120 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Anniversary Edition [121 CDs + Blu-ray Audio]

 
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120 Years of Deutsche Grammophon: The Anniversary Edition [121 CDs + Blu-ray Audio]
Various soloists, instrumentalists, conductors & orchestras

[ Deutsche Grammophon / 128 CD/Blu-ray Disc ]

Release Date: Friday 19 July 2019

120 CDs telling the story of the Yellow Label, sub-divided by genre and including many recordings released internationally for the first time and recordings newly digitised from historic shellac discs

• 1 Bonus CD with brand-new unreleased recordings "The years to come" (including Trifonov)

• 1 Blu-ray Audio featuring the complete Ring des Nibelungen conducted by H. v. Karajan

• Each album presented in spined wallets with original sleeve art

• 200-page book (in E/F/G) with extensive documentation including:

1. Introduction by Richard Evidon

2. 4 substantial essays about DG's history: The Early Years, The Golden 50s, The Star Years, The Future

3. 12 shorter essays about every genre

4. Numerous photographs and facsimiles from the archives of Deutsche Grammophon

• Includes six postcards with legendary covers + 5 historic documents

A fully new perspective illuminating 120 years of recording history:

Deutsche Grammophon's unrivaled roster is divided in 12 Chapters representing the essential genres within DG's recording activities. Many genres include new compilation albums bringing together very rare early recordings including many released internationally for the first time and several recordings newly digitised from historic shellac discs:

• Orchestral (27 CDs)

• Concertos (22 CDs)

• Piano Solo (17 CDs)

• Chamber Music (11 CDs)

• Opera (11 CDs)

• Oratorio & Sacred (5 CDs)

• Lied (8 CDs)

• Archiv Produktion (6 CDs)

• Polydor & Light Music (3 CDs)

• Avant-garde (4 CDs)

• Neoclassical (3 CDs)

• Spoken Word (3 CDs)

The story of Deutsche Grammophon goes back as far as the birth of recording itself. Founded in June 1898, in Hanover its directors are Emile Berliner - inventor of both the disc and the player - and his brother Joseph. By 1900, Berliner's disc has eclipsed Edison's cylinder as the industry standard. In 1910, DG markets the earliest orchestral recording: the opening movement of Grieg's Piano Concerto with Wilhelm Backhaus. By the time of Joseph Berliner's death in 1928 and Emile's the following year, DG's annual production has reached nearly 10 million records, with the Hanover factory employing some 600 people. In 1950 78-rpm records with up to nine minutes playing time per side are introduced, based on the DG invention of variable groove spacing, and the next year the company releases its first 33-rpm long-playing records. In 1957, Deutsche Grammophon's trademark "cartouche" is introduced. 1962 heralds the first stereo recording: the Beethoven Symphony Cycle with Karajan. DG produces the first digital recording in 1979 (Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Gidon Kremer and the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Lorin Maazel) and three years later sees the introduction of the CD and the first Deutsche Grammophon title in mass production: Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Herbert von Karajan.

Since its foundation Deutsche Grammophon has always been a pioneer in the use of new technology but it is during this decade where digital technology is on a level to move beyond familiar audio and video products, and as we consume more and more music through streaming platforms the shifting landscape has presented new opportunities for Deutsche Grammophon. The history of recorded classical music is the history of Deutsche Grammophon; and since the label has always been at the forefront of innovations and home to the world's greatest performers it remains the future of classical music. Deutsche Grammophon is classical music.

"In Carlos Kleiber's hands the first movement of the Fifth is electrifying, yet still has an underlying hushed intensity...In the Seventh the symphonic argument never yields to the charm of the dance. Incisively dramatic, his approach relies on sharp rhythmic contrasts and thrustful rhythms." (The Penguin Guide to Classical Music, 2011 on the Kleiber Beethoven included in this set)

Tracks:

Includes:

Schubert - Symphony no.9
Haydn - Symphony no.88
- Wilhelm Furtwängler

Bruckner - Symphony no.9
- Eugen Jochum

Dvořák - Symphony no.9
Smetana - Vltava
Liszt - Les Préludes
- Ferenc Fricsay

Tchaikovsky - Symphony no.6 "Pathétique"
- Evgeny Mravinsky

Mozart - Symphonies nos. 39-41
- Karl Böhm

Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique
Cherubini - Anacréon Overture
- Igor Markevich

Beethoven - Symphony no.9, Coriolan Overture
- Karajan

Mahler - Symphony no.1, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
- Rafael Kubelík

Holst - The Planets
R Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra
- William Steinberg

Beethoven - Symphonies nos. 5 & 7
- Carlos Kleiber

Saint-Saëns - Symphony no.3 "Organ Symphony"
- Daniel Barenboim

Messiaen - Turangalîla-Symphonie
- Myung-whun Chung

Stravinsky - Le Sacre du printemps, Pétrouchka
- Pierre Boulez

Franck - Symphony in D minor
Poulenc - Organ Concerto
- Seiji Ozawa

Debussy - La Mer
Ravel - Ma mère l'Oye, Rapsodie espagnole
- Carlo Maria Giulini

R Strauss - Eine Alpensinfonie
- Karajan

Mahler - Symphony no.5
- Leonard Bernstein

Mendelssohn - Symphonies nos. 4 & 5
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Bruckner - Symphony no.4 "Romantic"
- Andris Nelsons

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no.2
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto no.1
- Sviatoslav Richter

Bach - Violin Concertos
Beethoven - Romances
- David Oistrakh

Mozart - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan

Saint-Saëns - Cello Concerto no.1
Lalo - Cello Concerto in D minor
- Pierre Fournier

Bach - Violin Concertos
Beethoven - Romances
- David Oistrakh

Mozart - Violin Concertos nos. 1 & 2
- Wolfgang Schneiderhan

Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor
- Nathan Milstein

Mozart - Piano Concertos nos. 20 & 21
- Friedrich Gulda

Boccherini, Tartini, Vivaldi - Cello Concertos
- Mstislav Rostropovich

Beethoven - Chorfantasie
Pärt - Credo
Corigliano - Fantasia on an Ostinato
- Hélène Grimaud

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto no.1, op.35
Haydn - Piano Concerto in D major, Hob. XVIII/11
- Martha Argerich

Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major
Schumann - Fantasy for Violin: fourth movement
- Anne-Sophie Mutter

Boccherini, Tartini, Vivaldi - Cello Concertos
- Mstislav Rostropovich

Beethoven - Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 3
- Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Brahms - Piano Concerto no.1
- Maurizio Pollini / Karl Böhm

Liszt - Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz
- Krystian Zimerman

Mozart - Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622
- Charles Neidich

Shostakovich - Violin Concerto no.1
Pärt - Spiegel im Spiegel
- Lisa Batiashvili, HélèneGrimaud

Rachmaninov - Piano Concerto no.3
Prokofiev - Piano Concerto no.2
- Yuja Wang

Vieuxtemps - Violin Concerto no.4
Mozart - Violin Concerto no.5
- Hilary Hahn

Beethoven - Chorfantasie
Pärt - Credo
Corigliano - Fantasia on an Ostinato
- Hélène Grimaud

Lost and Found (Concertos)
- Albrecht Mayer

Chopin - Piano Sonata no.1, Ballades
- Seong-Jin Cho

Ravel, Bartók
- Monique Haas

Schubert - Moments musicaux D780, Impromptus D899 & D935
- Wilhelm Kempff

Debussy - Images 1 & 2
- Michelangeli

Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Webern
- Pollini

Beethoven - Piano Sonatas: Tempest, Waldstein, Les Adieux
- Emil Gilels

Brahms - Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel
- Barenboim

Schubert - Impromptus D899, Klavierstücke D946
- Grigory Sokolov

Ravel, Prokofiev
- Ivo Pogorelich

"Horowitz the Poet"
Schumann, Schubert
- Vladimir Horowitz

Mozart - C minor Fantasia, Piano Sonatas K331 & K457
- Maria João Pires

Carnegie Hall Recital
- Lang Lang

Schubert - Der Tod und das Mädchen, Forellenquintett
- Koeckert Quartet

Haydn - "Emperor" Quartet
Mozart - "Hunt" Quartet
- Amadeus Quartet

Mozart, Debussy, Ibert, Berio
- Aurèle Nicolet

Brahms - String Quartets nos. 1 & 3
Haydn - String Quartet op.76 no.4 (unreleased)
- Melos Quartet

Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht, Streichtrio
- LaSalle Quartet

Weber - Der Freischütz (abridged)
- Robert Heger

Rita Streich sings Opera Arias

Verdi - La traviata
- C. Kleiber

Wagner
- Bryn Terfel

Mozart - Opera Arias
- Magdalena Kožená, Simon Rattle

Duets
- Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón

Bel canto
- Elīna Garanča

Haydn - Die Schöpfung
- Karajan

Mozart - Requiem
- Böhm

Bach - Magnificat, Cantata BWV 140
- Karl Richter

Schubert - Winterreise
- Peter Anders

Schumann - Dichterliebe
- Fritz Wunderlich

Schumann - Liederkreis
Wolf - Italienisches Liederbuch, Mignon
- Christa Ludwig

Music of the Gothic Era
- David Munrow, Early Music Consort of London

Vivaldi - Four Seasons
- Simon Standage, Trevor Pinnock

Bach - Ascension Cantatas BWV 11, 34, 43, 128
- John Eliot Gardiner

Concerto italiano
- Giuliano Carmignola

Early Light Music Recordings
- Rudi Schuricke, Walzer Solisten

Majesty of the Waltz
- Franz Marszalek

Weihnachtsalbum
- Fritz Wunderlich

Kagel - 1898, Music for Renaissance Instruments

Reich - Six Pianos, Music for Mallet Instruments
- Steve Reich

Wien Modern: Ligeti, Rihm, Boulez, Nono
- Abbado

Glass - Violin Concerto
- Philip Glass, Gidon Kremer

4 CDs of Early Orchestral Recordings conducted by...
Arthur Nikisch / Alfred Hertz, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer, Richard Strauss, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Victor de Sabata, Jascha Horenstein, Alois Melichar, Hans Pfitzner, Max Fiedler, Hidemaro Konoye, Herbert von Karajan, R Strauss, & Paul van Kempen

2 CDs of Early Italian and German Opera Recordings

2 CD s of Early Lieder Recordings

1 CD of Early Light Music Recordings (Rudi Schuricke, Walzer Solisten)

(Blu-ray Audio)
Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (complete)
- Karajan

plus much much more

DG 120 The Anniversary