Between 1970 and 1979, Herbert von Karajan recorded the incredible total of 82 CDs worth of orchestral and choral music for DG. This was the period that saw Karajan delve deeply into important repertoire that he never really tackled before or after – from Vivaldi to Mahler, to Berg, Schoenberg and Webern as well as Orff. Not to forget Christmas Concertos, National Anthems and Prussian Marches!

The box contains the core of Karajan’s repertoire as an orchestral conductor:
• Full symphony cycles of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, as well as Mendelssohn and Schumann
• The famed Mozart and Beethoven recordings that helped then teen wunderkind Anne-Sophie Mutter to become a worldwide phenomenon
• Bruckner Symphonies 4-9 and the Te Deum, recordings that are still regarded as the pinnacle of Bruckner interpretation
• Individual master recordings of 20th-century classics by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Orff (the world-première recording of De temporum fine comoedia)
• Mahler Symphonies 4-6 & 9, as well as Das Lied von der Erde, Rückert-Lieder & Kindertotenlieder featuring Christa Ludwig
• Karajan’s major Bach interpretations – among them the Brandenburg Concertos, the Mass in B minor and the St. Matthew Passion
• Fascinating forays into “rarer” repertoire, such as Baroque Christmas concertos, a collection of European national anthems as well as Prussian and Austrian marches for wind orchestra
• Delightful recordings of “light repertoire” by Borodin, Offenbach, Ponchielli, Weber…
• Plus major choral works from Mozart’s Requiem, to Brahms’ German Requiem and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem

It’s all there - 82 CDs of the original LPs, in their original cover art, most of them in their original couplings, arranged in four snug compartments.

The Book
As before, the new box offers a hefty tome as accompaniment:
• 200+ pages, containing three newly commissioned articles: 
 o one by famed Karajan biographer Richard Osborne (non-final version of text attached);
 o one by Karajan biographer Peter Uehling, tackling Karajan as a worldwide phenomenon;
 o one by Klaus Stoll, who has been playing double bass with the Berlin Philharmonic since 1965;
• PLUS a new, exclusive interview with Anne-Sophie Mutter, in which she relates the story of her discovery by Karajan and sheds light upon his defining role as her mentor.
• In addition, the book contains a Karajan timeline, a tracklist with full recording details, a discography of Karajan’s 1970s opera recordings, and many photos of the maestro at work as well as at leisure.

Facsimiles
An admired bonus feature of the 1960s release were the reproduction of original recording protocols, revealing what was going on when and where from some of the most famous recordings. Five significant “schedules” are also included in the present set.

Contents:
CD 1: Corelli, Manfredini, Torelli: Christmas Concertos / Locatelli: Concerto grosso in F minor
CD 2: Vivaldi: String Concertos / Sinfonia in B minor
CD 3: Mendelssohn: The Hebrides op.26 / Symphony No.3
CD 4: Bizet: Carmen-Suite No.1 / L’Arlésienne-Suites Nos 1 & 2
CD 5: Rossini: Overtures (La gazza ladra, La scala di seta, Semiramide, Il barbiere di Siviglia, L’italiana in Algeri, Guillaume Tell)
CD 6: Schumann: Symphonies Nos 1 & 4
CD 7: Schumann: Symphony No.2 / Overture, Scherzo & Finale
CD 8: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake – Suite / The Sleeping Beauty – Suite
CD 9: Offenbach: Gaité Parisienne (Extracts) / Gounod: Faust – Musique de ballet & La valse de Faust
CD 10: Borodin: Prince Igor - Dance of the Polovitsian Maidens, Polovitsian Dances /  Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin - Polonaise, Waltz / Verdi - Otello: Ballet Music / Aida: Dance of the Priestesses, Dance of little Moorish Slaves, Ballet Music / Ponchielli: La Gioconda - Dance of the Hours
CD 11: Grieg: Peer Gynt-Suites Nos 1 & 2 / Sigurd Jorsalfar
CD 12: Weber: Aufforderung zum Tanz / Berlioz: La damnation de Faust: Ballet des sylphes, Menuet des follets / Liszt: Mephisto Waltz / Smetana: The Bartered Bride: Polka, Furiant, Dance of the Comedians / Dvořák: Scherzo capriccioso
CD 13: National Anthems / Beethoven: Symphony No.9 (final movement)
CD 14–15: Verdi: Requiem (Freni, Ludwig, Cossuta, Ghiaurov)
CD 16: Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (Michael Schwalbé) / Concerti grossi op.3: Concertos Nos 7 & 8
CD 17: Weber: Overtures (Der Freischütz, Der Beherrscher der Geister, Oberon, Euryanthe, Abu Hassan, Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn)
CD 18: Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche / Salome – Tanz der sieben Schleier / Don Juan / Tod und Verklärung
CD 19: Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra / Vier letzte Lieder (Gundula Janowitz)
CD 20: Mahler: Symphony No.5
CD 21: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Ludwig, Kollo)
CD 22: Mendelssohn: Symphony No.1
CD 23: Mendelssohn: Symphony No.2 (Mathis, Rebmann, Hollweg)
CD 24 26: Bach: St Matthew Passion (Schreier, Fischer-Dieskau, Janowitz, Ludwig)
CD 27: Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
CD 28: Orff: De Temporum Fine Comoedia (Ludwig, Schreier, Greindl) - Rolf Boysen (narrator), Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester (this is the only recording in the entire set that is not with the BPH!!)
CD 29: Schumann: Symphony No.3
CD 30: Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht / Pelléas und Mélisande
CD 31: Berg: Drei Orchesterstücke / Lyrische Suite (3 Pieces) / Schoenberg: Variationen für Orchester
CD 32: Webern: Passacaglia für Orchester / Fünf Sätze op.5 / Sechs Stücke für Orchester op.6 / Symphony op.21
CD 33-34: Prussian and Austrian Marches (for Wind Orchestra)
CD 35-36: Bach: Mass in B minor (Janowitz, Ludwig, Schreier, Ridderbusch)
CD 37: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
CD 38–39: Bruckner: Symphony No.8
CD 40–41: Mahler: Symphony No.6
CD 42: Bruckner: Symphony No.4
CD 43: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 (Lazar Berman)
CD 44: Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos 4 & 5 / Tasso
CD 45: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5
CD 46: Mozart: Krönungsmesse / Bruckner: Te Deum (Tomowa-Sintow, Baltsa, Schreier, van Dam)
CD 47: Mozart: Requiem (Tomowa-Sintow, Baltsa, Krenn, van Dam)
CD 48: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6
CD 49: Bruckner: Symphony No.9
CD 50-51: Bruckner: Symphony No.5 / Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
CD 52: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4
CD 53: Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps
CD 54: Bach: Magnificat / Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Tomowa-Sintow, Baltsa, Schreier, Luxon)
CD 55: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 3 & 5 (Anne-Sophie Mutter)
CD 56: Resphigi: Fontane di Roma / Pini di Roma
CD 57: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
CD 58: Beethoven: Symphony No.3
CD 59: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 4 & 5
CD 60: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos 6 & 7
CD 61: Beethoven: Symphony No.8
CD 62: Beethoven: Symphony No.9
CD 63: Bruckner: Symphony No.7
CD 64: Brahms: Symphony No.1 / Tragische Ouvertüre
CD 65: Brahms: Symphonies Nos 2 & 3
CD 66: Brahms: Symphony No.4
CD 67: Mozart: Symphonies Nos 32, 35 & 36
CD 68: Mozart: Symphonies Nos 38 & 39
CD 69: Mozart: Symphonies Nos 40 & 41
CD 70–71: Verdi: Overtures & Preludes
CD 72: Mahler: Kindertotenlieder / Rückert-Lieder (Christa Ludwig)
CD 73: Mahler: Symphony No.4 (Edith Mathis)
CD 74: Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Anne-Sophie Mutter)
CD 75: Beethoven: Triple Concerto (Mutter, Ma, Zeltser)
CD 76: Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2
CD 77: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.3
CD 78: Bruckner: Symphony No.6
CD 79–80: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos 1-6
CD 81–82: Mahler: Symphony No.9