New York Philharmonic CDs

DETAILED FEATURES

10-CD box set
(Also available in 6 individually packaged volumes)

13 hours of music

100-page booklet in the 10-CD box
The booklet contains essays about Maestro Masur, interviews with composers, soloists and musicians about their feelings about working with and knowing Maestro Masur, critics' comments, lists of the world and U.S. premieres of works Masur performed with the New York Philharmonic, Masur's discography and photographs.

1 booklet in each volume package
These individual booklets feature Program Notes, texts of the works and photographs.

3 world premieres
Gubaidulina's Two Paths for Two Solo Violas
Kancheli's And Farewell Goes Out Sighing…
Tan Dun's Water Percussion Concerto

1 United States premiere
Henze's Symphony No. 9

Kurt Masur talks about Beethoven's Missa solemnis and Symphony No. 9

20 vocal soloists
Christine Brewer, Glenn Dicterow, Maria Ewing, Nancy Maultsby, Mary Ann McCormick, Sylvia McNair, Alastair Miles, Marthe Keller, Stuart Neill, Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz, Florence Quivar, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, René Pape, Derek Lee Ragin, Angelina Réaux, Peter Rose, Peter Schreier, Andreas Schmidt, Edith Wiens, Carolyn Watkinson.

5 instrumental soloists
Helen Huang, Piano; Gidon Kremer, Violin; Christopher Lamb, Percussion; Cynthia Phelps, Viola; Rebecca Young, Viola.

5 choral groups
The American Boychoir
Berlin Radio Choir
New York Choral Artists
Princeton Trinity Chorus
Westminster Symphony Choir