Great Moments at Carnegie Hall

Ever since its opening night in May 1891 Carnegie Hall has held sway as the undisputed shrine of classical music in America. It was and remains the essential venue for all great artists. To celebrate Carnegie Hall s 125th anniversary Sony Classical in cooperation with Carnegie Hall is proud to present an extraordinary new 43-CD box set of treasures from the RCA and Columbia archives featuring live recordings from many of the world s greatest musicians. This unique deluxe edition contains a complete previously unreleased piano recital by Sviatoslav Richter and is accompanied by a 104-pages coffee table book which contains notes by Carnegie Hall archivist Gino Francesconi as well as many facsimile documents and photographs.

This recorded chronicle of eight decades spotlights many of the artists who enjoyed historically close ties to Carnegie Hall: Kathleen Battle, Lazar Berman, Leonard Bernstein, Jussi Björling, Jorge Bolet, Van Cliburn, Vladimir Feltsman, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renée Fleming, Virgil Fox, Glenn Gould, Marilyn Horne, Vladimir Horowitz, Evgeny Kissin Serge Koussevitzky, James Levine, Yo-Yo Ma, Wynton Marsalis, Yehudi Menuhin, Midori, Leontyne Price, Sviatoslav Richter, Mstislav Rostropovich, Arthur Rubinstein, Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern, Arturo Toscanini, Jennie Tourel, Ronald Turini, Shirley Verrett, Arcadi Volodos, Bruno Walter and many more.