Great Pianists of the 20th Century - The Complete Edition

	TITLE : Great Pianists of the 20th Century - The Complete Edition
	CATALOGUE NUMBER : 462 845-2
	INTERNATIONAL RELEASE DATE : October 1999
	SERIES : Great Pianists of the 20th Century

ARTISTS
Géza Anda Martha Argerich Claudio Arrau Vladimir Ashkenazy Wilhelm Backhaus Daniel Barenboim Jorge Bolet Alfred Brendel Lyubov Bruk & Mark Taimanov Robert Casadesus Shura Cherkassky Van Cliburn Alfred Cortot Clifford Curzon György Cziffra Christoph Eschenbach Edwin Fischer Leon Fleisher Samson François Nelson Freire Ignaz Friedman Andrei Gavrilov Walter Gieseking Emil Gilels Grigory Ginsburg Leopold Godowsky Glenn Gould Friedrich Gulda Ingrid Haebler Clara Haskil Myra Hess Josef Hofmann Vladimir Horowitz Byron Janis William Kapell Julius Katchen Wilhelm Kempff Evgeny Kissin Zoltán Kocsis Stephen Kovacevich Alicia de Larrocha Josef & Rosina Lhévinne Dinu Lipatti Radu Lupu Nikita Magaloff Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Benno Moiseiwitsch Ivan Moravec John Ogdon Ignace Jan Paderewski Murray Perahia Maria João Pires Mikhail Pletnev Maurizio Pollini André Previn Sergei Rachmaninov Sviatoslav Richter Artur Rubinstein András Schiff Artur Schnabel Rudolf Serkin Vladimir Sofronitzky Solomon Rosalyn Tureck Mitsuko Uchida André Watts Alexis Weissenberg Earl Wild Maria Yudina Krystian Zimerman
RECORDING INFORMATION
The Edition is an official world record holder, as it is the biggest single recorded CD edition: - 74 pianists - 200 CDs - 250 hours of music - 25% of the releases have never been released on CD before - 90 minutes have never been released on any carrier before - 15 different nationalities represented - Oldest pianist - Ignace Paderewski (1860-1941) - Youngest pianist - Evgeny Kissin (b. 1971)
PRESS QUOTES
"Piano Bravissimo - treasures and pleasures abound in a mammoth CD selection of the century's virtuoso pianists. The pleasure of Great Pianists is in the listening . . . not in the debate over inclusiveness. All of the significant performances of the century are here . . . Great Pianists is unquestionably the granddad of all compilations, and a wonderful trip through the history of piano interpretations. One might be tempted to dismiss this project as a glib summary of a century in box-set form, as yet another cynical ploy by the record companies. But the 100 neat and tidy two-CD packets of the Great Pianists are a noble exception - truly great indeed." - Time Magazine "If anything in the history of piano recordings can be said to have an official stamp, this is it . . . Great Pianists is a vast, valuable trove of piano recordings." - The New York Times "The millennium piano project par excellence: Philips's Great Pianists of the 20th Century edition." - The Times