Experience the genius of the "great musician of all time"--as you may never have experienced it before.
The Definitive Beethoven Collection
As your introduction to THE BEETHOVEN BICENTENNIAL SERIES listen to the first 6 symphonies for 10 days free! Over the years there have been many record albums devoted to various works of the immortal Ludwig van Beethoven. But there has never been a complete collection of all his works. That is why TIME-LIFE RECORDS assembled this magnificent collection in 17 volumes that contain every important work the master ever wrote-even some rare vocal pieces never before available! It's the BEETHOVEN BICENTENNIAL COLLECTION, recorded by the famous Deutsche Grammophon Company of Germany.
This feast of Beethoven is performed by such world-renowned artists as Conductor Herbert von Karajan, supreme interpreter of Beethoven's symphonic works; the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin; opera's greatest dramatic soprano, Birgit Nilsson; Wilhelm Kempff, dean of Continental pianists; silken-toned cellist Pierre Fournier; Britain's brilliant Amadeus Quartet; and the Berlin Phil harmonic Orchestra.
10-day free audition: To introduce you to this incomparable collection we invite you to audition Volume 1, the first six symphonies plus the popular Leonore Overture No. 3, for 10 days FREE. These selections were performed by the renowned Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Herbert von Karajan.
Highlighted in Volume 1 are:
SYMPHONY NO. 3 in E Flat Major-the "Eroica."
SYMPHONY NO. 5 in C Minor-The opening is probably Beethoven's most well known theme.
SYMPHONY NO. 6 in F Major-the "Pastoral."
Only the beginning: If you decide to keep the five records of Volume 1 for the low price of $19.95 plus shipping and handling, you become entitled, as a subscriber, to audition approximately every other month, future albums in this fantastic 17-volume Beethoven collection for the same low price.
Some of the magnificent works contained in future volumes are:
The 9th Symphony--a revolutionary work in that it was the first choral symphony ever composed.
MISSA SOLEMNIS--An exhilarating synthesis of symphony, opera and church music.
EGMONT--the complete incidental music to the heroic drama by Goethe.
The 16 Quartets--showing Beethoven's evolution from the classical style of Haydn and Mozart to the highly original and exciting style of the last five quartets.
No risk or obligation: To receive Volume 1 for 10-day free audition, return the post paid card. If you decide to keep it, we will include, free, the giant book on Beethoven described at right. You are under no obligation to purchase any minimum number of volumes and you may cancel your subscription at any time. Mail the attached card or use the coupon at right.
Beethoven's achievements are a reflection of the man himself, for his music is like a diary into which he poured his life, his desires, his regrets, his furies, his melancholies, and his (eves. Beethoven was at constant odes with his society--a society steeped in a stormy world of revolution. He transposed his own personal struggle to the scale of the whole human race, and dreamed of bringing to it joy and universal brotherhood.
PLUS a FREE Beethoven Volume (published at $2950) This huge, handsome commemorative volume-now out of print covers the master and his work in rich detail. Includes much material never available to the public be fore. 267 pages, 269 illustrations in color, and black and white music scores, paintings, drawings, manuscripts, etc.
TIME-LIFE RECORDS TIME & LIFE BUILDING, Chicago, Ill. 60611.
Yes, I would like to examine the first album of the Beethoven Bicentennial Collection. Please send it to me--together with my free $29.50 Beethoven book--for 10 days' free examination and enter my subscription to the Beethoven Bicentennial Collector. If I decide to keep the first album, I will pay $19.95 plus shipping and handling. I then will receive future albums in the Beethoven Bicentennial Collection, shipped an album at a time approximately every other month. Each is $19.95 plus shipping and hand ling and comes on a 10-day free-examination basis. There is no minimum number of albums that I must buy, and I may cancel my subscription at any time simply by notifying you.
If I do not choose to keep the first album, I will return the album and the book within 10 days, my subscription will be canceled and I will not be under any further obligation.
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AUDIO BASICS: The Greater Good
Source: Stereo Review (USA magazine)