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Available Now! Deutsche Grammophone BTHVN - The Essential Set
Posted October 22, 2021
All of Beethoven’s music – on 95 discs
To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in 2020, Deutsche Grammophon created the most comprehensive and complete set of his works ever issued.
This Essential Edition features Beethoven’s entire oeuvre in legendary interpretations from DG’s unrivalled Beethoven catalogue along with an array of treasures from Decca and many other labels.
- Over 115 hours of music
- Featuring recordings by many of the greatest Beethoven performers, ranging from Karl Böhm to Alfred Brendel, Claudio Arrau to the Amadeus Quartet, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to Pierre Fournier, Emil Gilels to John Eliot Gardiner, Wilhelm Kempff to Herbert von Karajan, Yehudi Menuhin to Anne-Sophie Mutter, and Murray Perahia to Maurizio Pollini
- More than two hours of rarities, newly recorded music including several world premieres with Lang Lang, Daniel Hope and Tobias Koch
- 95 CDs colour-coded for easy navigation
- Booklet supplement with detailed tracklists of lengthy CD programmes
Release Date: October 22, 2021
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CONTENTS:
Vol. 1 ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
- CD 1-10 : Symphonies, Overtures etc. (Abbado, Bernstein, Böhm, Chailly, Giulini, Karajan, Kleiber, Monteux, Nelsons, Szell)
- CD 11-18 Concertos (Argerich, Barenboim, Brendel, Buchbinder, Gulda, Kempff, Mutter, Pollini, Repin, Zimerman)
Vol. 2 MUSIC FOR THE STAGE
- CD 19-22: Ballet Music, Incidental Music, Dances & Marches (Abbado, Chung, Karajan, Maazel, Marriner)
- CD 23-26: Opera (Abbado, Gardiner)
Vol. 3 KEYBOARD MUSIC
- CD 27-46: Piano Sonatas & Keyboard Works (Arrau, Ashkenazy, Brendel, Cascioli, Curzon, de Larrocha, Freire, Gilels, Grimaud, Gulda, Kissin, Kocsis, Kovacevich, Lang Lang, Lupu, Perahia, Pletnev, Pollini, Uchida)
Vol. 4 CHAMBER MUSIC
- CD 47-50: Violin Sonatas (Dumay, Kremer, Menuhin, Mutter, Perlman)
- CD 51-52: Cello Sonatas (Maisky)
- CD 53-54: Flute & Other Duos (Gallois, Hagen Quartett, Tuckwell)
- CD 55-59: Piano Trios (Beaux Arts Trio, Mullova/Schiff/Previn, Szeryng/Kempff/Fournier
- CD 60-62: String Trios (Mutter/Giuranna/Rostropovich)
- CD 63-72: String Quartets (Emerson String Quartet, Hagen Quartett, Takacs Quartet)
- CD 73-76: Large Chamber Music (Amadeus Quartet)
Vol. 5 LIEDER & PARTSONGS
- CD 77-80 (Fischer-Dieskau, Schreier, Stolte)
Vol. 6 FOLKSONG SETTINGS
- CD 81-87 (Lott/Murray/Wyn-Davies/Ainsley/Allen/Maltman/Spence)
Vol. 7 VOCAL WORKS WITH ORCHESTRA
- CD 88: Vocal Works with Orchestra (Abbado, Tilson Thomas)
- CD 89-91: Masses, Cantatas (Chung, Gardiner, Karajan, Thielemann)
- CD 92: Christus am Ölberge (Klee)
Vol. 8 WORLD PREMIERES & RARITIES
- CD 93-95