Sorting music by genres

Hello!
I don't understand the way music sorts in my iPhone. I bought Concert for George in iTunes and if I choose “Genres” in iTunes on my iMac it looks fine — it is one album as it has to be:
But the same album looks like separate songs on my iPhone:
And I can't listen then whole album I have to play every song separately. What can I do in that case? Yeah, it was fine in the past. I do not know what happened, or may be it is the special feature of iOS 7.0.2.

Yeah, you're right. But sorting music by genres is more convenient for me.
I just solved this problem. I put “Various Artists” in Album Artist field and it helps. In my Soundtrack section album still shows multiple times, but every unit opens the whole album. It's a bit strange but it's works.

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EndTag                     : TagLib.NonContainer.EndTag
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Disc                       : 1
DiscCount                  : 1
Lyrics                     :
Grouping                   :
BeatsPerMinute             : 121
Conductor                  :
Copyright                  :
MusicBrainzArtistId        :
MusicBrainzReleaseId       :
MusicBrainzReleaseArtistId :
MusicBrainzTrackId         :
MusicBrainzDiscId          :
MusicIpId                  :
AmazonId                   :
MusicBrainzReleaseStatus   :
MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
MusicBrainzReleaseCountry :
Pictures                   : {}
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FirstPerformerSort         :
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Lyrics                     :
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Copyright                  :
MusicBrainzArtistId        :
MusicBrainzReleaseId       :
MusicBrainzReleaseArtistId :
MusicBrainzTrackId         :
MusicBrainzDiscId          :
MusicIpId                  :
AmazonId                   :
MusicBrainzReleaseStatus   :
MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
MusicBrainzReleaseCountry :
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MusicBrainzReleaseType     :
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