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Although Francescatti is probably best remembered for his wide-ranging concerto recordings with Bernstein, Ormandy and Bruno Walter and Casadesus for his sparkling Mozart concertos with Szell, their duo recordings were also greatly admired by music lovers, especially their landmark interpretations of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas. The first of these recordings – made in mono between 1949 and 1957 in New York, when both musicians were living in the US – comprised Nos. 3–9. A remake, this time the complete cycle, was recorded in stereo in Paris in 1958 and 1961. Now Sony Classical is reissuing all of these performances in a single 7-CD box set.Zino Francescatti (1902–1991), born in Marseille to two violinists who were also his teachers, was noted for his exceptionally sweet tone, eloquent lyricism and romantic warmth. Virgil Thomson extolled his playing in a 1947 review: “Everywhere there was beauty, dignity, repose and the authority of solid worth. 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The Grammys in the US, the Gramophone Awards in Britain, the Diapason d’or in France and the ECHO Klassik awards in Germany are among the organisations that have picked out many of Perahia’s recordings as some of the finest of their day. This set is devoted to Perahia’s award-winning discs for Sony Classical \/ CBS Masterworks. These also trace the story of his journey through the musical world, capturing magnificent collaborations, unforgettable partnerships and peerless solo accounts alike. The earliest recording here dates from 1983 and presents Perahia as soloist and director in two exquisite Mozart piano concertos, No. 15 in B-flat major, K 450 and No. 16 in D major, K 451. Much influenced by his studies at the Curtis Institute with the Polish pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski and by playing chamber music at summer courses such as Marlboro and Blue Hill, Perahia was attracted to the close-knit, chamber music-like qualities of the concertos and sought to bring these to the fore, particularly spotlighting the English Chamber Orchestra’s fine wind soloists. This was named Best Concerto Recording at the Gramophone Awards 1984, and soon afterwards Perahia and the ECO’s complete set of the Mozart concertos was also awarded a Rosette by the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs. Two years later, Perahia joined forces with a close friend and musical kindred spirit: the Romanian pianist Radu Lupu, who shares Perahia’s affinity for the most intimate works among the Viennese classics, including Mozart, Schubert and Brahms. They teamed up for some memorable joint performances, not least at the Snape Maltings, Suffolk, while Perahia was co-artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival (1981–1989). He and Lupu recorded the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos, K 448 and the Schubert F minor Fantasy for Piano Duet, D 940 live at Snape; it became an instant classic, winning Best Instrumental Recording at the Gramophone Awards in 1986. It was around the same time, having explored the Mozart concertos to happy effect, that Perahia was turning his attention in the studio to those by Beethoven, in a cherished collaboration with the conductor Bernard Haitink and his Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from Amsterdam. Their recording of the Piano Concertos No. 3 and 4 scooped a Gramophone Award in 1986 (Best Concerto Recording). Beethoven has been central to Perahia’s repertoire for his whole career and in recent years he has been preparing a new edition of the piano sonatas for Henle Urtext. If Haitink has been a close colleague for Perahia over many years, so was Sir Georg Solti. “He was a formidable musician,” Perahia said of him in an interview a few years ago with the present writer. “He once played for me a Haydn oratorio as if it was a piano piece, reading from the score or memorised, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. I have only happy memories of him.” The fiery Hungarian conductor was also a magnificent pianist – and in this role he recorded with Perahia one of the most thrilling accounts yet set down of the Bartók Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, together with the percussionists David Corkhill and Evelyn Glennie. Again the Snape Maltings was the venue and the joyous result was recognised with the 1989 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance. By this time Perahia had built a reputation second to none for his interpretations of the German-Austrian classics. Yet at the Leeds International Piano Competition he had triumphed by playing the Chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in the final. Chopin might have seemed to take a back seat to Beethoven and Mozart as Perahia’s career progressed, but his recording of the Four Ballades and a selection of mazurkas, waltzes, études and nocturnes proved a revelation to many, winning him the Gramophone Award for Best Instrumental Recording in 1995. Eight years later, his account of the Études opp. 10 and 25 was recognised with a Grammy for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance. Perahia has cited the Chopin Études as a vital practice tool, remarking in the aforementioned interview, “I’m occupied with ideas of legato touch and smoothness of line,” and suggesting that work on these studies can be of vital benefit in achieving those qualities. When Perahia chose to record a disc of Handel Suites and Scarlatti Sonatas, the result was showered with accolades, winning Record of the Year at the 1997 Midem Cannes Classical Awards and the Best Instrumental Solo or Chamber Performance – 17th \/ 18th Centuries. It was also given the 1997 Gramophone Award for Best Instrumental Recording. The link between Handel and the Romantic era came to the fore when Perahia recorded Brahms’s grand-scale Variations on a Theme of Handel, along with the two Rhapsodies op. 79 and the late Klavierstücke opp. 118 and 119. The critic for Gramophone declared: “Time and again Brahms’s potential for strenuousness and opacity is clarified with a superfine musical intelligence and technique … I doubt whether the concluding and exultant fugue has often been given with a more formidable yet lightly worn articulacy in its entire history.” No surprise, then, that this recording won a Gramophone Award and an ECHO Klassik in 2011. 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His TV appearances had already made him a household name in the US by the time he was 13. A few years later came his Carnegie Hall debut, then the prestigious Leventritt Award, followed by triumphant tours of Israel, North America and Europe between 1965 and 1968. By then he was an international celebrity and recognized “not just as the finest violinist of his generation but as one of the greatest musical talents to emerge since World War II” (leading string authority Tully Potter writing in the NEW GROVE).And it was then that Perlman began his illustrious, virtually unparalleled career as a recording artist. His first sessions for RCA, accompanied by pianist David Garvey – with works ranging from sonatas by Handel, Leclair and Hindemith to showpieces by Paganini, Bazzini, Sarasate and Falla – took place in New York in 1965 but were not issued for nearly 40 years because the label felt concertos would make a more suitable commercial debut for the rising star. When an album of these pieces was finally released – as “Perlman Rediscovered”, in 2004 – it was hailed “an outstanding tribute to one of the great names among violinists of any age, as well as a remarkably varied and interesting recital in its own right” (ClassicsToday). These tracks are, of course, included in the new collection.Perlman’s first concerto efforts for RCA – the Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Prokofiev Second, with Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony – were set down in 1966\/1967 and released the following years as his recording debut. ClassicsToday acclaimed them in a recent reissue as “offering playing that is gutsy and shamelessly virtuosic, and with a sharper rhythmic focus than Perlman often achieved subsequently. The finale of the Sibelius remains a potent example of the playing’s youthful fire.” In 1969, Perlman recorded what was arguably one of the finest albums of his career, the two Prokofiev Sonatas (which he never remade), partnered by pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy at the beginning of their long and distinguished collaboration: “Delicate where needs be … and yet with a Heifetzian resilience that both sonatas willingly respond to … Perlman and Ashkenazy play with astonishing virtuosity” (Gramophone).Itzhak Perlman’s work for American Columbia began in the mid-1970s and – apart from Bach and Vivaldi multi-violin concertos with Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman and the New York Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta – cover a wide swath of chamber music with special partners: pianists Daniel Barenboim and Emanuel Ax, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell and guitarist John Williams. The Mendelssohn Piano Trios with Ax and Ma, first released in 2010, appear here for the first time in a Perlman collection (“…ensemble balance, clarity of inner part-writing, drama, lyricism, and phrase shaping of the highest order … I find these performances not just outstanding; I find them astounding” (Fanfare).That other John Williams, the legendary composer for the silver screen, was Perlman’s collaborator in another medium, the movies: his two best-selling “Cinema Serenade” albums arranged and conducted by Williams, with Perlman featured in selections from such classic films as Modern Times, Gone with the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Out of Africa, Cinema Paradiso, The Color Purple and, of course, the theme that Perlman memorably performed on the soundtrack of Williams’s Oscar-winning score for the Spielberg masterpiece Schindler’s List.New to Perlman CD editions are two complete soundtrack albums: John Williams’s “elegant and thoughtful score” for Memoirs of a Geisha in which the violinist is joined by Yo-Yo Ma and to which Perlman “brings a magical and peculiarly oriental sound to his violin-playing” (Gramophone), and the music for Yimou Zhang’s Hero by Tan Dun: “Few composers today write more effective melodies for bowed strings” (Gramophone). And to round off this uniquely wide-ranging survey of the violinist’s musical passions and triumphs, in its first appearance in a Perlman collection, the artist is joined by golden-voiced cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot in Eternal Echoes, a highly praised album of liturgical and traditional selections which the violinist has affectionately described as “Jewish comfort music – everything that I recognize from my childhood is in this program.”SET CONTENTSDISC 1:Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63   Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47DISC 2:Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, TH 59Dvořák: Romance in F Minor, Op. 11, B. 39   DISC 3:Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 80   Prokofiev: Violin Sonata in D Major No. 2, Op. 94bis   DISC 4:Lalo: Symphonie espagnole, Op. 21   Ravel: Tzigane, M. 76 (Version for Violin \u0026amp; Orchestra)   DISC 5:Paganini: Centone di sonate, Op. 64, MS 112 (Sonata No. 1 in A Minor)   Paganini: Sonata for Violin and Guitar in E Minor, Op. 3, No. 6, MS 27   Paganini: Sonata concertata in A Major, Op. 61, MS 2   Giuliani: Duo concertante in E Minor, Op. 25 \"Grand Sonata\"   Giuliani: Cantabile in D Major, Op. 17, MS 109   DISC 6:Dohnányi: Serenade in C Major, Op. 10   Beethoven: Serenade in D Major, Op. 8   DISC 7:Bach, J.S.: Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043   Vivaldi: Concerto for 3 Violins in F Major, RV 551   Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat Major, K. 364   DISC 8:Chausson: Concerto for Violin, Piano and String Quartet in D Major, Op. 21   DISC 9:Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78   Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 100   Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108   DISC 10:Mozart: Duo for Violin \u0026amp; Viola in G Major, K. 423   Mozart: Duo for Violin and Viola, K. 424   Leclair: 6 Sonatas for 2 Violins, Op. 3, No. 4   DISC 11:Lubbock\/Rosenbaum\/Jones\/Temperton: The Color Purple: Main Title   Gardel: Scent of a Woman: Tango (Por Una Cabeza)   Legrand: Yentl: Papa, Can You Hear Me?   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I believe that in the life and career of a musician, luck plays an enormous role. The great piece of luck in my musical life has been my partnership with Yo-Yo. I learned most of the standard cello repertoire with him, but through our work together I also learned an enormous amount about all the other music that I was playing – and about sharing my love of music with audiences. Our approaches to learning a new work together started at opposite ends quite often. Yo-Yo always saw the big picture, he thought first about the emotional impact. I often started by asking why the third eighth note in bar 2 had a dot, and the fourth one didn’t. Gradually, we met in the middle. For me, it was revelatory to work in his way, and I hope I did not annoy him too much with my persnickety questions! Our first recordings were the Beethoven Sonatas. We had played them in concert a number of times and thought that we could do a creditable performance on disc. I remember so well the thrill of seeing those LP covers; the pianist is now a white-haired old gentleman, and the cellist looks as young as ever! I am a great lover of Russian music, but never felt that I could play it properly. The albums of Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev are very special to me as they represent my attempts at music that I adore… When I look at the list of recordings that Yo-Yo and I have done together I feel enormously privileged to have shared in the journey of this unique artist. It was happenstance and great good fortune that gave me this gift, and I am grateful beyond measure for the time we have had together. I hope there are still some years left for me to keep learning from him, and that we continue to have fun exploring together.” (Emanuel Ax)SET CONTENTSDISC 1:Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1   Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 5 No. 2DISC 2:Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102 No. 1   Beethoven: 7 Variations on \"Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen\", WoO 46   Beethoven: 12 Variations in G Major on \"See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes\", WoO 45   Beethoven: 12 Variations in F Major on \"Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen\", Op. 66   DISC 3:Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69   Beethoven: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102 No. 2DISC 4:Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99DISC 5:Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 38Brahms: Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99   Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108DISC 6:Schumann: Cello Concerto in A Minor, Op. 129   Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks \/ Conductor: Sir Colin Davis Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73   Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70   Schumann: 5 Stücke im Volkston, Op. 102   DISC 7:R. Strauss: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 6, TrV 115   Britten: Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 65DISC 8:Prokofiev: Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 119Rachmaninov: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 19DISC 9:Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114   Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 11 \"Gassenhauer\"   Mozart: Piano Trio in E-Flat Major, K. 498 \"Kegelstatt\"   Clarinet: Richard Stoltzman DISC 10:Chopin: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 8   Violin: Pamela Frank Chopin: Introduction et Polonaise brillante in C Major, Op. 3   Chopin: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65   Chopin: Introduction et Polonaise brillante in C Major, Op. 3 (Transcribed for Piano)Piano: Eva OsinskaDISC 11:Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 65, B. 130   Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 90, B. 166 \"Dumky\"   Violin: Young Uck Kim DISC 12:Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67   Violin: Isaac Stern Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D Minor, Op. 40   DISC 13:Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, K. 493   Mozart: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478   Violin: Isaac Stern Viola: Jaime Laredo DISC 14:Beethoven: Piano Quintet in E-Flat Major, Op. 16 (Version for Piano Quartet)   Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47   Violin: Isaac Stern Viola: Jaime Laredo DISC 15:Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25   Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60   Violin: Isaac Stern Viola: Jaime Laredo DISC 16:Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26   Violin: Isaac Stern Viola: Jaime Laredo DISC 17:Dvořák: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 87, B. 162   Violin: Isaac Stern Viola: Jaime Laredo Brahms: Sonata in D Major for Cello and Piano, Op. 78 (arr. from the Sonata in G Major for Violin and Piano)   DISC 18:Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15   Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45   Violin: Isaac Stern Viola: Jaime Laredo DISC 19:Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667, Op. 114 \"Trout\"   Violin: Pamela Frank Bass: Edgar Meyer Viola: Rebecca Young Schubert: Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821   Schubert: Die Forelle, D. 550, Op. 32   Soprano: Barbara BonneyDISC 20:Lieberson: King Gesar   Conductor: Peter Lieberson Percussion: Stefan Hüge Piano: Peter Serkin Flute: Andras Adorjan Clarinet: Deborah Marshall French Horn: William Purvis Trombone: David Taylor Corigliano: Phantasmagoria   DISC 21:Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49   Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor Op. 66   Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Op. 19, No. 1 \"Sweet Remembrance\" - Andante con moto   Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Op. 38, No. 6 \"Duetto\" - Andante con moto   Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Op. 38, No. 2 - Allegro non troppo   Violin: Itzhak Perlman Mendelssohn: Songs without Words, Op. 62, No. 1 - Andante espressivo   Mendelssohn: Song without Words, Op. 109   Beethoven:  Piano Trio No. 4 in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 \"Ghost\": II. 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The selection of the works takes the importance of big names and well known works into account, but also presents modern or even avant-garde approaches or less well known chamber music works. The world’s leading orchestras, conductors and soloists, outstanding concert venues like the KKL Culture and Convention Centre by the renowned architect Jean Nouvel in Lucerne, a breathtaking landscape: there are many reasons for falling in love with the Swiss music festivals. The Swiss festivals now draw more than 500,000 classical music enthusiasts to the shores of Lake Lucerne or the Verbier mountains every year. And the numbers of visitors is growing from year to year. 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This legendary French flute virtuoso broke through that barrier with his astonishing talent, flair, and commanding stage presence, attaining the kind of visibility previously enjoyed only by pianists and violinists. He regularly filled the world’s largest concert halls for his recitals and chamber performances. Rampal was the father figure of the flute renaissance in the 20th century which restored the instrument to the exalted position it held during the 18th.He also became one the world’s most recorded artists, commanding all the essential repertoire of his instrument but equally embracing previously unknown works, his own discoveries, jazz, pop, folk and contemporary works. Virtually anything written for the flute or plausibly adapted for it was grist for his mill. In his autobiography Rampal referred to the discography that brought him numerous prizes and awards as being so enormous that not even he could keep track of it. In 1969, he began recording for CBS, and in 1979 he signed an exclusive contract with the label. To mark his 100th birthday, Sony Classical will release in a 56-CD box set the first complete edition of Jean-Pierre Rampal’s recordings for CBS, RCA and Sony Classical.Rampal was born in 1922 in Marseille, where his father Joseph was a professor at the conservatoire and principal flute in the orchestra. When he was twelve, Jean-Pierre was given his own flute and went to the conservatory to study with his father. “He was my teacher and my hero,” he later wrote. “I wanted to do what he did.” Playing the flute was the supreme passion of Rampal’s life, as important to him as food or water. In 1945, after the liberation of Paris where he had been studying at the conservatoire, Rampal was invited to play the Ibert Concerto – written in 1934 for another of his idols, the great French flautist Marcel Moyse – on live radio with the Orchestre National de France. That performance launched a career that would span over 50 years. But the music that was already making his heart beat the fastest was Baroque, then enjoying a new wave of popularity in France. Rampal recalled: “Bach, Handel, Vivaldi \u0026amp; Co., with their precise, measured music, gave the public the security and sense of order that the war had taken away. You knew where this music was going and what it would do.”Immediately after the war, Rampal began turning out 78-rpm discs. In time, he would become perhaps the most recorded classical instrumentalist in history. During the LP era, he worked with more than 20 different labels before signing with CBS as an exclusive artist. Having inaugurated his CBS discography with Mozart – joined by Isaac Stern, Alexander Schneider and Leonard Rose in the Flute Quartets – he capped it in 1996 with Boccherini Quintets, partnered by four distinguished French string players. In between came a vast trove of memorable releases, including much more Mozart as well as music by Bach and his sons, Vivaldi, Handel, Telemann, Rameau, Sammartini, Quantz, Benda, Frederick the Great, Kuhlau, Carulli, Cimarosa, Haydn, Gluck, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Paganini, Giuliani, Spohr, Rossini, Donizetti, Chopin, Dvořák, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel, Ibert, Gershwin, Kreisler, Martinů and Penderecki, with partners including Mstislav Rostropovich, Kathleen Battle, Plácido Domingo, Pinchas and Eugenia Zukerman, Salvatore Accardo and Trevor Pinnock.And those are just the classical releases. Rampal also became famous for exploring non-traditional flute repertoire as well as for being a proud trailblazer in crossover. His CBS recording of the French jazz pianist Claude Bolling’s Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano, released in 1975, made the Billboard chart of top-selling albums for ten consecutive years, only the second time that milestone had been reached (the first was Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon). This unprecedented sensation (“Sprightly and consistently romantic … the performances of the two principals are impeccable” – Gramophone) led to two highly successful sequels, Bolling’s Picnic Suite and his Suite No. 2 for Flute and Jazz Piano.Those recordings alone would have sufficed to make Rampal’s name a household word for music lovers of every stripe (a TV appearance with Miss Piggy and the Muppets extended his celebrity to children). But there is also his album of Gershwin songs with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; and Rampal playing European folksongs with trumpeter Maurice André; and a Rampal Christmas album, Pastorales de Noël, with guitarist Alexandre Lagoya – a regular Rampal collaborator, arranged by Michel Legrand who conducts the London Symphony Orchestra; and a haunting album of traditional Japanese melodies with three koto players (Rampal enjoyed an especially devoted following in that country); and an album of Scott Joplin rags accompanied by Tommy Johnson on tuba, Shelly Manne on drums and John Steele Ritter, his long-time musical partner, on piano. Etc. etc. etc.Rampal played for many years on what is probably the most famous flute in the world, the first gold instrument by the legendary Parisian flute maker Louis Lot. Built in 1869 for a French player who moved to Shanghai, this unique 18-carat gold somehow found its way back to Europe, and one day in 1948 the young Jean-Pierre Rampal fortuitously acquired it from a Paris antiques dealer. Soon he was dubbed “L’Homme à la flûte d’or” – “The Man with the Golden Flute”. (Later in his career he would play a 14-carat copy of his golden Lot and consign the priceless original to the safety of a vault.) Jean-Pierre Rampal became permanently associated with gold: not only for the flute he held in his hands, but also for the sound with which he captivated his listeners and, not least, for the sales figures his countless recordings chalked up all over the planet.SET CONTENTS:DISC 1:Mozart Flute QuartetsDISC 2: Bach FamilyDISC 3: Bolling: Suite for Flute and Jazz PianoDISC 4\/5: Rampal and Lagoya in ConcertDISC 6: Vivaldi\/TelemannDISC 7: Bolling: \"Picnic Suite\"DISC 8: Mozart: Flute Quartets K. 285 \u0026amp; K. 298\/Divertimento K. 334DISC 9: Carnaval de Rampal (Showpieces)DISC 10: Schubert: Sonata In A Minor\/Moscheles: Sonata concertanteDISC 11: Pastorales De NoelDISC 12: From Prague With Love (Dvorak, Feld, Martinu)DISC 13: Japanese Melodies, Vol. IIIDISC 14: HaydnDISC 15: Sonatas of J.S. 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