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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. As an illustrator, it was the unusual quality of Andy's drawing that drew the attention of clients and other artists, including Peter Blake: "What attracted me was a certain fluid, broken line. Matisse draws in one line. Warhol made the pen stutter. ' Before transitioning into the internationally acclaimed artist of the serious avant-garde, Andy established himself as one of the most sought-after commercial artists of the decade. His clients included virtually every fashion magazine in the NYC and the record labels Columbia, RCA and Blue Note, for whom he designed a diversity of jazz and classical record album sleeves, sometimes collaborating with the brilliant graphic designer Reid Miles and often with Julia Warhola, his mother, whose ornate calligraphy is unmistakable in Andy's early art. The first three discs of this edition present selections of the music to be found on the albums Warhol designed for record companies in the years leading up to the Pop Art Explosion; from Chopin to Moondog, from George Gershwin to Thelonious Monk. Disc Four, 'Andy's New York', provides a suitably evocative backdrop to Warhol's rise to prominence, showcasing the work of many of the pioneering jazz and avant-garde artists in the NYC of those times, including such giants as Charles Mingus, John Cage and - in the vanguard of free form jazz - a personal favourite of Lou Reed, Ornette Coleman.

1. Gioachino Rossini - William Tell Overture - NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini 2. Carlos Chßvez - Xochipili-Macuilxochitl - An Imagined Aztec Music 3. Carlos Chßvez: Danza a Centeotl from los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns) 4. Sergei Prokofiev - Field of the Dead from Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78 5. Jennie Tourel (Mezzo-Soprano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Westminster Choir / Eugene Ormandy 6. Robert Schumann - Des Abends (In the Evening) from Fantasiest?cke, Op. 12 - Arthur Rubinstein: Piano 7. Ludwig Van Beethoven - Adagio Cantabile from Piano Sonata No. 8, in C Minor, Op. 13 "Path?tique" Arthur Rubinstein: Piano 8. Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance / Boston Pops Orchestra / Arthur Fiedler 9. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Allegro Moderato from Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 35 - Erica Morini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra / D?sir? Defauw 10. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 11. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 12. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 13. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 14. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 15. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 16. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 17. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 18. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 19. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 20. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 21. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 22. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 23. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 24. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 25. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 26. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 27. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 28. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations S?rieuses, Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 29. Franz Liszt - Fun?railles (Harmonies Po?tiques Et Religieuses No. 7) - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano 30. George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue / Byron Janis: Piano 31. George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture - Arr. Robert Russell Bennett / Indianapolis Symphony / Fabien Sevitzky 32. Kenny Burrell - But Not for Me 33. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chlo? - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch 34. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chlo? - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch 35. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chlo? - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch 36. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chlo? - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch 37. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chlo? - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch 38. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chlo? - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch 39. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chlo? - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch 40. No. 1 in B-Flat Minor: Larghetto 41. No. 2 in E-Flat Major: Andante 42. No. 3 in B Major: Allegretto 43. 14 No. 1 in F Major: Andante Cantabile 44. 15 No. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Larghetto 45. 16 No. 3 in G Minor: Lento 46. 7th Avenue Express 47. Wonderful Thing 48. Rat Race 49. Top Hat, White Tie and Tails 50. Jungle Drums 51. Lady Day 52. Riviera 53. Hip Bones 54. Wind Bag 55. We'll Be Together Again 56. Bennie Green - Whirl-A-Licks 57. Cool Gabriels - Elevation 58. We See 59. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes 60. Locomotive 61. Perpetual Motion 62. Trimbas in Quarters 63. Trimbas in Eighths 64. Organ Rounds 65. I'm Glad There Is You 66. Yes Baby 67. Autumn in New York 68. Eric Dolphy ; Booker Little - Ode to Charlie Parker 69. Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Your Soul 70. Morton Feldman - Piece for Four Pianos 71. Ornette Coleman - Peace 72. Lambert Hendricks ; Ross - Cloudburst 73. Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Brief Hesitation 74. Gunther Schuller - Abstract Trio from Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee 75. John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Sonata II 76. Modern Jazz Quartet - Versailles 77. Bill Evans Trio - Alice in Wonderland 78. Luciano Berio ; Cathy Berberian - Circles 79. Cecil Taylor Quartet with Albert Ayler - Four (Excerpt) 80. Lenny Bruce - Blah Blah Blah