One of Esa-Pekka Salonen's early projects with Sony, this recording of Messiaen's Turangalila and Lutoslawski's Symphony No. 3, the latter being the world premiere recording, won a Gramophone Award for Best Contemporary Record in 1985.

A musical portrayal of Kokopelli, the Native American mythic hero who restores abundance by bringing forth the second summer rains. Deeply relaxing flute and guitar blend exquisitely with sounds of water in a soulful composition by Richard Roberts that stimulates imagination and creativity.

Led Zeppelin is an english rock band from the 1970's. Their 2nd album, Led Zeppelin 2, 1970, is the one which launched them into the limelight and led to several mainstream hits, such as "Whole Lotta Love", "What is and What Should Never Be", "Heartbreaker/Living Loving Maid", and, of course, "Ramble On". Their fusion of hard rock, blues, and outright innovation [or black blues thievery depending on who you ask] made this album essentially a hit list of songs that would receive heavy radio airplay for years to come. Unfortunatly, heavy distortion, though to be a result of recording or mastering at too high a volume [running the transients into the red] has resulted in many of the more intense moments, particularly Bonham's ballistic drum runs, sounding flabby and unpleasant. I must mention that despite Classic records best efforts, this distortion, which is now known to be part of the actual master tape [though apparently the multi's do not suffer from this], is still present. Classic Records co., who mastered this release, is a record mastering company specializing in audiophile Vinyl pressings [like this 200gram 33rpm example] , using a custom all tube cutting and mastering process from the original master tapes. They [CR] seek to perfectly replicate the original vinyl pressings in both sound and asthetics [cover art, liner notes, even paper texture, down to a creepy level of detail usually], while eliminating surface noise and gaining new clarity and quality of acoustics compared to standard releases. Very similar to MFSL in almost every meaningful regard, vinyl only obviously.