Solti: Bartok [6 CD Box Set]

October 21, 2012 marks Sir Georg Solti's centenary and Decca is celebrating this with several important reissues.

Sir Georg was an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years.

In 1947 he signed his first contract with Decca - as a pianist and that same year he made his first record as a conductor (with the Zurich Tonhalle in Beethovens Egmont Overture). His last public concerts took place just a few weeks before his death in 1997 and were with the Zurich Tonhalle.

Solti was a musician with extraordinarily wide musical interests and sympathies and he was without doubt one of the most important opera conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. His legacy of recordings is dominated by opera and his recording of Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen - the first ever complete studio recording - has been described as the greatest recording of all time [BBC Music Magazine, January 2012]

CD 1
Concerto for Orchestra · Dance Suite
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta

CD 2
The Miraculous Mandarin Suite
Divertimento
Hungarian Sketches
Romanian Folk Dances
Cantata profana

CD 3
Piano Concertos 1-3

CD 4
Violin Concertos 1 & 2

CD 5
Bluebeard s Castle

CD 6 - bonus CD - historic recordings and rarities
Kod¡ly: Dances of Gal¡nta (recorded: November 1952)
Variations on a Hungarian Folksong "The Peacock" (recorded: April 1954)
H¡ry J¡nos - suite (recorded February 1955)
Weiner: Serenade (recorded: June 1997)

CD 7 bonus CD - historic recordings and rarities
Bart³k: Dance Suite (recorded: November 1952
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta (recorded: April 1955)
Kod¡ly: Psalmus Hungaricus (recorded: April 1954)
Weiner: Prince Csongor und die Kobolde, op.10 (recorded:November 1993)