The Complete Musician

A special artist deserves a special gift for a special occasion:
On August 23, 2011, Anne-Sophie Mutter celebrated her 35th stage anniversary - her international career began in 1976 at the Lucerne Festival - and Deutsche Grammophon honored the artist with a deluxe edition ASM35: The Complete Musician. The 40CD box, strictly limited to 6,500 copies and numbered, contains for the first time all of her Deutsche Grammophon albums in the original cover design, from her debut with Mozart (1978) to the Brahms sonatas (2010), as well as 2 bonus CDs with rare and unreleased ones Finds. Including Mutter's “Jugend Musiziert” concert from 1974. The box, developed and elaborately designed by the American designer James Benard and the artist herself, also contains an impressively compiled 288-page book in hardcover format with new texts, interviews, anecdotes from companions and over 150 pictures of Anne-Sophie Mutter - hers childhood to today.

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This chapter in the Complete Columbia Albums series showcases the end of Return to Forever's initial run that had begun on Polydor with a very different band. The best-known line-up – Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White, and guitarist Al di Meola – appears only on the first album in this set, the iconic 1975 session Romantic Warrior, which was issued in 1976 (the rest of their recordings together are all on Polydor). According to many, it is the apotheosis and end of jazz-rock fusion proper. The lackluster Musicmagic was issued in 1977 with only Corea and Clarke remaining in the lineup – though saxophonist and flutist Joe Farrell had returned from the band's earliest incarnation in the early '70s. The last three discs in this collection are made up of Return to Forever's Live: The Complete Concert, with the same basic lineup as Musicmagic. This live album had a checkered release history in the United States. It initially appeared as a single LP simply called Live – single because it had been edited down from the two-and-a-half-hour concert.