Beethoven Masterworks [51 CD][Limited Edition]

This limited edition box set of Beethoven Masterworks covers the complete range of Beethovens works in 51 CDs. The choice of recordings is quite distinct from the 1997 Edition, and CDs are presented in album form, with the original artwork of great Beethoven releases from DGs super-roster of artists.

OVERVIEW
The Edition: from Symphonies to Folksong Settings, and in between Overtures, Concertos, Piano Trios, String Quartets, Chamber Music for Wind Instruments, String Trios, Cello Sonatas, Violin Sonatas, Piano Sonatas, Lieder, Masses, rare Large Choral Works, and Fidelio

The Artists: almost all CDs are individual albums presented in the original jackets by our greatest artists. Some examples: for the Symphonies weve got Abbado, Gardiner, Kleiber, Bernstein and Karajan; for the Piano Concertos, weve got Argerich, Zimerman and Pollini; for the String Quartets Melos, Emerson and Hagen; for the Piano Sonatas Kempff, Barenboim, Gilels and Pollini

All presented in their original cover art.

Included here are some rarities like the much acclaimed Cantatas newly recorded for 1997 by Christian Thielemann and Myung-Wha Chung; and as a Bonus CD a selection of the Folksong Settings, also specially recorded for the 1997 Edition.

PACKAGING
96-page booklet, with a classic article by the great German critic Karl Schumann and artist photos

BEETHOVEN MASTERWORKS

CD 1 5
9 Symphonies
Abbado Gardiner Kleiber
Bernstein Karajan

CD 6 7
Overtures
Abbado

CD 8
Incidental Music
Karajan

CD 9 11
Piano Concertos nos. 1 5
Triple Concerto
Argerich Zimerman Pollini

CD 12
Violin Concerto
Romances
Mintz

CD 13 19
String Quartets
Melos Emerson Hagen

CD 20 22
Piano Trios
Kempff Szeryng Fournier

CD 23 24
String Trios
Mutter Giuranna Rostropovich

CD 25 27
Chamber Music for Wind Instruments
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 28 29
Cello Sonatas
Fournier Maisky

[Zweite Spalte]

CD 30 33
Violin Sonatas
Menuhin Kremer Dumay

CD 34 40
Piano Sonatas
Kempff Barenboim Gilels Pollini

CD 41
Diabelli Variations
Pollini

CD 42 43
Variations and Bagatelles
Pletnev

CD 44
Lieder
Fischer- Dieskau

CD 45
Missa solemnis
Gardiner

CD 46
Mass in C
Gardiner

CD 47
Trauerkantate
Kantate auf die Erhebung Leopolds II
Thielemann
[oder: 2 Cantatas]

CD 48
Der glorreiche Augenblick
Chung
Choral Fantasy
Kissin

CD 49 50
Fidelio
Bernstein

Bonus CD
Folksong Settings
Soloists Martineau