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CLAUDE MONET A-P Art Book contains 500+ Reproductions of Impressionist landscapes and seascapes, still lifes, genre scenes and portraits. Includes Monet's caricatures from his teen years and the following series: At Val Saint-Nicolas, Charing Cross Bridge, Cliff at Pourville, Customs House at Varengeville, Grainstack at Giverny, Haystacks at Giverny, Houses of Parliament, Ice Floes on the Seine, Morning on the Seine, Mount Kolsaas, Palazzo Contarini, Palazzo Dario, Poplars at Giverny and Poplars on the Banks of the Epte.

Latvian violinist Baiba Skride proffers a collection of works for violin and orchestra by Tchaikovsky, the composer for which she feels the greatest affinity. Featuring the Violin Concerto, the album also includes Skride's interpretation of Tchaikovsky's triptych Souvenir d'un lieu cher, Op.42 in this rarely-heard version for violin and orchestra. She completes her musical souvenir album of the great Russian composer with two pieces from Swan Lake.

Ransom Wilson has long been recognized internationally as one of the greatest flutists of his generation. After graduation from the Juilliard School in 1973, he spent a year in Paris as a private student of Jean-Pierre Rampal. As flute soloist, he has appeared in concert with some of the greatest orchestras and artists of our time, including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony, Frederica von Stade, Jessye Norman, Thomas Hampson, Susan Graham, Dolora Zajick, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, Hilary Hahn, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Sir James Galway, and many others.