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Boxset includes:

9CD + 1BDA cap box, original jackets + programming

·The Byron Janis-Mercury partnership was presented in one edition for the first time, each recording presented in its original sleeve and programming

·All recordings, made between 1960 & 1964, have been restored and remastered from the original master tapes at 24bit/192kHz by mastering engineer Tom Fine (son of Mercury Vice President and Classical Producer Wilma Cozart Fine)

·The uniquely detailed and exciting Mercury recordings have been collected onto one High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc, which affords an unprecedented opportunity to hear these recordings at this resolution

·A bonus CD included in this edition, ‘Live in Leningrad’, released internationally for the first time – a recording secretly made by Janis’ Soviet hosts in 1960 and previously self-released by Janis

·The set is accompanied by a lavishly presented booklet with an exclusive interview with Byron Janis, rare photographs from the sessions, new liner notes by Jed Distler (E/F/G), and facsimiles of original Mercury advertisements

·The original liner notes (in English only) containing a detailed account of Janis’ recording tour to the Soviet Union with Mercury are available here.

Included as a bonus CD in this edition is a concert recital from Leningrad (St Petersburg) from a historic 1960 visit to the Soviet Union, recorded secretly by his Soviet hosts. Janis was the first American pianist to be sent to the Soviet Union to open the first formal cultural exchange – he would later be hailed as “an ambassador in breaking down ‘cold war’ barriers”.