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Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

by RCA (CD) (Release Date: 1989-08-11)
This all-star chamber ensemble was specifically formed to play Messiaen's masterpiece. Two decades after this recording was made, it still shows the effects of their intense identification with the music. Some listeners find Messiaen's music longwinded and difficult, and my ...
Olivier Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time

Alan Jay Lerner, Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Frederick Loewe

My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 2002-05-28)
The 2,700 performances of Lerner and Loewe's musical adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion gracefully spanned the Eisenhower and Camelot eras, then begat a wildly popular film version, whose 1965 Best Picture Oscar capped the show's decade of prominence. The crowning ...
My Fair Lady (1956 Original Broadway Cast)

Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein

South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast)

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 1998-11-10)
Based on James Michener's Tales of the South Pacific, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Pulitzer prize-winning South Pacific is one of the most beloved musicals ever to hit the stage. The appeal is simple: a collection of stunning compositions--immense symphonic sound orchestrated ...
South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast)

UltraSound - Music for the Unborn Child

by RCA (CD) (Release Date: 1999-04-13)
While many hospitals across the country send new mums and babes home equipped with discs of classical music to soothe and gently stimulate babies' tender minds, Ultrasound brings together a delightfully well-rounded set specifically chosen for those still in the womb. ...
UltraSound - Music for the Unborn Child

Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert, Chita Rivera

West Side Story (1957 Original Broadway Cast)

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 1998-09-15)
What is there left to say about this musical, deservedly one of the most famous in the canon? Created by what lyricist Stephen Sondheim described as "a unique concatenation of people" (Leonard Bernstein, Sondheim, Arthur Laurents, Jerome Robbins), the show remains as ...
West Side Story (1957 Original Broadway Cast)

A Chorus Line (1975 Original Broadway Cast)

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 1998-06-02)
Michael Bennett's 1975 tale of Broadway's gypsies--the chorus dancers--resonated with audiences as few shows ever have, examining with both hilarity and heartbreak the grueling life of ordinary performers always auditioning for an opportunity to be members of a faceless ...
A Chorus Line (1975 Original Broadway Cast)

Annie (1977 Original Broadway Cast)

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 1998-09-15)
The original Broadway cast recording of Annie still has as much charm as it did in 1977. Charles Strouse wrote the snappy music and Martin Charnin's clever lyrics capture the misery of the Great Depression, the glitter of the upper-crust life, and the character of the FDR ...
Annie (1977 Original Broadway Cast)

Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 1997-10-28)
Happy is the composer who has an advocate as passionate and talented as Leonard Bernstein. These Copland performances have been the preferred versions since they were first issued--better even than the composer's own, later recordings. Originally they were spread over two ...
Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO

Bernstein Favorites: Children's Classics

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 1991-05-03)
Bernstein Favorites: Children's Classics

Solo Piano

by Sony (CD) (Release Date: 1989-08-07)
Solo Piano