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.

Track List

1. Gioachino Rossini - William Tell Overture - NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini
2. Carlos Chávez - Xochipili-Macuilxochitl - An Imagined Aztec Music
3. Carlos Chávez: 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 Fantasiestücke Op. 12 - Arthur Rubinstein: Piano
7. Ludwig Van Beethoven - Adagio Cantabile from Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor Op. 13 "Pathétique" 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 / Désiré Defauw
10. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
11. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
12. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
13. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
14. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
15. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
16. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
17. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
18. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
19. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
20. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
21. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
22. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
23. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
24. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
25. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
26. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
27. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
28. 10-28 Felix Mendelssohn - Variations Sérieuses Op. 54 - Vladimir Horowitz: Piano
29. Franz Liszt - Funérailles (Harmonies Poétiques 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 Chloé - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch
34. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch
35. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch
36. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch
37. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch
38. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé - Scene Three - Boston Symphony Orchestra / Charles Munch
39. 4-10 Maurice Ravel - Daphnis Et Chloé - 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