Music CD Box Set Review: 'Piano Masterpieces'
© ℗ 1992 Intersound Records In 1992, the now-defunct Intersound record company of Roswell, Georgia released Piano Masterpieces, a four-CD box set devoted to - you guessed it - some of the best-known compositions for piano and orchestra. Featuring works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Frederic Schumann, Franz Liszt, George Gershwin and performances by Marian Pivka, Garrison Kent, Arthur Lima, Dubravka Tomsic, Sylvia Capova, and Svetlana Stanceva, it presents compositions from various musical periods, including the Classical, Romantic, Impressionistic, and Jazz eras. Owned and managed by a music industry veteran named Don Johnson (not related to the eponymous actor) Intersound was 10 years old when it released Piano Masterpieces; starting in 1982 as a direct-to-retailers purveyor of licensed classical recordings. As a result, classical music aficionados could find good recordings by solo performers and orchestras from the Old and New World,...