- The Collector's Edition -

(55-CD box-set) 
- DG - 477 8167
 


This unique collection of 55 CDs forms DG¡¯s major release in its 111th anniversary celebrations. The limited edition box set gathers together many landmark recordings ? from the past to the present. Most of them appear complete, as originally programmed, in their original cover art ? and several include additional material.

This is a great Library of Music, Artists and Recordings extending from Abbado to Zimerman, Monteverdi to Part, Furtwangler to Dudamel ? there¡¯s never been anything quite like it before! The opulent deluxe box with hinged lid opens up to reveal the neatly stacked contents of 51 ¡°original jacket¡± albums and the 140-page booklet.


Disc  1 - Claudio Abbado: Brahms, Ungarische Tanze Nr. 1-21 (Wien PO/1982)
Disc  2 - Amadeus Quartett: Beethoven, Streichquartette Nr. 7 & 15 (1959 / 1962)
Disc  3 - Martha Argerich: Chopin, Preludes Nr. 1-26; Klaviersonate Nr. 3 op. 35 (1976)
Disc  4 - Daniel Barenboim: Ravel, La Valse; Daphnis et Chloe-Suite Nr. 2; Pavane (Orchestre de Paris / 1981)
Disc  5 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli: Debussy, Preludes Heft 1; Images I & II (1977)
Disc  6 - Leonard Bernstein: Berstein, West Side Story / 1984)
Disc  7 - Karl Bohm: Mozart, Requiem KV 626 (Mathis, Hamari, Ochmann, Wien PO/1971)
Disc  8 - Pierre Boulez: Strawinsky, Le Sacre du Printemps; Der Feuervogel (Cleveland O, Chicago SO/1991)
Disc  9 - G.Carmignola: Vivaldi, Violinkonzerte RV 190, 217, 303, 325, 331 (Venice Baroque O, A Marcon / 2005)
Disc 10 - Placido Domingo / Carlo Maria Giulini: Opera Gala (Los Angeles PO, Giulini / 1981)
Disc 11 - Gustavo Dudamel: Mahler, Symphonie Nr. 5 (Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela / 2006)
Disc 12 - Emerson Quartet: Bach, Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 fur Streichquartett (2002)
Disc 13 - Dietrich Fischer Dieskau: Schubert, Winterreise D. 911 (Gerald Moore, Klavier/ 1971)
Disc 14 & 15 - Pierre Fournier: Bach, Cellosuiten BWV 1007-1012 (1960)
Disc 16 - Ferenc Fricsay: Verdi, Requiem (Stader, Radev, Krebs, Borg, RIAS SO/1953)
Disc 17 - Wilhelm Furtwangler: Schumann, Symph. Nr. 4 / Haydn, Symphonie Nr. 88 (Berlin PO/1953 / 1951)
Disc 18 & 19 - John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi, Vespro della beata vergine; Magnificat a sei voci (Monoyios, Pennicchi, Chance, Tucker, Robson, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / 1989)
Disc 20 - Emil Gilels: Beethoven, Klaviersonaten Nr. 21, 23, 26 (1971-1974)
Disc 21 - Reinhard Goebel: Bach, Orchestersuiten Nr. 2 & 5 / Pachelbel, Canon & Gigue in D/Handel, Sonate fur 2 Violinen HWV 399 / Vivaldi, Sonate fur 2 Violinen RV 63 (Musica Antiqua Koln / 1982)
Disc 22 - Helene Grimaud: Credo: Part, Credo for Piano, Choir & Orchestra / Beethoven, Piano Sonata Nr. 17 "Tempest"; Chorfantasie op. 80 / Corigliano, Fantasie (Swedish Radio Choir, Swe. RSO, E-P Salonen / 2002)
Disc 23 - Hilary Hahn: Bach, Violinkonzerte BWV 1041-1043, 160 ((BWV 1043 fur 2 Violinen; BWV 1060 fur Violine & Oboe) (Hilary Hahn, Margaret Batjer, Allan Vogel, LA Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane / 2003)
Disc 24 - V. Horowitz: In Moscow: Scarlatti, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Chopin, Schumann,etc (1985)
Disc 25 - Eugen Jochum: Orff, Carmina Burana (Janowitz, Stolze, Fischer-Dieskau, O der D. Oper Berlin / 1968)
Disc 26 - Herbert von Karajan: Beethoven, Symphonie Nr. 9; Coriolan-Ouverture op. 62 Berlin PO/1962)
Disc 27 - Wilhelm Kempff: Beethoven, Klavierkonzerte Nr. 4 & 5 (Berlin PO, Leitner / 1962)
Disc 28 - Carlos Kleiber: Beethoven, Symphonien Nr. 5 & 7 (Wien PO/1974 / 1975)
Disc 29 - Magdalena Kozena: Handel Arien (Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon / 2006)
Disc 30 - Rafael Kubelik: Dvorak, Symphonien Nr. 8 & 9 (Berlin PO/1967 / 1972)
Disc 31 - Lang Lang: Tschaikowsky, Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 op. 23 / Mendelssohn, Klavierkonzert Nr. 1 op. 25 (Chicago SO, Daniel Barenboim / 2003)
Disc 32 - Lorin Maazel: Mendelssohn, Symphonien Nr. 4 & 5 (Berlin PO/1961)
Disc 33 - Mischa Maisky: Werke von Saint-Saens, Faure, Respighi, Dvorak, Glasunow, Tschaikowsky, Bruch, Strauss, Haydn (Orchestre de Paris, Bychkov / 1991)
Disc 34 - Igor Markevitch: Cherubini, Anacreon-Ouverture / Auber, La Muette de Portici-Ouverture (Lamoureux Orchestra / 1958)
Disc 35 - Paul McCreesh: Praetorius, Christmette (Lutherian Christmas Morning Mass ) (Gabrieli Consort & Players / 1993)
Disc 36 - Marc Minkowski: Rameau, Une Symphonie imaginaire ((Suite of 20 Orchestral pieces from 11 Rameau-Operas,selected by Marc Minkowski) (Les Musiciens du Louvre / 2004)
Disc 37 - Anne Sophie Mutter: Brahms, Konzert fur Violine, Cello & Orchester op. 102; Violinkonzert op. 77 (Mutter, Meneses, Berlin PO, Karajan / 1983 / 1981)
Disc 38 - Anna Netrebko: Opera Arias - Szenen & Arien von Mozart, Berlioz, Bellini, Donizetti, Puccini, Massenet, Gounod, Dvorak (Wien PO, GIanandrea Noseda / 2001)
Disc 39 - David Oistrach: Tschaikowsky, Violinkonzert op. 35 / Wieniawski, 3 Etudes-Caprices / Sarasate, Navarra op. 33 (Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Konwitschny / 1961)
Disc 40 - Anne Sofie von Otter: Lamenti (Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (1997)
Disc 41 - Trevor Pinnock: Vivaldi, Concerti op. 8 Nr. 1-4, RV 548; Konzert fur 2 Violinen RV 516 (Standage, Willcock, The English Consort / 1981)
Disc 42 & 43 - Maria Joao Pires: Chopin, Nocturnes Nr. 1-21 (1995)
Disc 44 - I. Pogorelich: Scarlatti, Klaviersonaten K. 1, 8,  , 11, 13, 20, 87, 98, 119, 135, 159, 380, 450, 487, 529 (1991)
Disc 45 - Maurizio Pollini: Chopin, Etuden Nr. 1-24 (1971)
Disc 46 - Thomas Quasthoff: Die Stimme - Arien & Duette von Lortzing, Wagner, Weber, Strauss (Quasthoff, Oelze, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Thielemann / 2001)
Disc 47 & 48 - Karl Richter: Bach, Messe h-moll (BWV 232 / 1961)
Disc 49 - Svjatoslav Richter: Rachmaninoff, Klavierkonzert Nr. 2, 6 Preludes (Warschau PO, Wislocki / 1959)
Disc 50 - M.Rostropovich: Dvorak, Cellokonzert/ Tschaikowsky, Rokoko-Variationen (BPO, Karajan / 1968)
Disc 51 - Bryn Terfel: The Vagabond - Vaughan Williams, Finzi, Butterworth, Ireland, (Malcolm Martineau, Klavier / 1994)
Disc 52 - Rolando Villazon: Cielo e mar - Cilea, Donizetti, Gomes, Mercadante, Ponchielli, Verdi, Boito, Pietri (Giuseppe Verdi Chor & SO Mailand, Danielle Callegari / 2007)
Disc 53 - Helmut Walcha: Bach, Toccata & Fuge d-moll BWV 565; Praludium & Fuge BWV 552; Triosonate BWV 525; Partita BWV 768; Chorale BWV 645-650 "Schubler-Chorale" (Orgel Laurenskerk Alkmaar / 1958-1963)
Disc 54 - Fritz Wunderlich: Schumann, Dichterliebe, Beethoven, Schubert (Hubert Giesen, Klavier /1965)
Disc 55 - Krystian Zimerman: Liszt, Klavierkonzerte Nr. 1 & 2; Totentanz fur Klavier & Orchester (Boston SO, Ozawa / 1987) 

Detail tracklists are included in each Disc's folder as a <Info.txt> file.


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