This ten-CD box set contains major symphonies from composers such as Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Bruckner, Dvorak, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann and Tchaikovsky - nineteen original works in total.

Top orchestras from Europe and the United States demonstrate the high standard of their art, led by conductors of world renown: Bernstein, Karajan, Klemperer, Szell, Furtwängler, and Toscanini.

The demands in terms of sound these masterpieces present have been met brilliantly by the engineers working on these recordings and many of them have hardly been surpassed until today, making the nineteen works in this CD box the ideal foundation for a collection of the major symphonies in classical music, both musically and technically.

Contents:

CD1
Beethoven - Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.55 “Eroica”
- Leonard Bernstein / New York Stadium Symphony Orchestra (1953)
Mendelssohn - Symphony No.4 in A major, op.90, “Italian”
- Sergiu Celibidache / Berliner Philharmoniker (1953)

CD2
Dvořák - Symphony No.9 in E minor, op.95 “From the New World”
- Rafael Kubelík / Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1951)
Beethoven - Symphony No.6 in F major, op.68 “Pastoral”
- Herbert von Karajan / Philharmonia Orchestra (1953)

CD3
Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, op.14
- Igor Markevitch /  Orchestre Lamoureux, Paris (1961)
Prokofiev - Classical Symphony, op.25
- Arturo Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra (1951)

CD4
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.6 in B minor, op.74 “Pathétique”
- Evgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra (1956)
Haydn - Symphony No.103 in E flat major, “Drum-roll”
- Thomas Beecham / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1959)

CD5
Mozart - Symphony No.41 in C major, K551 “Jupiter”
- Karl Böhm / Berliner Philharmoniker (1962)
Mozart - Symphony No.38 in D major, K504 “Prague”
- Georg Solti / London Symphony Orchestra (1951)
Schubert - Symphony No.8 in B minor, D759 “Unfinished”
- Wilhelm Furtwängler / Berliner Philharmoniker (1952)

CD6
Schumann - Symphony No.1 in B flat major, op.38 “Spring”
- George Szell / Cleveland Orchestra, 1958
Saint-Saëns - Symphony No.3 in C minor, op.78 “Organ Symphony”
- Henriette Roget (organ)
- André Cluytens / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris  (1955)

CD7
Mahler - Symphony No.1 in D major
- Bruno Walter / Bayerisches Staatsorchester (1950, live)
Hindemith - Symphony “Mathis der Maler”
- Paul Hindemith / Berliner Philharmoniker (1958)

CD8
Brahms - Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68
- Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt / Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg (1967, live)
Schumann - Symphony No.3 in E flat major, op.97 „Rhenish”
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Bamberger Symphoniker (1975)

CD9
Bruckner - Symphony No.4 in E flat major “Romantic”
- Otto Klemperer / Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester (1954, live)

CD10
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op.125 “Choral”
- Hilde Gueden (sopran), Sieglinde Wagner (alto), Anton Dermota (tenor), Ludwig Weber (bass)
- Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Wien
- Erich Kleiber / Wiener Philharmoniker (1956)