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• Andy Warhol… Prince of Pop Art… Manager of the Velvet Underground… Cultural Icon.
• 4CD collection of music originally released with artwork by the legendary artist.
In 1949, the ambitious young Andy Warhola moved to New York to pursue a career as a commercial artist. “The future is New York City,” he told his sceptical mother.
Tracklist
DISC ONE
1 Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture – NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini
2 Carlos Chávez – Xochipili-Macuilxochitl – An Imagined Aztec Music
3 Carlos Chávez: Danza a Centeotl from Los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns)
4 Sergei Prokofiev – Field of the Dead from Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 Jennie Tourel (mezzo-soprano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Westminster Choir / Eugene Ormandy
5 Robert Schumann – Des Abends (In the Evening) from Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 – Arthur Rubinstein: piano
6 Ludwig van Beethoven – Adagio Cantabile from Piano Sonata No. 8, in C Minor, Op. 13 “Pathétique” Arthur Rubinstein: piano
7 Manuel de Falla – Ritual Fire Dance / Boston Pops Orchestra / Arthur Fiedler
8 The Continental / Boston Pops Orchestra / Arthur Fiedler
9 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Allegro moderato from Violin Concerto in D major, Op 35 – Erica Morini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Désiré Defauw
10 -28 Felix Mendelssohn – Variations Sérieuses, Op. 54 – Vladimir Horowitz: piano
29 Franz Liszt – Funérailles (Harmonies Poétiques Et Religieuses No. 7) – Vladimir Horowitz: piano
DISC TWO
1 George Gershwin – Rhapsody In Blue / Byron Janis: piano
2 George Gershwin – Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture – Arr. Robert Russell Bennett / Indianapolis Symphony / Fabien Sevitzky
3 Kenny Burrell – But Not for Me
4-10 Maurice Ravel – Daphnis et Chloé – Scene Three – Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles MunchFrédéric Chopin – Nocturnes Op. 9
11 No. 1 in B-Flat Minor: Larghetto
12 No. 2 in E-Flat Major: Andante
13 No. 3 in B Major: Allegretto Frédéric Chopin – Nocturnes Op. 15 – Jan Smeterlin: piano
14 No. 1 in F Major: Andante cantabile
15 No. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Larghetto
16 No. 3 in G Minor: Lento
DISC THREE
Count Basie & His Orchestra
1 7th Avenue Express
2 Wonderful Thing
3 Rat Race
Joe Newman Octet
4 Top Hat, White Tie and Tails Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
5 Jungle Drums
6 Lady Day
Jay Jay Johnson – Kai Winding
7 Riviera
8 Hip Bones
9 Wind Bag
10 We’ll Be Together Again
11 Bennie Green – Whirl-a-licks
12 Cool Gabriels – Elevation Thelonious Monk
13 We See
14 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
15 Locomotive Moondog
16 Perpetual Motion
17 Trimbas in Quarters
18 Trimbas in Eighths
19 Organ Rounds
Johnny Griffin
20 I’m Glad There Is You
Kenny Burrell
21 Yes Baby
22 Autumn in New York
DISC FOUR
Andy’s New York
1 Eric Dolphy & Booker Little – Ode to Charlie Parker
2 Charles Mingus – Better Git It In Your Soul
3 Morton Feldman – Piece for Four Pianos
4 Ornette Coleman – Peace
5 Lambert Hendricks & Ross – Cloudburst
6 Jimmy Giuffre 3 – Brief Hesitation
7 Gunther Schuller – Abstract Trio from Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
8 John Cage – Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Sonata II
9 Modern Jazz Quartet – Versailles
10 Bill Evans Trio – Alice In Wonderland
11 Luciano Berio & Cathy Berberian – Circles
12 Cecil Taylor Quartet with Albert Ayler – Four (excerpt)
13 Lenny Bruce – Blah Blah Blah…