Leonard Bernstein conducts his own score on this studio recording, which features opera singers Kiri Te Kanawa and {José Carreras}. The singers [more]

In tandem with conductor Leonard Slatkin, Battle tackes nearly two dozen international holiday favorites on A Christmas Celebration, which compiles material drawn from [more]

1931-1934. A rare treasure, this CD contains two 15-minute episodes of the 1934 "Music by Gershwin" radio program (complete with laxative [more]

When the producers of the film West Side Story heard a sampling of what the Stan Kenton Orchestra had done to their score, they were disappointed that they had not thought to ask the [more]

Mass for Christmas Morning features Bagrieli Consort performing "Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning." Rather than divide the performance into multiple tracks, [more]

Ponty has worked with Frank Zappa and John McLaughlin, has provided brilliant violin work as a session player, and has had a terrific run as a bandleader. This [more]

Rhino's Sammy & Friends isn't a greatest-hits compilation, but for many casual fans this 20-track collection may be definitive, since it concentrates on his early-'60s recordings [more]

To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the gargantuan 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title [more]

Benny Goodman's January 16, 1938, Carnegie Hall concert is considered the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's "coming out" [more]

As if releasing eight single albums in 1999 weren't enough, Wynton Marsalis capped this deluge of material at the end of the year with a seven-CD mini-box of live [more]

Few if any white performers have captured the soul, heart, and emotion of the blues better than Jack Teagarden and Mose Allison. Allison has the added [more]

Ernesto Lecuona is one of Cuba's most famous composers, known mostly for his hit songs (he had many) including the immediately recognizable [more]

This Decca compilation is themed as background music for a dinner party, and features selections from composers Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart, William Babell, and Franz Joseph Haydn. [more]

Woody Herman had many talents, including being a fine clarinetist, altoist and singer. But perhaps his greatest [more]

Chaplin: Chaplin Medley; Piazzolla: Fuga y Misterio; Wilkins: Divertissement; Burke: Mysterium; Debussy: Finale [more]

Just three months before his death, pianist BIll Evans was extensively recorded at the Village Vanguard. Originally, one or two LPs were to be [more]

Clarinetist Ron Hockett's debut recording as a leader comes later in life at age 60, after hanging out in the Chicago scene studying with Benny Bailey, going to Princeton [more]

{+Kiss Me, Kate} was the most successful Broadway musical of Cole Porter's career, much to his and everyone else's surprise. Porter was thought to be [more]

After his association with CTI ended, Joe Farrell made two weak and rather commercial sets for Warner Bros., of which this LP is the second. Although Farrell gets in a few good spots [more]