ROBERT CRAFT - THE COMPLETE COLUMBIA ALBUM COLLECTION [44CD]

Sony Music

£177.10

Format: 44 x CD
Catalogue No.: 19658706112
Barcode: 0196587061128
Release Date: 19 May 2023
Genre: Classical

Igor Stravinsky's longtime assistant conductor Robert Craft would have celebrated his 100th anniversary on October 20, 2023. Here, for the first time are his complete recordings in a set with 44 CDs, a true treasure trove of repertoire, with 65 works appearing for the first time on CD in this edition, released in collaboration with the Robert Craft / Igor Stravinsky Foundation. Robert Craft's epoch-making recordings of Schoenberg, Webern and late-period Stravinsky were instrumental in making these milestones of 20th-century music widely accessible in the 1950s and 60s. Gramophone called Craft "a tireless worker for the music of our time". Robert Craft had twice won the Grand Prix du Disque as well as the Edison Prize for his landmark recordings of Schoenberg, Webern and Varese. In 2002 he was awarded the International Prix du Disque Lifetime Achievement Award, Cannes Music Festival. In addition to his special command of Stravinsky’s and Schoenberg’s music, Robert Craft was well-known for his recordings of works by Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Schütz, Bach, and Mozart. He was the first American to conduct Berg’s Wozzeck and Lulu, and his original Webern album enabled music lovers to become acquainted with this composer’s then-little-known music. He led the world premières of Stravinsky’s later masterpieces: In Memoriam: Dylan Thomas, Vom Himmel hoch, Agon, The Flood, Abraham and Isaac, Variations, Introitus, and Requiem Canticles.