50 Years: Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg

The Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg has been the scene of countless memorable musical events – operas, concerts and recitals – for 50 years. Here is a unique chance to celebrate the glories of this distinguished era.

In an exceptional collaboration with the Salzburg Festival, we have prepared a 25-CD box set – 5 complete operas, 10 concerts and 2 recitals – featuring many of the world’s greatest artists, in recordings with classical status and others that are appearing on CD for the first time.

Concerts (five out of ten are first-time releases): with Abbado, Bernstein, Böhm, Boulez, Karajan, Levine, Mehta, Muti, Solti. Soloists include Anne-Sophie Mutter and Jessye Norman. The Wiener Philharmoniker feature prominently; individual concerts with Berliner Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.

Recitals: two exceptional concerts with Alfred Brendel (first release) and the Martha Argerich/Nelson Freire duo-concert from 2009.

The set includes new liner notes in English, German and French, and photos of the opera productions and artists – 72-page booklet.

Tracklisting:

OPERAS

CD 1–3 1960
Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Della Casa / Jurinac / Güden / Edelmann / Kunz
Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 4–5 1961
Mozart: Idomeneo
Kmentt / Grümmer / Lorengar / Haefliger
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Wiener Phiharmoniker / Ferenc Fricsay

CD 6–7 1992
Janacek: Aus einem Totenhaus
Ghiaurov / Szmytka / Pedersen / Langridge / Zednik / McCauley
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
NEW TO CD

CD 8-9 2005
Verdi: La Traviata
Netrebko / Villazon / Hampson
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Carlo Rizzi

CD 10–11 2007
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
Mattei / Samuil / Gubanova / Kaiser / Furlanetto
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Daniel Barenboim
NEW TO CD

CONCERTS

CD 12 1966
Mozart: Symphony no. 40 in G minor K.550, Symphony no. 41 in C major K. 551 “Jupiter”
FIRST RELEASE

CD 13 1967
Schubert: Symphony no. 3, R. Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Wiener Philharmoniker / Zubin Mehta
FIRST RELEASE

CD 14-15 1975
Mahler: Symphony no. 8
Price / Blegen / Zeumer / Schmidt / Baltsa / Riegel / Prey / van Dam
Wiener Sängerknaben / Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
Wiener Philharmoniker / Leonard Bernstein

CD 16 1982
Haydn: The Seven Last Words on the Cross
Wiener Philharmoniker / Riccardo Muti
FIRST RELEASE

CD 17 1987
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll, Tannhäuser Overture, Tristan: Prelude, Liebestod
Jessye Norman/ Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 18 1988
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter / Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 19–20 1991
Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Cheryl Studer / Jesseye Norman / Placido Domingo / Kurt Moll
Leipziger Rundfunkchor / Schwedischer Rundfunkchor / Eric-Ericson-Kammerchor/ Wiener Philharmoniker / James Levine

CD 21 1992
Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique / Liszt: Les Préludes
Chicago Symphony Orchestra/ Georg Solti

CD 22 1994
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”; The Tempest
Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
FIRST RELEASE

CD 23 1997
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps/ Bartók: 4 Orchestral Pieces, op. 12/ Boulez: Notations
Gustav Mahler Jungendorchester / Pierre Boulez
FIRST RELEASE

RECITALS

CD 24 2007
Alfred Brendel: Haydn, Schubert Beethoven
FIRST RELEASE

CD 25 2009
Live from Salzburg: Brahms, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Schubert
Martha Argerich / Nelson Freire