We have curated 125 years of music history, we have chosen some of the most sought after recordings with the great conductors of this and the last century. We are looking back upon more than a hundred years of musical collaboration and artistic frugality. Our exclusive selection includes recordings together with Hans Knappertsbusch, Fritz Rieger, Eugen Jochum, Sergiu Celibidache, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Günter Wand, Horst Stein, James Levine, Christian Thielemann and Valery Gergiev.
With our 125 Years deluxe CD box-set we want to invite audiences around the world to join in our anniversary celebration by making our musical history accessible worldwide.
CD 1 HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 E-flat major »Eroica« Opus 55 (17. December 1953)
CD 2 HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 D major Opus 73 (13. October 1956)
CDs 3 & 4 FRITZ RIEGER
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: »Die Zauberflöte« KV 620 (26. July 1964)
Soloists: Erika Köth, Anneliese Rothenberger, Fritz Wunderlich, Hermann Prey
CD 5 EUGEN JOCHUM
JOHANNES BRAHMS: »Rhapsodie für Altsolo, Männerchor und Orchester« Opus 53 (30. April 1981)
Soloist: Christa Ludwig
MAX REGER: »An die Hoffnung« Opus 124 (8. November 1979) Soloist: Christa Ludwig
MAX REGER: »Variationen und Fuge über ein lustiges Thema von Johann Adam Hiller«, Opus 100 (30. April 1981)
CD 6 SERGIU CELIBIDACHE
SERGEJ PROKOFJEW: Suite Ala et Lolly« Opus 20 (17. January 1980)
SERGEJ PROKOFJEW: Excerps from »Romeo und Julia« Opus 64 (22. June 1988)
CD 7 ZUBIN MEHTA
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Serenade No. 10 B major »Gran Partita« KV 361 (370 a) (22. - 26. March 2016)
Requiem d-Moll KV 626 & »Ave verum corpus« KV 618 (22.-26. March 2016) Soloists: Mojca Erdmann, Okka von der Damerau, Michael Schade, Christof Fischesser
CDs 8 & 9 LORIN MAAZEL
GIUSEPPE VERDI: Messa da Requiem (2015) Soloists: Anja Harteros, Daniela Barcellona, Wookyung Kim, Georg Zeppenfeld
CD 10 GÜNTER WAND
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Symphony No. 40 G minor KV 550 (17. January 1991)
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 5 B major D 485 (18.-23. February 1997)
CDs 11 & 12 HORST STEIN
HANS PFITZNER: »Von deutscher Seele« Opus 28 (11.-16. June 1998) Soloists: Luana DeVol, Doris Soffel, Thomas Moser, Alfred Muff
CDs 13 & 14 JAMES LEVINE
HECTOR BERLIOZ: »La Damnation de Faust« Opus 24 (4.-6. June 1999) Soloists: Katarina Dalayman, Marcello Giordani, José van Dam, Roderick Earle
CD 15 CHRISTIAN THIELEMANN
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 C major D 944 »Große« (11.-15. January 2006)
CD 16 VALERY GERGIEV
DMITRIJ SCHOSTAKOWITSCH: Symphony No. 4 C minor Opus 43 (2. November 2011)
CD 17 VALERY GERGIEV
IGOR STRAWINSKY: »Symphonies d'instruments à vent« (22.-26. February 2018)
NIKOLAJ RIMSKIJ-KORSAKOW: »Scheherazade« Opus 35 (12.-13. May 2017)