Building a library of recorded music has never been so easy. From before Bach to after Bartók, here's music that you can collect -- the hits of classical music that you've always wanted to get to know intimately, and the central masterpieces that you may not know of yet. All in masterly performances from the peerless Sony Classical catalogue, and all at an astonishing low price.
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We've heard it all over the news. Dueling studies compete to define just how and how much classical music benefits the circuitry of young brains. Wise families go with what's been known for centuries: intelligent, rich lives are enormously benefited by a lifelong attachment to classical music. You can't start too early, and here's the series that makes it easy.
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W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., the oldest and largest publishing house owned wholly by its employees, strives to carry out the imperative of its founder to "publish books not for a single season, but for the years." In music, Norton is perhaps best known for The Enjoyment of Music, A History of Western Music, The Norton Scores, Music in Western Civilization, The Music of Black Americans and Source Readings in Music History.
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