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Cover	Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] Contents
	GREAT PERFORMERS SERIES (Vinyl Box Sets):
	STL-P01 - Great Performers - Arthur Rubenstein [1981]
	STL-P02 - Great Performers - Jascha Heifetz [1981]
	STL-P03 - Great Performers - Luciano Pavarotti [1981]
	STL-P04 - Great Performers - Arturo Toscanini [1981]
	STL-P05 - Great Performers - Jean-Pierre Rampal [1981]
	STL-P06 - Great Performers - Vladimir Horowitz [1981]
	STL-P07 - Great Performers - Pablo Casals [1982]
	STL-P08 - Great Performers - Andres Segovia [1982]
	STL-P09 - Great Performers - Herbert Von Karajan [1982]
	STL-P10 - Great Performers - Maria Callas [1982]
	STL-P11 - Great Performers - Itzhak Perlman [1982]
	STL-P12 - Great Performers - Mstislav Rostropovich [1982]
	LEGENDARY PERFORMANCES SERIES (CD Sets):

In the mid-1990s, Time-Life came out with a similar series of 2-CD sets called Legendary Performers, with many of the same performers (having upgraded the Performers from "Great" to their performances being "Legendary" in the intervening years - in celebration of this upgrade, the CDs are gold plated). Information on that series is below.

Cover	Number - Title - Artist - [Release Date] Contents
	R824-01 - Legendary Performances - Leonard Bernstein [1996] Disc 1: Bernstein: Overture to "Candide"/Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"/Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue/Barber: Adagio for Strings/Schubert: Symphony No. 8 ("Unfinished") Disc 2: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
	R824-02 - Legendary Performances - Van Cliburn [1996] Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 - RCA Symphony Orchestra (Kirill Kondrashin, conductor)/Brahms: Intermezzi, Op. 117, Nos. 1- 3/Brahms: Klavierstücke, Op. 119, Nos. 1-3/Liszt: Libestraum No. 3/MacDowell: To A Wild Rose/Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Walter Hendl, conductor)/Rachmaninoff: Prelude in C Sharp Minor /Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableau in E Flat Minor, Op. 39, No. 5/Chopin: Polonaise No. 6 ("Heroic")/Chopin: Etude in E, No. 3 ("Tristesse")/Chopin: Etude in A Minor, No. 11 ("Winter Wind")/Chopin: Waltz in D Flat ("Minute")/Chopin: Waltz in C Sharp Minor, No. 2/Debussy: Claire de Lune/Debussy: The Girl With The Flaxen Hair
	R824-03 - Legendary Performances - Arturo Toscanini [1997] Beethoven: Symphony No. 5/ Brahms: Symphony No. 1/Beahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1/Rossini: William Tell Overture/Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino Overture/Verdi: Prelude to La Traviata/Verdi: Overture to La Forza del Destino/Wagner: Lohengrin - Prelude to Act III/Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurernberg - Prelude to Act III/Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Siegfried's Death and Funeral Music/Respighi: The Pines of Rome
	R824-04 - Legendary Performances - Vladimir Horowitz [1997] Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 - New York Philharmonic (Eugene Ormandy, conductor)/Scriabin: Etude in C Sharp Minor /Scriabin: Two Poems /Scriabin: Etude in D Sharp Minor /Scriabin: Vers la Flamme/Debussy: Preludes, Book II - Nos. 4, 5, and 6/Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 ("Pathétique")/Scarlatti: Sonata in E/Scarlatti: Sonata in A/Scarlatti: Sonata in G/Chopin: Etude in C minor/Chopin: Etude in C Sharp Minor/Chopin: Scherzo No. 1/Schumann: Kinderscenen/Schubert: Impromptu in G flat
	R824-05 - Legendary Performances - Artur Rubenstein [1997] Schumann: Piano Concerto In A Minor - Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor)/Beethoven: Sonata No. 14 in C Sharp Minor ("Moonlight")/Chopin: Nocturne No. 2/Chopin: Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor/Chopin: Adante Spianato and Grande Polonaise/Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor/Dvorak: Quintet in A for Piano and Strings (with the Guarneri String Quartet)
	R824-06 - Legendary Performances - Herbert von Karajan [1997]
	R824-07 - Legendary Performances - James Galway [1997]
	R824-0? - Legendary Performances - Itzhak Perlman [199?]
	R824-0? - Legendary Performances - Luciano Pavarotti [199?]

Thanks to Brian Francis.



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