This 18-CD collection unites all the recordings that Markevitch made for EMI between 1949 and 1969. Certain items have never before appeared on CD: a set of Verdi overtures; a dance-themed program of popular classics; Saint-Sa�ns: Carnaval des Animaux; Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf; Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra; Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet; Mussorgsky: Night on the Bare Mountain; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances; Handel Concerto Grosso in D; Brahms: St Anthony Variations; Luigi Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia; Markevitch: L'Envoi d'Icare; Le Nouvel �ge.