Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon And Decca – Claudio Abbado

CONTAINING

• 257 CDs, 8 DVDs, 2 softcover tracklist book and 1 hardcover-book, original jackets
• The legacy of a legend: Everything Abbado ever recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca and Philips
• Strictly Limited, Numbered Edition
• Beautiful ‘library-style’ box presentation
• Bookshelf-like inner box with albums easily accessible from two sides
• 112pp hardcover coffee table book (210x 297mm) with many specially contributed essays written exclusively for this edition:
• A new essay journeying through Abbado’s career by Wolfgang Stähr
• Reminiscences by colleagues Alfred Brendel, Yuja Wang, Evegeny Kissin, and Albrecht Mayer
• Reminiscences by Abbado’s longtime producers Christopher Alder and Sid McLauchlan.
• Also included are essays by James Jolly, Julia Spinola, Jon Tolansky and Clemens Hellsberg.
• Lavishly illustared with photos and with facsimiles of recording protocols from some of his most famous recordings
• Two tracklisting booklets (268 pages & 232 pages) with additional essays:
• “There’s always something new to discover in Beethoven’s symphonies” Claudio Abbado in conversation with Wolfgang Schreiber
• “Abbado and Bruckner” Nigel Simeone
• “Looking out into infinity” Oreste Bossini
• “Abbado and Mahler” Nigel Simeone
• “Abbado and Schubert’s Ninth” Julia Spinola
• The eight DVDs include the first DVD release of Janáček‘s “From the House of  the Dead” with the Wiener Philharmoniker

PROGRAM

CDs 1–4
J.S. Bach | Bartók
CDs 5–56
Beethoven | Berg | Berlioz | Bizet | Brahms
CDs 57–63
Bruckner I
CDs 64–80
Bruckner II | Chopin | Debussy | Dvořák | Haydn | Hindemith | Janáček | Kurtág
CDs 81–135
Mahler | Mendelssohn | Mozart I
CDs 136–190
Mozart II | Mussorgsky | Pergolesi | Prokofiev | Rachmaninoff | Ravel | Rossini | Schoenberg | Schubert I
CDs 191–257
Schubert II | Schumann | R. Strauss | Stravinsky | Tchaikovsky | Verdi | Vivaldi | Wagner | Berlin Galas | Jonas Kaufmann | Anna Netrebko | New Year’s Concerts | Schoenberg & Webern | Wien Modern I–III | From the House of the Dead (Janáček)
DVDs 1–8
A Russian Night – Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Hélène Grimaud
Claudio Abbado in Concert – Wiener Philharmoniker, Maurizio Pollini (2 DVDs)
New Year’s Concert 1991 – Wiener Philharmoniker
Peter and the Wolf – Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Roberto Benigni
La Cenerentola – Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Il barbiere di Siviglia – Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
From the House of the Dead – Wiener Philharmoniker – FIRST DVD RELEASE

ARTISTS

Jonas Kaufmann, Cecilia Bartoli, Sting, Bryn Terfel, Anna Netrebko, Teresa Berganza, Plácido Domingo, Giulino Carmignola, Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich, Anne Sofie von Otter, Shlomo Mintz, Evgeni Kissin, Alfred Brendel, Viktoria Mullova, Gil Shaham, Jian Wang, Ivo Pogorelich, Renée Fleming, Jessye Norman, Frederica von Stade, Thomas Quasthoff, Rudolf Serkin, Maria João Pires, Friedrich Gulda, David Garrett, Albrecht Mayer, Mikhail Pletnev, Gundula Janowitz, Sara Minguardo, Christine Schäfer, Nathan Milstein, Roberto Alagna, Yuja Wang, Gidon Kremer, Salvatore Accardo, Hélène Grimaud, Marcelo Alvarez, Simon Keenlyside, Kathleen Battle, Hermann Prey, Katia Ricciarelli, Siegfried Jerusalem, Barbara Bonney, Kurt Moll, Waltraud Meier, Thomas Hampson, Renaud Capucon, José Carreras, Shirley Verrett, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, London Symphony Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado

Reference: 2894862510
Barcode: 0028948625109
Label: DG