priced re-releases of some of their stuff. They are putting out a promo double CD containg a track from every one of the first 25 titles to be released. I picked one up in Virgin this week for £2.99 (or perhaps a little less I can't quite remember). Its essentially a sampler but it is nicely done complete with a booklet bound in the middle. Might make a good sampler for someone just getting into classical or perhaps if you are just curious about the CDs in this series. Track listing is:

Beethoven - String Quartet Op.18/6
Alban Berg Quartett

Rachmaninov - Piono Concerto No3
Lief Ove Andsnes

Berlioz - Les Troyens Act V
Dame Janet Baker

Schubert - Symphony No.9
Sir Adrian Bolt

Puccini - Turnandot
Maria Callas

Britten - A Ceromany of Carols
Choir of Kings College Cambridge

Liszt - Mephisto Waltz No.1
George Cziffra

Dvorak - Cello Concerto
Jacqueline du Pre

Schubert - Winterreise
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Rikard Strauss- Till Eulenspiegel
Wilhelm Furtwangler

Debussay - Images
Carlo Maria Giulini

Verdi - Don Carlo Act III
Tito Gobbi

Bach - Cantata BWV 82
Hans Hotter

Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dances
Mariss Jansons

Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Herbet von Karajan

Walton - Viola Concerto
Nigel Kennedy

Bruckner - Symphony No.4
Otto Klemper

Schubert - Moments Musicaux
Stephen Kovacevich

Chopin - Waltzes
Dinu Lipatti

Brahms - Violin Concerto
Yehudi Menuhin

Mozart - Violin Concerto No.23
Arturo Benedetti

Mozart - Violin Concerto No.1
Ann-Sophie Mutter

Britten - Cello Symphony
Mstislav Rostropovich

Mussorgsky orch. Shostakovich - Songs and Dances of Death
Galina Vishnevskaya