Charles Rosen - The Complete Columbia and Epic Album Collection;

Charles Rosen

The Complete Columbia and Epic Album Collection

Specially Priced 21-CD Box Set

Many of renowned pianist Charles Rosen's highly praised albums slipped out of circulation and became collector's items. Happily, the release of The Complete Columbia and Epic Album Collection will enable a new generation of listeners to savor, in a single collection, the full stature and extraordinarily wide-ranging tastes of an artist whose importance was unfairly obscured by his sheer brilliance as an author, thinker, teacher and lecturer along with his illustrious music career, he was a professor of French literature at M.I.T. Here, with his complete recordings for Columbia and Epic records on 21 CDs, the majority of them re-mastered from the original analogue tapes we can trace Rosen's development from early on in his recording career to the years of his highest maturity. While the pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann and Debussy are to be expected, the unashamed virtuosity of encores from the Golden Age and the penetrating accounts of such 20th-century moderns as Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez and Carter will prove startling to many. Charles Rosen not only ranged wide, in sympathy and style, he encouraged and enabled his listeners to do the same.

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