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SONY CLASSICAL ADDS 20 NEW TITLES TO ITS ACCLAIMED MASTERWORKS EXPANDED EDITION SERIES CDs RELEASED ON JULY 27, 2004

Editors note: These CD's sound wonderful, the remastering
of these treasured albums are a gift to any orchestral music
lover.  There are some that have included additional tracks
of treasured musical numbers, above and beyond those
found on the earlier recordings.  Some of the best compositions
played by the best people, now ready for your listening pleasure.
Ed Vincent
With Additional Tracks And State-Of-The-Art Remastering, Twenty Legendary Recordings By Ma, Perahia, Stern, Horowitz, Ax, Rampal, Walter, Serkin, Bernstein, Guitarist John Williams, Many Others Featured In New Titles

(New York, NY, July 19, 2004)  Sony Classical has transformed 20
more of the most acclaimed recordings in its catalogue for a new series called Masterworks Expanded Edition, enhancing each classic title with additional tracks (many available for the first time in any format) and
state-of-the-art remastering using Sony's Direct Stream Digital (DSD)
System and SBM Direct for the best possible sound.  All 20 titles in
Masterworks Expanded Edition ? featuring the label's most esteemed artists of the last half-century  will be released on Tuesday,
July 27, 2004.

Like the first 40 in the series, each title appears in distinctive new
packaging, with the liner notes from its original release as well as
reviews that testify to its acclaim.  Titles have been chosen to guide
those who are trying to build a library of recorded classical music,
offering the essential masterpieces of the core-classical repertoire in
legendary performances.  The new tracks add to the overall value of the
series, along with special midline pricing.  Over 100 titles in the series
are planned for release over the next two years.

The new Masterworks Expanded Edition titles include:

·     Barber: Adagio for Strings and Other Romantic Favorites for Strings
(SK 92726)  Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic  Also includes
Vaughan Williams's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis for Double String Orchestra and Fantasia on "Greensleeves"; Tchaikovsky's Andante Cantabile (from String Quartet No. 1); the Adagietto from Mahler's Symphony No. 5.
Bonus tracks include the Romance from Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik; the Largo from Winter of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (with John Corigliano, violinist); and the Élégie (Larghetto eligiaco) from Tchaikovsky's Serenade for String Orchestra in C Major, Op. 48.

·     Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain (SK
92727)  Leonard Bernstein/New York Philharmonic  Additional tracks
include the entire 1970 recording of Respighi's The Pines of Rome.

·     Bernstein: Theater, Ballet and Film Music (SK 92728)  Leonard
Bernstein/New York Philharmonic Includes Candide Overture; Symphonic Dances from West Side Story; Symphony Suite from the film On the Waterfront; Fancy Free Ballet. Additional tracks include Three Dance Episodes from On the Town.

·     Dvoøák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (From the New World);
Carnival Overture; Slavonic Dances excerpts (SK 92729)  Leonard
Bernstein/New York Philharmonic  Additional tracks include the Overture
and Three Dances from Smetana's The Bartered Bride.


·     Beethoven/Brahms/Mozart: Clarinet Trios (SK 92730)  Emanuel Ax/Yo-Yo Ma/Richard Stoltzman 
Additional tracks include the first and third movements of Mozart's Sonata in B-flat Major for Bassoon and Piano, K.292.

·     Chopin: 24 Études, Opp. 10 & 25 (SK 92731)  Murray Perahia
Bonus tracks (all Chopin) include the Fantasie-Impromptu in C-sharp minor, Op. 66, and three Impromptus (A-flat Major, Op. 29; F-sharp Major, Op. 36; G-flat Major, Op. 15.

·     J. S. Bach: Violin Concertos (SK 92732)  Isaac Stern/Itzhak Perlman

Stern is soloist in the A Minor Concerto, BWV 1041, in which he also leads the London Symphony Orchestra, and the E Major Concerto, BWV 1042, with Alexander Schneider conducting the English Chamber Orchestra.  Perlman joins him in the D Minor Concerto for Two Violins, BWV 1043, with Zubin Mehta conducting the New York Philharmonic.

Bonus tracks feature Bach's Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1038, with Stern, Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute), Leslie Parnas (cello) and John Steele Ritter (harpsichord).

·     Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 17 in G Major, K.453 & No. 18 in B-flat
Major, K.456 (SK 92733)  Murray Perahia/English Chamber Orchestra 

Bonus track is the Andante grazioso e variazioni from Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 12 in A Major, K.331/300a.

·     Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 9 in E-flat Major, K.271 & No. 21 in C
Major, K.467 (SK 92734)  Murray Perahia/English Chamber Orchestra 

Bonus tracks are Mozart's Rondo in A Major for Piano and Orchestra, K.386, and Rondo on D Major for Piano and Orchestra, K.382.

·     Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 10 in E-flat Major for Two Pianos, K.365
& No. 7 in F Major for Three Pianos, K.242; Fantasia in F minor, K.608;
Andante & Variations in G Major for Piano Four Hands, K.501 (SK 92735) Murray Perahia/Radu Lupu/English Chamber Orchestra

Bonus tracks are theTheme and Variations on a Theme by Haydn for Two Pianos, Op. 56b, with Perahia and Georg Solti.

·     Grieg/Schumann: Piano Concertos (SK 92736)  Murray Perahia/Colin
Davis/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 

Bonus track is the Finale from Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, with Perahia, Neville Marriner and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.

·     Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (SK 92737)  Bruno Walter/Columbia Symphony Orchestra 

Bonus tracks include Bruckner's Te Deum for soloists, chorus
and orchestra, with Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic, Westminster Choir and soloists Frances Yeend, Martha Lipton, David Lloyd and Mack Harrell.

·     Beethoven: Piano Concertos No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37, and No. 5 (
Emperor) in E-flat Major, Op. 73 (SK 92738) Rudolf Serkin/Leonard
Bernstein/New York Philharmonic 

Bonus track features Serkin in the Allegro from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Pathétique), Op. 13.

·     Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major (Trout), Op. 114 (D.667)/Mozart:
Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K.581 (SK 92739)  Rudolf Serkin/Jaime
Laredo/Philipp Naegele/ Leslie Parnas/Julius Levine (Schubert) / Harold
Wright/Alexander Schneider/Isidore Cohen/Samuel Rhodes/Leslie Parnas
(Mozart) 

Bonus track is the Finale from Brahms's Trio in E-flat Major for Piano, Violin and Horn, Op. 40, with Serkin, Michael Tree and Myron Bloom.

·     Schubert: Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 99 (D.898)/Brahms:
String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 111 (SK 92740)  Isaac Stern/Leonard
Rose/Eugene Istomin (Schubert) / Isaac Stern/Cho-Liang Lin/Jamie
Laredo/MichaelTree/Yo-Yo Ma (Brahms)

Bonus tracks feature Stern in Sarabande from Bach's Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002, and Mozart's Rondo for Violin and Orchestra, K.373, with the violinist conducting the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra.

·      Isaac Stern Plays Favorite Melodies (SK 92741)  Stern plays favorite
melodies with orchestra by Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Kreisler, Brahms, Borodin, Rubinstein, Chopin, Debussy, Benjamin,
Mendelssohn, Foster, Satie, Schubert, Rachmaninoff, Dvoøák and Copland.
The bonus track features the violinist in Kreisler's Caprice viennois.

·     Vladimir Horowitz (SK 92842) Pianist Vladimir Horowitz plays works
by Schubert, Chopin, Scarlatti, Bach/Busoni, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven,
Liszt, Scriabin, Debussy and Schumann. 

The bonus tracks feature the Adagio cantabile movement from Beethoven's Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Pathétique),
Op. 13, and Liszt's transcription of the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

·     Vladimir Horowitz Plays Chopin (SK 92743)  Includes a selection of
waltzes, polonaises, etudes, ballads, préludes, mazurkas, scherzos and
nocturnes. 

The bonus tracks are the "Aeolian Harp" Étude in A-flat Major, Op. 25, No. 1, and the  Étude in E minor, Op. 25, No. 5.

·     Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (SK 92744)  Vladimir Horowitz  Includes
complete performances of Moonlight (No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2); Waldstein (No. 21 in C major, Op. 53); and Appassionata (No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57); sonatas,
 with bonus tracks featuring the first two movements of Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata (No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13.

·     Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15, and No. 2 in G minor,
Op. 45 (SK 92745)   Emanuel Ax/Isaac Stern/Jaime Laredo/Yo-Yo Ma 

Bonus track features Yo-Yo Ma in the Meditation from Thaïs with Kathryn Stott, piano.

Masterworks Expanded Edition will be featured on Sony Classical's Web site at www.masterworksexpandededition.com at www.sonyclassical.com.