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RCA Red Seal celebrates the legendary pianist Byron Janis’ 85th Birthday with the release of The Complete RCA Collection. The box set brings together his entire discography on RCA for the first time with no fewer than seven “first on CD” releases. Newly remastered from original sources, the recordings are presented in facsimile sleeves and labels corresponding to the original LP releases. Many recordings make their first appearance on CD, including a previously unpublished version of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. An enclosed booklet offers an essay by Richard Dyer based upon his interviews with Janis, numerous unpublished vintage photographs and full discographical information. Included in this box set as a bonus DVD is a critically acclaimed documentary The Byron Janis Story, produced by the Emmy award-winning filmmaker Peter Rosen. In the film, Janis recounts the story of his ground breaking concerts, which opened the Cultural Exchange with the Soviet Union in 1960 during the Cold War’s hayday. He also speaks of his discovery of multiple important Chopin manuscripts, his recent evolution as a composer, and his courage facing serious physical challenges. A bonus CD with early recordings completes the documentation of an extraordinary career. Born on March 24th 1928, Janis’ prodigious keyboard gifts led him to study in New York with Josef and Rosina Lhevinne and Adele Marcus. At sixteen, he became Vladimir Horowitz’s first pupil. By his 20th birthday, Janis had a resoundingly successful South American tour, a triumphant Carnegie Hall recital debut, and at 19 became the youngest artist ever signed by RCA Victor. The body of recorded work that Janis set down for the label between 1947 and 1959 further established Janis’ stature and provided a foundation to a long extraordinary and unique multi-faceted career. At the age of 11 a serious injury to his little finger which left it permanently numb was kept a secret. His doctors were confounded that he was able to continue performing. Then in 1973 he developed psoriatic arthritis in both hands and wrists, once more, utterly confounding his doctors by still performing and maintaining his world class career, again keeping his condition secret. In 1985, that secret became public knowledge when it was revealed by Nancy Reagan after his performance, at a White House luncheon. She also announced that Janis would become a major spokesman for the Arthritis Foundation. The Complete RCA Collection offers both Janis’ fans and piano mavens an unprecedented opportunity to reconnect and explore this inspiring musician’s virtuosic prime, from his early and assured Beethoven sonatas and incisively idiomatic Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue to the febrile intensity and lyrical repose of his timeless Schumann, Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Strauss orchestral collaborations and the effortless account of the difficult Schulz-Evler/Strauss Blue Danube that the pianist set down in one unedited take.
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J, David (24 APR 1957 - )AM=BG

Jablokov, Alexander (YAH bluh kuf) ( - )=Con

Jablonski, Peter ( - 0=P

Jaccottet, Christiane (cris tee AH' nah zhack koh TAY')
( - ) Hpscd

Jacobowski, Richard ( - )Am=G

Jacobs, Peter ( - ) P

Jacobs, Rene' (30
OCT - )Belg=ConTen

James, Carolyn (Cedar Rapids, IO - )Am=Sop, MET 1991

James, I (31 AUG - )Welsh=hornist

JANACEK QUARTET (YAH nah chek)

Jancsovics, Antal (AHN tahl YAHN choh vich) ( - )

Jando, Jeno (YEH noh yan DOH) ( - )Hungarian=P

Janigro, Antonio (yah NEEG' roh) ( - )It=Cond-cellist

Janis, (Yanks) Byron (JAN us) (McKeesport, PA; 24 MAR 1928 - )Am=P

Janoska, Aladar (AH lah dar YAH nohs kah) ( - )Clarinet

Janowitz, Gundula (GOON doo lah YAH noh vitz) (2 AUG -
)Austrian=Sop

Janowski, Marek (MAH rik yah NAWF skee) (18 FEB - )Pol=Cond

Jansons,
Mariss (MAIR is YAN sins) (14 JAN - )Latvian-Rus=Con

Janzer, Eva ( - ) Cellist

Janzer, Georges (YAHN' zer) ( - )Violist

Jarrett, Kieth (8 MAY - )Am=P-Harps'cd

Jarvi,
Neeme (NAY' meh YAIR' vee) (7 JUN - )Estonian=Con

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Jarvi, Paavo(PAAH' voh)Estonian cond. Cincinnati Sym

Jenisova, Eva (EH vah YEH nee soh vah) ( - )Czech=Sop.

Jenkins, Newell (NOO ah jank inz)(9 APR - )Eng=ten

Jensen, Dylana ( - )AM=Violinist (Married to David Lockington, conductor)

Jepson,
Kristine ( - ) (Onawa, IO)Am=Mez-Sop, MET 1994

Jeritza, Maria (YEH rit zah) (Mizzi Jedlitzka)(Brno, 1887 - Orange,
NJ, 1982)Czech=Sop

Jeruselem, Siegfried (ZEEG freed yeh ROO zah lem) (17 APR - )Ger=ten

Jiang, Danwen ( - ) = V

Jo, Sumi ( - ) Sop

Joachim, Joseph (YOH' sef yoh AH' keem) (28 JUN - )Hung=V-com

Jochum, Eugen
(OY' gin YOH' kum) (1 NOV - )Ger=C

Joeres, Dirk (YER ess)

Grant Johannesen, Grant (Salt Lake City, UT 30 JUL 1921 - Berlin, 27 MAR 2005) Am-P

Johanos, Donald (yoh HAH nos) (Cedar Rapids, 10 FEB 1928 - )Am=Con

Fmr cond. Honolulu Symphony
Dallas
Sym.,
Asst Cond. Pittsburgh Sym with Andre Previn.

Johansen,
Gunnar ( - )Dan =P

Johnson, Anita (Ypsilante, MI - )Am=Sop, MET 1996

Johnson, Emma (20 MAY -
)Eng=clar

Johnson, Graham (10 JUL - )Eng=P

Johnson, Mary Jane ( - ) Sop

Jones, D (13 APR - )Welsh=MezSop

Jones, Dame G (12 MAR - )Welsh=Sop

Jones, Philip (Bath, 12 MAR 1928 - 17 JAN 2000)Eng=trum. PJ Brass Ensemble.
P. Jones,
OBIT from London Times

Jones, Martin ( - )=P

Joo, Arpad (AR pahd YOH)( - )= Cond.

Joplin, Scott (21 NOV - )Am=P-Com

Jorda, Enrique (en REE kay hor DAH)

Jordans, Wyneke (VIH nuh kuh YOR dans)

Josefowitz, Leila (-)Canadian Violinist Also see Personal site

Josephson, Kim (Akron, OH - )Am=Bar, MET 1991

Jurinac, Sena (ZAY nah YUR ee natz)

Joseph, Bradley ( - )Am=P

Judd, Terence =P

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Junghanel, Konrad (KOHN rad YOONG hay nuhl)

Jurgens, J (5 OCT - )Ger=Con

Jurowski, Vladimir (Moscow, Russia - )Conductor. MET debut 1999-2000

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Jussi JALAS

23 JUNE 1908 Birth of Finnish conductor Jussi JALAS. Sibelius' son-in-law, born in Jyvaskyla. Armas Veikko Jussi Jalas (until 1944) aka Jussi Blomstedt. Died October 1985. He was a famous Finnish conductor and among other things, the Finnish National Orchestra and the Finnish National Opera conductor. Jalas taught at the Sibelius Academy. He also recorded as pianist. Jussi Jalas's father was architect George Blomstedt. Jalas's wife Margaret was composer Jean Sibelius's daughter.
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Contemporary Pianist and Composer KARL JENKINS

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Philippe Jordan

The young Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan will take over as music director at the Paris National Opera in 2009. Jordan, who will be 33 on October 18, will take the helm of the 174-strong orchestra of France's leading opera company, becoming the first permanent conductor since American James Conlon, who left in 2004 after nine years in the post.

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