Personnel:

Fritz Reiner (dir), Chicago Symphony Orchestra

· Collectors Edition

· Issued in Digipack

· 2 Original LPs on 1 CD

· Original Cover Art and Liner Notes

· Living Stereo Recordings

· Newly Remastered in 24-Bit

Prokofieff and Stravinsky were responding to an impulse deep in the Russian creative mentality when they wrote these works so widely separated by time and location. That is the cultivation of the story-telling impulse, the capacity to make music relate a story, paint a picture or depict a situation. That, to them, was Russian art, and it hasnt changed (fundamentally) since.

Heard for its own sake: this is a sonic experience in which Strausss imagination and skill, and those of Fritz Reiner and his players, make Also sprach Zarathustra not only incomparably thrilling on first hearing butno matter how often repeatedinexhaustibly rich in new revelations of sheer sound-sorcery.

TRACKLIST

SERGEI PROKOFIEFF: Lieutenant Kije, Op. 60

01. The Birth of Kije 4:14

02. Romance 4:27

03. The Wedding of Kije 2:45

04. Troika 2:38

05. The Burial of Kije 6:06

IGOR STRAVINSKY: Song of the Nightingale

06. Presto 2:38

07. Chinese March 3:42

08. Song of the Nightingale 4:06

09. The Mechanical Nightingale 0:58

10. The Emperors Displeasure at the Departure of the Real Nightingale 1:07

11. The Emperors Sickroom 3:57

12. The Real Nightingale 2:52

13. Funeral March and Finale 3:00

RICHARD STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30

14. Introduction, or Sunrise 1:30

15. Of Those in Backwaters 3:10

16. Of the Great Longing 1:43

17. Of Joys and Passions 2:03

18. The Song of the Grave 2:04

19. Of Science and Learning 3:47

20. The Convalescent 5:15

21. The Dance Song 7:35

22. Song of the Night Wanderer 4:38

Tracks #1-13 originally issued in 1958

as "Liutenant Kije / Song Of The Nightingale"

(RCA Victor LSC-2150)

Liner notes: Irving Kolodin

Photography By Ben Rose

Tracks #14-22 originally issued in 1960

as "Richard Strauss / Also Spach Zarathustra"

(RCA Victor LSC-1806)

Recorded at Orchestra Hall, Chicago

Engineer: Leslie Chase

Producer: John Pfeiffer

Liner notes: R.D. Darrell

Produced for CD release by Jordi Pujol