The World's Great Performers Play The World's Great Music.
Everywhere they appear it's "Standing Room Only." And you'll find out why when you hear the world's most celebrated musical artists (some of them are pictured below) in TIME-LIFE RECORDS brilliant new series, GREAT MEN OF MUSIC. You'll hear Van Cliburn re-create the performance that won him the Tchaikovsky Competition in Mos cow . . . Eugene Ormandy conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in Mozart's powerful Jupiter Symphony . . . Arthur Fiedler lead the Boston "Pops" through the bubbling Suite from The Love for Three Oranges. . . .
Here is a complete home library of legendary performances, all re corded in the highest quality stereo sound.
Featuring: Juilliard Quartet Conductor Fritz Reiner Conductor Seiji Ozawa Boston Symphony Orchestra Soprano Beverly Sills Clarinetist Benny Goodman Conductor Eugene Ormandy Soprano Leontyne Price Conductor Arthur Fiedler
Just as you cannot understand a great painter by looking at a single picture, you cannot know and appreciate a great composer by hearing just one or two of his works. Now you can collect a sumptuous library of albums, each devoted to the masterworks of one immortal composer -- Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff, and others. In each four-record album you hear a superb selection of the forms in which each composer worked- sonatas, concertos, symphonies, tone poems. . . . And as you hear a variety of compositions by a single composer . . . as you compare one composer's work with another . . . as you follow the extensive notes that explain what each composer was trying to do and how he achieved his effects . . . you will come to appreciate the greatness of great music as you never have before.
Here is a genuinely new and exciting approach to music that can open up a whole new world of taste and pleasure for you and your family.
You can discover how richly rewarding an experience great music can be by auditioning the first album in GREAT MEN OF MUSIC for 10 days free. You'll receive four records of the stirring, melodic music of Peter Tchaikovsky, lavishly packaged, plus the deluxe edition of The Golden Encyclopedia of Music (a $45.87 value in all). It's just $17.95 plus shipping and handling if you decide to buy- yours to examine for 10 days free by returning the attached card, or writing to: Time Life Records, Time-Life Building, Chicago, Ill. 60611.
Each album contains four stereo LP records engineered by RCA to the highest standards of recorded excellence accompanied by a handsome 24-page booklet illustrated in color and black and white packaged in a sumptuous, heavy duty box.
GREAT MEN OF MUSIC. Give them your own audition for 10 days...FREE
Also see: CLASSICAL DISCS and TAPES
Source: Stereo Review (USA magazine)