Search - Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich :: The Originals - Legendary Recordings Vol. II [50 CD]

In 2014 Deutsche Grammophon celebrated the 20th anniversary of its flagship series, The Originals, with a limited edition collection featuring some of the labels greatest albums.

This second volume concludes the labels survey of its iconic series by presenting more legendary analogue albums. Including key recordings such as Beethovens Late Sonatas with Pollini, Berliozs Symphonie Fantastique with Markevitch, Brahmss Hungarian Dances with Karajan, Dvoraks New World with Fricsay, Chopin Preludes with Argerich, Respighis Fontane & Pini di Roma with Karajan, Schuberts Great C major Symphony with Furtwängler, the Schumann Piano Concerto with Richter and Dichterliebe with Wunderlich, Stravinsky with Boulez, Verdi Choruses with Abbado and many more.

Also featured is the complete Brahms Symphony cycle with Jochum as well as three complete operas: Bohms Le nozze di Figaro, Rigoletto with Giulini, and Der Freischutz under Carlos Kleiber.

PACKAGING
50-CD Cube - Lid-off - box

Sleeves presented in THE ORIGINALS jackets

CD covers based upon the original LP cover design, most of them with the iconic yellow cartouche.

112-page booklet including a new 2000-word essay The aura of the extraordinary by Werner Pfister (FONO FORUM, Musik & Theater reviewer, author).

Content
1 BACH Organ Works · Walcha
2 3 BACH Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin · Milstein
4 BARTÓK Piano Concertos 1 3 · Anda
5 BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos 1 & 3 · Michelangeli
6 7 BEETHOVEN Piano Sonatas 28 32 · Pollini
8 BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto MOZART Violin Concerto 5 · Schneiderhan
9 BERG Chamber Concerto STRAVINSKY Concerto Dumbarton Oaks · Boulez
10 BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique CHERUBINI · AUBER Overtures · Markevitch
11 BRAHMS Hungarian Dances DVO ÁK Slavonic Dances · Karajan
12 13 BRAHMS Symphonies 1 4 · Jochum
14 BRAHMS Piano Quartet 1 · Ballades · Gilels
15 16 BRUCKNER 3 Masses · Jochum
17 CHOPIN Préludes · Piano Sonata 2 · Argerich
18 DEBUSSY · RAVEL String Quartet KODÁLY String Quartet 2 · Melos Quartett
19 DVO ÁK Symphony 9 SMETANA The Moldau · Fricsay
20 FALLA El amor brujo STRAVINSKY The Firebird Suite · Maazel
21 22 HAYDN The Creation · Karajan
23 HONEGGER Symphonies 2 & 3 STRAVINSKY Concerto in D · Karajan
24 JANÁ EK Glagolitic Mass · The Diary of One Who Disappeared · Kubelik
25 LISZT A Faust Symphony · Bernstein
26 27 MAHLER Symphony 6 · Kindertotenlieder · Rückert-Lieder · Ludwig · Karajan
28 MOZART Piano Concertos 19 & 27 · Piano Sonata 2 · Haskil
29 31 MOZART Le nozze di Figaro · Böhm
32 PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto 5 · Piano Sonata 8 · Visions fugitives · Richter
33 RESPIGHI Fontane & Pini di Roma BOCCHERINI Quintettino · Karajan
34 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade TCHAIKOVSKY Capriccio italien · Karajan
35 SAINS-SAËNS Symphony 3 · Bacchanale · Danse macabre · Barenboim
36 SCHOENBERG Transfigured Night · Pelleas und Melisande · Karajan
37 SCHUBERT Symphony 9 HAYDN Symphony No. 88 · Furtwängler
38 SCHUBERT Wanderer-Fantasy SCHUMANN Fantasy op. 17 · Pollini
39 SCHUBERT Goethe-Lieder · Fischer-Dieskau
40 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto · Novellette · Waldszenen · Richter
41 SCHUMANN Dichterliebe BEETHOVEN · SCHUBERT Lieder · Wunderlich
42 SIBELIUS Orchestral Works · Rosbaud
43 STRAVINSKY · PROKOFIEV · WEBERN · BOULEZ Piano Works · Pollini
44 45 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphonies 4 6 Sanderling · Mravinsky
46 VERDI Choruses · Abbado
47 48 VERDI Rigoletto · Giulini
49 50 WEBER Der Freischütz · Kleiber