111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon [55-CD Set]

Also available: 111 - The Collector's Edition 2 [56-CD Set], containing 53 completely different classic albums from the DG catalog!

COLLECTOR’S EDITION - 55-CD boxed set

Deutsche Grammophon is proud to celebrate its 111th birthday this year (December 6th, to be exact) and as part of the celebration will release a host of products designed to celebrate its rich history from the perspectives of both artistry and technology. Since its founding in 1898, Deutsche Grammophon has strived to be the leader in the classical music recording Read more industry offering the most technologically advanced, highest quality recordings of the newest, brightest stars, as well as prominent, well-established artists. DG’s 111 celebration commemorates the label’s history (it is Universal Music Group’s oldest active label) and forward-thinking ideology (DG introduced the first commercial classical CD in 1983).

President Michael Lang said, “Deutsche Grammophon remains the preeminent classical recording company—presenting the finest in recorded music by the best artists—while anticipating and fulfilling the evolving interests of its old and new audiences. Deutsche Grammophon is poised for a vibrant future as remarkable as its storied past.”

This unique collection of 55 CDs forms Deutsche Grammophon’s major release in its 111th-anniversary celebrations. The limited-edition boxed set gathers together many landmark recordings from the past to the present. Most of them appear complete, as originally programmed, in their original cover-art, and several include additional material.

Boxed set contains:

Brahms: 21 Hungarian Dances / Abbado, Vienna Philharmonic
"The playing of the VPO under Abbado is altogether exhilarating and sparkles like a good champagne." -- Gramophone

Beethoven: Quartets Op. 59 no 1 & Op. 131 / Amadeus Quartet (currently only available as part of this box)

Chopin: Preludes, Piano Sonata No 2 / Martha Argerich

Ravel: Bolero, La Valse, Pavane, Daphnis Suite 2 / Barenboim, Orchestre de Paris

Debussy: Preludes Vol 1, Images / Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Bernstein Conducts West Side Story / Te Kanawa, Carreras
"This historic set is superb entertainment and great music-making on every level." -- Gramophone

Mozart: Requiem / Böhm, Mathis, Hamari, Ochmann, Ridderbusch

Stravinsky: Pétrouchka, Le Sacre Du Printemps / Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra

Vivaldi: Violin Concertos / Carmignola, Marcon, Venice Baroque Orchestra
"No one wrote more outlandish, outrageously challenging, audience-pleasing music for the violin than Vivaldi, and no one is better suited to show off its attributes than Carmignola." -- ClassicsToday.com

Opera Gala / Domingo, Giulini (currently only available as part of this box)

Mahler: Symphony No 5 / Dudamel, Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra
"This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking performance. The accomplishment of this orchestra is little short of astonishing, and the synergy between orchestra and conductor is evident in every minute of this recording." -- Fanfare

Bach: The Art Of Fugue / Emerson String Quartet
"An ideal way to get to know Bach's last masterpiece." -- ClassicsToday.com

Schubert: Winterreise / Fischer-Dieskau, Moore
"Fischer-Dieskau and Moore were a dream partnership, both at the height of their powers when these recordings were made." -- MusicWeb International

Bach: 6 Suites For Solo Cello / Pierre Fournier [2 CDs]
"Fournier's Bach playing is crowned with an eloquence, a lyricism and a grasp both of the formal and stylistic content of the music which will not easily be matched." -- Gramophone

Verdi: Requiem / Ferenc Fricsay

Musik... Sprache Der Welt - Schumann: Symphony No 4; Haydn / Furtwängler, Berlin Philharmonic
"The Schumann is one of the classics of the gramophone: a vibrant performance." -- BBC Music

Monteverdi: Vespro Della Beata Vergine / John Eliot Gardiner [2 CDs]

Beethoven: Sonaten "Waldstein", "Les Adieux" / Emil Gilels
"Immediately establishes a claim to being one of the most desirable of all Beethoven piano sonata collections." -- Gramophone

Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue; Bach, Handel, Vivaldi / Goebel, Musica Antiqua Köln

Credo / Grimaud, Salonen, Swedish Radio
"Great fun, beautifully played, and a very cleverly assembled program that offers more than the sum of its highly diverse parts." -- ClassicsToday.com

Bach: Violin Concertos / Hahn, Kahane, Los Angeles CO
"This is Bach playing of truly extraordinary quality." -- ClassicsToday.com

Horowitz In Moscow

Orff: Carmina Burana / Jochum, Janowitz, Stolze, Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
"Jochum's performance has consistently been a prime recommendation for this much-recorded piece. Listening to it again in the superbly remastered sound, one can easily hear why." -- Gramophone

Beethoven: Symphony No 9 / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

Beethoven: Piano Concertos No 4 & 5 / Kempff, Leitner, Berlin Philharmonic

Beethoven: Symphonies No 5 & 7 / Kleiber, Vienna Philharmonic
"It is wonderful to have these two legendary performances so expertly restored and placed together on one disc." -- Gramophone

Ah! Mio Cor - Handel Arias / Kožená, Marcon, Venice Baroque Orchestra
"One of the most satisfying Handel recitals, or even Baroque recitals, I have encountered in a long time. Kožená brings the listener deeply inside Handel’s genius." -- Fanfare

Dvo?ák: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 / Kubelik, Berlin Philharmonic
"Kubelik's performances of the last Dvo?ák symphonies are also among the finest ever recorded, superbly played." -- Penguin Guide

Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn: First Piano Concertos / Lang Lang, Barenboim, Chicago

Mendelssohn: Symphonies No 4 & 5 / Maazel, Berlin Philharmonic (currently only available as part of this box)

Adagio - Mischa Maisky
"Solo playing of the very first order." -- Gramophone

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique / Markevitch, Lamoureux
"This is a singularly compulsive reading -- a real performance, which grips this listener unreservedly." -- Gramophone

Praetorius: Mass For Christmas Morning / McCreesh, Gabrieli Consort & Players
"A refreshing antidote to all those unimaginative festive compilations, this beautifully presented disc demands your attention." -- MusicWeb International

Rameau - Une Symphonie Imaginaire / Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre
"If you love Rameau's instrumental music, you will want this disc. It's really marvelous." -- ClassicsToday.com

Brahms: Violin Concerto, Double Concerto / Mutter, Meneses, Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic

Anna Netrebko - Opera Arias / Noseda, Vienna Philharmonic
"In her recital debut, Anna Netrebko sings an impressive and difficult collection of arias and comes off like a champion." -- Fanfare

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto; Wieniawski, Sarasate / David Oistrakh (currently only available as part of this box)

Lamenti - Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Purcell / Anne Sofie von Otter
"This fine and much-lauded artist adds to her laurels with this issue, which belies any doom and gloom suggested by its title with singing of an intensity of expression, subtlety of nuance and rich palette of vocal colour that leave one full of admiration. An outstanding disc." -- Gramophone

Vivaldi: Four Seasons / Standage, Pinnock, English Concert

Chopin: Nocturnes / Maria João Pires [2 CDs] (currently only available as part of this box)

Scarlatti: Sonaten / Ivo Pogorelich

Chopin: Etudes / Maurizio Pollini
"Splendidly fresh, vividly characterized accounts, masterly and with the sound eminently present." -- Penguin Guide

Evening Star - German Opera Arias / Thomas Quasthoff
"Thomas Quasthoff puts us in his debt with a recital wholly out of the ordinary, executed confidently in singing of such strength and beauty as to almost silence criticism." -- Gramophone

Bach: Mass In B Minor / Fischer-Dieskau, Richter, Munich Bach Orchestra [2 CDs]

Dvo?ák: Cello Concerto; Tchaikovsky / Rostropovich, Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic
"The Rostropovich/Karajan partnership is an inspired one and these are great performances." -- Gramophone

The Vagabond / Bryn Terfel
"One after another, these songs are brought to a full life. There is a boldness about Terfel's art that is marvellously well guided by musicianship, intelligence and the genuine flash of inspiration." -- Gramophone

Cielo e mar - Rolando Villazón
"This recital is simply glorious. Villazón's curiosity and musicianship set him apart in a crowded field. Bravo!" -- ClassicsToday.com

Bach: Organ Works / Helmut Walcha
"Walcha's carefully calculated interpretations create a genuine sense of organic unity and a deeply musical sense of line and phrase, which gains from felicitous registration using highly suitable organs, splendidly recorded." -- Penguin Guide

Schumann: Dichterliebe / Fritz Wunderlich
"One of the most beautiful lyric tenor voices of the 20th century." -- MusicWeb International

Liszt: Piano Concertos 1 & 2, Totentanz / Zimerman, Ozawa, Boston

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2, 6 Preludes / Sviatoslav Richter (currently only available as part of this box)

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1. Hungarian Dances (21) for Orchestra, WoO 1 by Johannes Brahms

Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868-1880; Austria

2. Quartet for Strings no 7 in F major, Op. 59 no 1 "Razumovsky" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Orchestra/Ensemble: Amadeus String Quartet
Written: 1805-6

3. Quartet for Strings no 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 131 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Written: 1826

4. Boléro by Maurice Ravel

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1928; France

5. Pavane pour une infante défunte by Maurice Ravel

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1899; France

6. La valse by Maurice Ravel

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1920; France

7. Daphnis et Chloé Suite no 2 by Maurice Ravel

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1913; France

8. Symphony no 4 in A major, Op. 90 "Italian" by Felix Mendelssohn

Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1833; Germany

9. Symphony no 5 in D major, Op. 107 "Reformation" by Felix Mendelssohn

Conductor: Lorin Maazel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1832; Germany

10. Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 35 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor: Franz Konwitschny
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Russia

11. Etudes-Caprices (8) for 2 Violins, Op. 18: no 2 in E flat major by Henri Wieniawski

Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin), Igor Oistrakh (Violin)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; St. Petersburg, Russ

12. Etudes-Caprices (8) for 2 Violins, Op. 18: no 4 in A minor by Henri Wieniawski

Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin), Igor Oistrakh (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; St. Petersburg, Russ

13. Etudes-Caprices (8) for 2 Violins, Op. 18: no 5 in E flat major by Henri Wieniawski

Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin), Igor Oistrakh (Violin)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; St. Petersburg, Russ

14. Navarra for 2 Violins and Piano, Op. 33 by Pablo de Sarasate

Performer: David Oistrakh (Violin), Igor Oistrakh (Violin)
Conductor: Franz Konwitschny
Orchestra/Ensemble: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1899

15. Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18 by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: Russia

16. Preludes (13) for Piano, Op. 32: no 1 in C major, Allegro vivace by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1910; Russia

17. Preludes (13) for Piano, Op. 32: no 2 in B flat minor, Allegretto by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1910; Russia

18. Preludes (10) for Piano, Op. 23: no 2 in B flat major, Maestoso by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901-1903; Russia

19. Preludes (10) for Piano, Op. 23: no 4 in D major, Andante cantabile by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1903; Russia

20. Preludes (10) for Piano, Op. 23: no 5 in G minor, Alla marcia by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901; Russia

21. Preludes (10) for Piano, Op. 23: no 7 in C minor, Allegro by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901-1903; Russia

22. Preludes (24) for Piano, Op. 28 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Martha Argerich (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1836-1839; Paris, France

23. Prelude for Piano in C sharp minor, B 141/Op. 45 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Martha Argerich (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1841; Paris, France

24. Prelude for Piano in A flat major, B 86 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Martha Argerich (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1834; Paris, France

25. Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, B 128/Op. 35 "Funeral March" by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Martha Argerich (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837-1839; Paris, France

26. Préludes, Book 1 by Claude Debussy

Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1909-1910; France

27. Images for Piano, Set 1 by Claude Debussy

Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1905; France

28. Images for Piano, Set 2 by Claude Debussy

Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1907; France

29. West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein

Performer: Marilyn Horne (Mezzo Soprano), Louise Edeiken (Soprano), José Carreras (Tenor),
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (Soprano), Nina Bernstein (Spoken Vocals), Angelina Réaux (Soprano),
Stella Zambalis (Soprano), David Livingston (Voice), Marty Nelson (Voice),
Stephen Bogardus (Voice), Alexander Bernstein (Spoken Vocals), Kurt Ollmann (Baritone),
Tatiana Troyanos (Mezzo Soprano), Peter Thom (Voice), Tod Lester (Voice),
Richard Harrell (Voice)
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestra, Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1957; USA
Date of Recording: 09/1984
Venue: RCA Studio A, New York, NY
Length: 76 Minutes 36 Secs.
Language: English

30. Requiem in D minor, K 626 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Performer: Julia Hamari (Alto), Karl Ridderbusch (Bass), Edith Mathis (Soprano),
Wieslaw Ochman (Tenor)
Conductor: Karl Böhm
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Concert Choir
Period: Classical
Written: 1791; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1971
Length: 64 Minutes 26 Secs.
Language: Latin

31. Pétrouchka by Igor Stravinsky

Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: Switzerland
Date of Recording: 03/1991
Venue: Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland
Length: 34 Minutes 58 Secs.

32. Le sacre du printemps by Igor Stravinsky

Conductor: Pierre Boulez
Orchestra/Ensemble: Cleveland Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911-1913
Date of Recording: 03/1991
Venue: Masonic Auditorium, Cleveland
Length: 33 Minutes 29 Secs.

33. Concerto for Violin in C major, RV 190 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Giuliano Carmignola (Violin)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
Date of Recording: 01/2006
Venue: Gustav Mahler Hall, Toblach, Italy
Length: 14 Minutes 3 Secs.

34. Concerto for Violin in D major, RV 217 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Giuliano Carmignola (Violin)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
Date of Recording: 01/2006
Venue: Gustav Mahler Hall, Toblach, Italy
Length: 12 Minutes 29 Secs.

35. Concerto for Violin in G minor, RV 331 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Giuliano Carmignola (Violin)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 01/2006
Venue: Gustav Mahler Hall, Toblach, Italy
Length: 12 Minutes 57 Secs.

36. Concerto for Violin in G minor, RV 325 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Giuliano Carmignola (Violin)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
Date of Recording: 01/2006
Venue: Gustav Mahler Hall, Toblach, Italy
Length: 7 Minutes 32 Secs.

37. Concerto for Violin in G major, RV 303 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Giuliano Carmignola (Violin)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
Date of Recording: 01/2006
Venue: Gustav Mahler Hall, Toblach, Italy
Length: 12 Minutes 20 Secs.

38. L'Elisir d'Amore: Una furtiva lagrima by Gaetano Donizetti

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1832; Italy
Language: Italian

39. Lucia di Lammermoor: Fra poco a me ricovero by Gaetano Donizetti

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1835; Italy
Language: Italian

40. Ernani: Mercè, diletti amici...Come rugiada al cospite by Giuseppe Verdi

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1844; Italy
Language: Italian

41. Il trovatore: Ah si, ben mio...Di quella pira by Giuseppe Verdi

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1853; Italy
Language: Italian

42. La juive: Rachel, quand du Seigneur by Jacques Halévy

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1835; Paris, France
Language: French

43. L'Africaine: O paradis sorti de l'onde by Giacomo Meyerbeer

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1865; Germany
Language: French

44. Les pêcheurs de perles: Je crois entendre encore by Georges Bizet

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863; France
Language: French

45. Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée "Flower song" by Georges Bizet

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Roger Wagner Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873-1874; France
Language: German

46. Aida: Celeste Aida by Giuseppe Verdi

Performer: Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1871; Italy
Language: Italian

47. Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor by Gustav Mahler

Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela
Period: Romantic
Written: 1901-1902; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 02/2006
Venue: Aula Magna, Caracas, Venezuela
Length: 69 Minutes 25 Secs.

48. The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Philip Setzer (Violin), Eugene Drucker (Violin), Lawrence Dutton (Viola),
David Finckel (Cello)
Orchestra/Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1745-1750; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 2003
Venue: American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC
Length: 80 Minutes 8 Secs.

49. Winterreise, D 911/Op. 89 by Franz Schubert

Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone), Gerald Moore (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1827; Vienna, Austria
Language: German

50. Suite for Cello solo no 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Pierre Fournier (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 25 Minutes 28 Secs.

51. Suite for Cello solo no 1 in G major, BWV 1007 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Pierre Fournier (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 18 Minutes 45 Secs.

52. Suite for Cello solo no 3 in C major, BWV 1009 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Pierre Fournier (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 23 Minutes 4 Secs.

53. Suite for Cello solo no 5 in C minor, BWV 1011 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Pierre Fournier (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 24 Minutes 51 Secs.

54. Suite for Cello solo no 6 in D major, BWV 1012 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Pierre Fournier (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 27 Minutes 3 Secs.

55. Suite for Cello solo no 2 in D minor, BWV 1008 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Pierre Fournier (Cello)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1720; Cöthen, Germany
Length: 19 Minutes 4 Secs.

56. Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi

Performer: Maria Stader (Soprano), Marianna Radev (Alto), Helmut Krebs (Tenor),
Kim Borg (Bass)
Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin RIAS Chamber Chorus, St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1874; Italy
Date of Recording: 09/1953
Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 75 Minutes 28 Secs.
Language: Latin

57. Symphony no 4 in D minor, Op. 120 by Robert Schumann

Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Germany
Date of Recording: 05/14/1953
Venue: Live Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 30 Minutes 56 Secs.

58. Symphony no 88 in G major, H 1 no 88 by Franz Joseph Haydn

Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: circa 1787 ; Eszterhazá, Hungary
Date of Recording: 12/05/1951
Venue: Live Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 21 Minutes 4 Secs.

59. Vespro della Beata Vergine by Claudio Monteverdi

Performer: Marinella Pennicchi (Soprano), Michael Chance (Countertenor), Mark Tucker (Tenor),
Bryn Terfel (Bass), Sandro Naglia (Tenor), Nigel Robson (Tenor),
Alastair Miles (Bass), Ann Monoyios (Soprano)
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts ...
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1610; Mantua, Italy
Date of Recording: 05/1989
Venue: Live St Mark's Basilica, Venice
Length: 89 Minutes 7 Secs.
Language: Latin

60. Vespro della Beata Vergine: Magnificat a 7 by Claudio Monteverdi

Performer: Marinella Pennicchi (Soprano), Michael Chance (Countertenor), Mark Tucker (Tenor),
Nigel Robson (Tenor), Sandro Naglia (Tenor), Ann Monoyios (Soprano),
Bryn Terfel (Bass), Alastair Miles (Bass)
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, London Oratory Junior Choir
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1610; Mantua, Italy
Date of Recording: 07/1989
Venue: Live All Saints' Church, Tooting, London
Length: 18 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: Latin

61. Sonata for Piano no 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Emil Gilels (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1803-1804; Vienna, Austria

62. Sonata for Piano no 26 in E flat major, Op. 81a "Les Adieux" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Emil Gilels (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1809-1810; Vienna, Austria

63. Sonata for Piano no 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Emil Gilels (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1804-1805; Vienna, Austria

64. Canon and Gigue for 3 Violins and Basso Continuo in D major by Johann Pachelbel

Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: Germany
Date of Recording: 1983
Venue: Friedrich Ebert Hall, Hamburg - Harburg
Length: 4 Minutes 42 Secs.

65. Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo in D minor, Op. 1 no 12/RV 63 "La Follia" by Antonio Vivaldi

Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: 1705; Venice, Italy
Date of Recording: 1982
Venue: Friedrich Ebert Hall, Hamburg - Harburg
Length: 8 Minutes 45 Secs.

66. Trio Sonatas (7) for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 5: no 4 in G major, HWV 399 by George Frideric Handel

Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1737-1738; London, England
Date of Recording: 1983
Venue: Friedrich Ebert Hall, Hamburg - Harburg
Length: 13 Minutes 1 Secs.

67. Suite for Orchestra no 2 in B minor, BWV 1067 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: 1738-1739; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 1982
Venue: Friedrich Ebert Hall, Hamburg - Harburg
Length: 22 Minutes 8 Secs.

68. Fantasia on an Ostinato by John Corigliano

Performer: Hélène Grimaud (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1985; USA
Date of Recording: 09/2003
Venue: Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden
Length: 12 Minutes 4 Secs.

69. Sonata for Piano no 17 in D minor, Op. 31 no 2 "Tempest" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Hélène Grimaud (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1802; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 09/2003
Venue: Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden
Length: 21 Minutes 58 Secs.

70. Fantasia in C minor, Op. 80 "Choral Fantasy" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Hélène Grimaud (Piano)
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestra/Ensemble: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Chorus
Period: Classical
Written: 1808; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 09/2003
Venue: Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden
Length: 19 Minutes 3 Secs.
Language: German

71. Credo by Arvo Pärt

Performer: Hélène Grimaud (Piano)
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Orchestra/Ensemble: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Swedish Radio Chorus
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1968; Estonia
Date of Recording: 09/2003
Venue: Live Sveriges Radio, Stockholm, Sweden
Length: 15 Minutes 16 Secs.
Language: Latin

72. Concerto for Violin no 2 in E major, BWV 1042 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Hilary Hahn (Violin)
Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Date of Recording: 10/2002
Venue: Colburn School of Performing Arts, CA
Length: 16 Minutes 29 Secs.

73. Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Margaret Batjer (Violin), Hilary Hahn (Violin)
Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Date of Recording: 10/2002
Venue: Colburn School of Performing Arts, CA
Length: 14 Minutes 18 Secs.

74. Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, BWV 1041 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Hilary Hahn (Violin)
Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1717-1723; Cöthen, Germany
Date of Recording: 01/2003
Venue: Colburn School of Performing Arts, CA
Length: 13 Minutes 29 Secs.

75. Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Allan Vogel (Oboe), Hilary Hahn (Violin)
Conductor: Jeffrey Kahane
Orchestra/Ensemble: Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 01/2003
Venue: Colburn School of Performing Arts, CA
Length: 13 Minutes 6 Secs.

76. Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 380/L 23 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 4 Minutes 0 Secs.

77. Sonata for Piano no 10 in C major, K 330 (300h) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Classical
Written: 1781-1783
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 17 Minutes 0 Secs.

78. Preludes (13) for Piano, Op. 32: no 5 in G major, Moderato by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1910; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 2 Minutes 49 Secs.

79. Preludes (13) for Piano, Op. 32: no 12 in G sharp minor, Allegro by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1910; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 2 Minutes 33 Secs.

80. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 8: no 12 in D sharp minor by Alexander Scriabin

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1894; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 2 Minutes 9 Secs.

81. Pieces (3) for Piano, Op. 2: no 1, Etude in C sharp minor by Alexander Scriabin

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1887-1889; Russia
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 2 Minutes 39 Secs.

82. Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année, S 161 "Italie": no 5, Sonetto 104 del Petrarca by Franz Liszt

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837-1849; Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 5 Minutes 33 Secs.

83. Soirées de Vienne (9) after Schubert, S 427: no 6 by Franz Liszt

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1852; Weimar, Germany
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 6 Minutes 33 Secs.

84. Mazurkas (5) for Piano, B 61/Op. 7: no 3 in F minor by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1831; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 2 Minutes 15 Secs.

85. Mazurkas (4) for Piano, B 105/Op. 30: no 4 in C sharp minor by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1836-1837; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 3 Minutes 33 Secs.

86. Kinderszenen, Op. 15: no 7, Träumerei by Robert Schumann

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1838; Germany
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 2 Minutes 24 Secs.

87. Characteristic Pieces (8), Op. 36: no 6, Etincelles by Moritz Moszkowski

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: Germany
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 2 Minutes 38 Secs.

88. Lachtäubchen (Behr) "Polka de W.R." by Sergei Rachmaninov

Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1911
Date of Recording: 04/1986
Venue: Live Great Hall, Tchaikovsky Consv, Moscow
Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs.

89. Carmina burana by Carl Orff

Performer: Gundula Janowitz (Soprano), Gerhard Stolze (Tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone)
Conductor: Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble: Schöneberg Boys Choir, Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus, Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1936; Germany
Date of Recording: 10/1967
Venue: UFA-Studio, Berlin, Germany
Length: 56 Minutes 15 Secs.
Language: Latin

90. Symphony no 9 in D minor, Op. 125 "Choral" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Walter Berry (Bass Baritone), Gundula Janowitz (Soprano), Hilde Rössl-Majdan (Mezzo Soprano),
Waldemar Kmentt (Tenor)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Singverein
Period: Classical
Written: 1822-1824; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1962
Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 66 Minutes 47 Secs.
Language: German

91. Coriolan Overture in C minor, Op. 62 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1807; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 09/1965
Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 9 Minutes 0 Secs.

92. Concerto for Piano no 4 in G major, Op. 58 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Wilhelm Kempff (Piano)
Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1806; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 07/1961
Venue: UFA-Studio, Berlin, Germany
Length: 32 Minutes 34 Secs.

93. Concerto for Piano no 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 "Emperor" by Ludwig van Beethoven

Performer: Wilhelm Kempff (Piano)
Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1809; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 07/1961
Venue: UFA-Studio, Berlin, Germany
Length: 38 Minutes 26 Secs.

94. Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Carlos Kleiber
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1807-1808; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1974
Venue: Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Length: 33 Minutes 22 Secs.

95. Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92 by Ludwig van Beethoven

Conductor: Carlos Kleiber
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1811-1812; Vienna, Austria
Venue: Musikverein, Vienna, Austria
Length: 38 Minutes 36 Secs.

96. Alcina, HWV 34: Ah! mio cor! schemito sei! by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1735; London, England

97. Agrippina, HWV 6: Excerpt(s) by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1709; Italy

98. Giulio Cesare, HWV 17: Cara speme, questo core by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1724; London, England

99. Joshua, HWV 64: O had I Jubal's lyre by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1748; London, England

100. Ariodante, HWV 33: Scherza infida, in grembo al drudo by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1734-1735; London, England

101. Amadigi di Gaula, HWV 11: Desterò dall' empia Dite by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1715; London, England

102. Ariodante, HWV 33: Dopo notte by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1734-1735; London, England

103. Rinaldo, HWV 7: Armida dispietata...Lascia ch'io pianga mia cruda sorte by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1711; London, England

104. Hercules, HWV 60: Where shall I fly? by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1744; London, England

105. Agrippina, HWV 6: Pensieri, voi mi tormente by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1709; Venice, Italy

106. Theodora, HWV 68: With Darkness deep by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1749-1750; London, England

107. Orlando, HWV 31: Ah! Stigie larve!...Vaghe pupille by George Frideric Handel

Performer: Magdalena Kozená (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra/Ensemble: Venice Baroque Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1733; London, England

108. Symphony no 8 in G major, Op. 88/B 163 by Antonín Dvorák

Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1889; Bohemia
Date of Recording: 06/1966
Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 35 Minutes 44 Secs.

109. Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op. 95/B 178 "From the New World" by Antonín Dvorák

Conductor: Rafael Kubelik
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1893; USA
Date of Recording: 06/1972
Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 42 Minutes 35 Secs.

110. Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Performer: Lang Lang (Piano)
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: Russia
Date of Recording: 02/2003
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 38 Minutes 25 Secs.

111. Concerto for Piano no 1 in G minor, Op. 25 by Felix Mendelssohn

Performer: Lang Lang (Piano)
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Orchestra/Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1831; Germany
Date of Recording: 02/2003
Venue: Orchestra Hall, Chicago, Illinois
Length: 20 Minutes 50 Secs.

112. Carnival of the animals: no 13, The swan by Camille Saint-Saëns

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: Romantic
Written: 1886; France
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 3 Minutes 57 Secs.

113. Elégie for Cello and Piano, Op. 24 by Gabriel Fauré

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: Romantic
Written: 1880; France
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 6 Minutes 26 Secs.

114. Adagio con variazioni for Cello and Orchestra by Ottorino Respighi

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1920; Rome, Italy
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 12 Minutes 54 Secs.

115. From the Bohemian forest, Op. 68/B 133: no 5, Silent Woods by Antonín Dvorák

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: Romantic
Written: Bohemia
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 6 Minutes 8 Secs.

116. Chant du ménéstrel, Op. 71 by Alexander Glazunov

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Written: 1900
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 4 Minutes 29 Secs.

117. Morceaux (6) for Piano, Op. 19: no 4, Nocturne in C sharp minor by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873; Russia
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 4 Minutes 40 Secs.

118. Kol Nidrei for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 47 by Max Bruch

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: Romantic
Written: 1881; Liverpool, England
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 10 Minutes 49 Secs.

119. Die ägyptische Helena, Op. 75 by Richard Strauss

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: Romantic
Written: 1923-1927; Germany
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 12 Minutes 45 Secs.

120. Concerto for Violin no 1 in C major, H 7a no 1: 2nd movement, Adagio by Franz Joseph Haydn

Performer: Mischa Maisky (Cello)
Conductor: Semyon Bychkov
Orchestra/Ensemble: Orchestre de Paris
Period: Classical
Written: by 1769
Date of Recording: 06/1991
Venue: Salle Wagram, Paris
Length: 6 Minutes 11 Secs.

121. Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 by Hector Berlioz

Conductor: Igor Markevitch
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lamoureux Concerts Association Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1830; France
Date of Recording: 01/1961
Venue: Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
Length: 52 Minutes 12 Secs.

122. Anacréon: Overture by Luigi Cherubini

Conductor: Igor Markevitch
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lamoureux Concerts Association Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1803; France
Date of Recording: 01/1961
Venue: Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
Length: 9 Minutes 44 Secs.

123. La muette de Portici: Overture by Daniel-François Auber

Conductor: Igor Markevitch
Orchestra/Ensemble: Lamoureux Concerts Association Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1828; France
Date of Recording: 01/1961
Venue: Salle de la Mutualité, Paris
Length: 8 Minutes 18 Secs.

124. Christum wir sollen loben schon by Martin Luther

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany
Language: German

125. Praeambulum for Organ by Anonymous

Performer: Timothy Roberts (Organ)

126. Wir gläuben all an einen Gott by Martin Luther

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: 16th Century; Germany

127. Resonet in laudibus by Anonymous

Performer: Timothy Roberts (Organ)
Period: Renaissance
Written: circa 1470

128. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern by Samuel Scheidt

Performer: Timothy Roberts (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1650; Germany

129. Banchetto musicale: Canzon a 5 in A minor by Johann Hermann Schein

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Players
Period: Baroque
Written: 1609; Leipzig, Germany

130. Puer natus in Bethlehem by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Roskilde Cathedral Boys' Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1619; Germany
Language: Latin

131. Polyhymnia caduceatrix et panegyrica: Missa gantz Teudsch - Kyrie by Michael Praetorius

Performer: Sarah Pendlebury (Soprano), Tessa Bonner (Soprano), Tom Phillips (Tenor),
Angus Smith (Tenor)
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1619; Germany
Language: German

132. Polyhymnia caduceatrix et panegyrica: Missa gantz Teudsch - Gloria by Michael Praetorius

Performer: Tessa Bonner (Soprano), Robert Horn (Tenor), Angus Smith (Tenor),
Sarah Pendlebury (Soprano), Tom Phillips (Tenor), Simon Grant (Bass),
Julian Podger (Tenor), Stephen Charlesworth (Bass)
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1619; Germany
Language: German

133. Musae Sioniae, Book 8: Der Herr sei mit euch by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1612; Germany
Language: German

134. So schreibt der heilig Propheten Jesajas by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: Germany
Language: German

135. Musae Sioniae, Book 5: Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her by Michael Praetorius

Performer: Simon Grant (Bass), Donald Greig (Baritone)
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Roskilde Cathedral Boys' Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1607; Germany
Language: German

136. So schreibt der heilige Lukas by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: Germany
Language: German

137. Quem pastores by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Roskilde Cathedral Boys' Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: Germany
Language: Latin

138. Vater unser im Himmelreich by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1612; Germany
Language: German

139. Polyhymnia caduceatrix et panegyrica: Jesaja dem Propheten das geschah by Michael Praetorius

Performer: Susan Hemington Jones (Soprano), Angus Smith (Tenor), Constanze Backes (Soprano),
Sarah Pendlebury (Soprano), Donald Greig (Baritone), Mark Le Brocq (Tenor),
Simon Grant (Bass), Tessa Bonner (Soprano)
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1619; Germany
Language: German

140. Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1619; Germany
Language: German

141. Musae Sioniae, Book 6: Uns ist ein Kindlein heut geborn by Michael Praetorius

Performer: Sarah Pendlebury (Soprano), Hannelore Devaere (Harp)
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1609; Germany
Language: German

142. Missodia Sionia: Der Herr segne dich und behüte dich by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1611; Germany
Language: German

143. Musae Sioniae, Book 6: Puer nobis nascitur by Michael Praetorius

Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Roskilde Cathedral Boys' Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1609; Germany
Language: Latin

144. Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren by Michael Praetorius

Performer: Timothy Roberts (Organ)
Period: Renaissance

145. In dulci jubilo by Michael Praetorius

Performer: Susan Hemington Jones (Soprano), Mark Le Brocq (Tenor), Tessa Bonner (Soprano)
Conductor: Paul McCreesh
Orchestra/Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Roskilde Cathedral Boys' Choir
Period: Renaissance
Written: by 1619; Germany
Language: Latin

146. Zaïs: Overture by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 5 Minutes 47 Secs.

147. Castor et Pollux: Scène funèbre by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1737; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.

148. Les fêtes d'Hébé: Air "Revenez tendre amant" by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1739; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 1 Minutes 53 Secs.

149. Dardanus: Tambourins I and II by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1739/1744; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 1 Minutes 51 Secs.

150. Le temple de la gloire: Air tendre pour les Muses by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1745; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 4 Minutes 25 Secs.

151. Les Boréades: Contredanse en rondeau by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1764; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 3 Minutes 6 Secs.

152. La naissance d'Osiris: Air gracieux by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1754; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 2 Minutes 19 Secs.

153. Platée: Orage by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1745; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 2 Minutes 32 Secs.

154. Les Boréades: Prélude by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1764; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 1 Minutes 19 Secs.

155. Nouvelles suites de pièces de clavecin: no 11, La poule by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1729-1730; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 4 Minutes 31 Secs.

156. Les fêtes d'Hébé: Musette en Rondeau by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1739; Paris, France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 3 Minutes 22 Secs.

157. Hippolyte et Aricie: Ritournelle by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1733; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 2 Minutes 9 Secs.

158. Les Indes galantes: Rondeau, Danse des sauvages by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1735/1761; France

159. Les Boréades: Entrée des Polymnie by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1764; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 6 Minutes 5 Secs.

160. Les Indes galantes: Chaconne by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1735/1761; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 6 Minutes 17 Secs.

161. Les Boréades: Gavotte pour les heures et les zéphirs by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: 1764; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 2 Minutes 44 Secs.

162. Naïs: Rigaudons I and II by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1749; France
Date of Recording: 06/2003
Venue: Live Salle Molière, Théâtre de Poissy, France
Length: 2 Minutes 22 Secs.

163. Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77 by Johannes Brahms

Performer: Anne-Sophie Mutter (Violin)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1878; Austria
Date of Recording: 09/1981
Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 40 Minutes 19 Secs.

164. Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 "Double" by Johannes Brahms

Performer: Anne-Sophie Mutter (Violin), Antonio Meneses (Cello)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Austria
Date of Recording: 02/1983
Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 34 Minutes 45 Secs.

165. Idomeneo, K 366: Padre, germani, addio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1781; Munich, Germany
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 7 Minutes 23 Secs.
Language: Italian

166. Don Giovanni, K 527: Crudele?...Non mi dir, bell' idol mio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Classical
Written: 1787; Prague, Czech Republ
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 6 Minutes 37 Secs.
Language: Italian

167. Benvenuto Cellini: Entre l'amour et le devoir by Hector Berlioz

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1834-1837; France
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 7 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: French

168. La sonnambula: Come per me sereno...Sovra il sen by Vincenzo Bellini

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1831; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 7 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: French

169. Manon: Obéissons quand leur voix appelle "Gavotte" by Jules Massenet

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1883-1884; France
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 6 Minutes 35 Secs.
Language: French

170. Lucia di Lammermoor: Regnava nel silenzio by Gaetano Donizetti

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1835; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 12 Minutes 42 Secs.
Language: Italian

171. Faust: Ah! je ris de me voir si belle "Jewel Song" by Charles Gounod

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1859; France
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 6 Minutes 28 Secs.
Language: French

172. Rusalka, Op. 114/B 203: O moon high up "Song to the moon" by Antonín Dvorák

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Bohemia
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 5 Minutes 7 Secs.
Language: Czech

173. La Bohème: Quando m'en vo' soletta "Musetta's Waltz" by Giacomo Puccini

Performer: Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda
Orchestra/Ensemble: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/2003
Venue: Great Hall, Music Hall, Vienna
Length: 2 Minutes 39 Secs.
Language: Italian

174. Madrigals, Book 7: Con che soavità, labbra odorate by Claudio Monteverdi

Performer: Dane Roberts (Violone), Florian Deuter (Violin), Reinhard Goebel (Violin),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano), Christian Rieger (Harpsichord), Michael Dücker (Theorbo),
Michael Freimuth (Theorbo), Joachim Fiedler (Cello), Victoria Gunn (Viola),
Markus Möllenbeck (Cello)
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1619; Italy
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 4 Minutes 42 Secs.
Language: Italian

175. Lasciatemi morire "Lamento d'Arianna a 1" by Claudio Monteverdi

Performer: Jakob Lindberg (Theorbo), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1623; Italy
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 11 Minutes 8 Secs.
Language: Italian

176. Lamento della Regina d'Inghilterra by Antonio Bertali

Performer: Christian Rieger (Harpsichord), Markus Möllenbeck (Cello), Wolfgang von Kessinger (Viola),
Reinhard Goebel (Viola), Victoria Gunn (Viola), Franz-Joseph Selig (Bass),
Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 15 Minutes 24 Secs.
Language: Italian

177. Balletti e correnti a 5, Op. 16: Il Ballo del Gran Duca "Corrente Nona" by Giovanni Legrenzi

Performer: Christian Rieger (Harpsichord), Michael Dücker (Theorbo), Markus Möllenbeck (Cello),
Wolfgang von Kessinger (Viola), Victoria Gunn (Viola), Reinhard Goebel (Violin),
Florian Deuter (Violin)
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 3 Minutes 19 Secs.

178. Cessate omai cessate, RV 684 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Ulrike Kunze (Violin), Markus Möllenbeck (Cello), Dane Roberts (Violone),
Christian Rieger (Harpsichord), Wolfgang von Kessinger (Viola), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano),
Florian Deuter (Violin), Laura Johnson (Violin), Andrea Keller (Violin),
Sebastian Griewisch (Violin), Volker Möller (Violin), Victoria Gunn (Viola),
Gerhard Peters (Violin), Joachim Fiedler (Cello)
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 10 Minutes 52 Secs.
Language: Italian

179. Incassum, Lesbia, rogas, Z 383 "Queen's Epicedium" by Henry Purcell

Performer: Markus Möllenbeck (Cello), Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano), Christian Rieger (Positive)
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1695; England
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 7 Minutes 27 Secs.
Language: Latin

180. O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z 406 by Henry Purcell

Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (Mezzo Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (Theorbo)
Conductor: Reinhard Goebel
Orchestra/Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Cologne
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1687; England
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 4 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: English

181. Chaconne by Alessandro Piccinini

Performer: Jakob Lindberg (Theorbo)
Period: Baroque
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 1997
Venue: German Radio Transmitting Hall, Cologne
Length: 1 Minutes 52 Secs.

182. Concertos (4) for Violin, Op. 8 no 1-4 "Four seasons" by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Simon Standage (Violin)
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy

183. Concerto for Violin in E major, Op. 8 no 1/RV 269 "Primavera" by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Simon Standage (Violin)
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1725; Venice, Italy

184. Concerto for Violin in G minor, Op. 8 no 2/RV 315 "L'estate" by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Simon Standage (Violin)
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy

185. Concerto for Violin in F major, Op. 8 no 3/RV 293 "L'autunno" by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Simon Standage (Violin)
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy

186. Concerto for Violin in F minor, Op. 8 no 4/RV 297 "L'inverno" by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Simon Standage (Violin)
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
Period: Baroque
Written: 1725; Venice, Italy

187. Concerto for Oboe and Violin in B flat major, RV 548 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Simon Standage (Violin), David Reichenberg (Oboe)
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy

188. Concerto for 2 Violins in G major, RV 516 by Antonio Vivaldi

Performer: Simon Standage (Violin), Elizabeth Wilcock (Violin)
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock
Orchestra/Ensemble: English Concert
Period: Baroque
Written: Venice, Italy

189. Nocturnes (3) for Piano, B 54/Op. 9 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1830-1831; Poland

190. Nocturnes (3) for Piano, Op. 15 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1830-1833

191. Nocturnes (2) for Piano, Op. 27 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1835; Paris, France

192. Nocturnes (2) for Piano, B 106/Op. 32 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1836-1837; Paris, France

193. Nocturnes (2) for Piano, Op. 37 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1838-1849; Paris, France

194. Nocturnes (2) for Piano, B 142/Op. 48 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1841; Paris, France

195. Nocturnes (2) for Piano, B 152/Op. 55 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1843; Paris, France

196. Nocturnes (2) for Piano, B 161/Op. 62 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1846; Paris, France

197. Nocturne for Piano in E minor, B 19/Op. 72 no 1 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1827; Poland

198. Nocturne for Piano in C sharp minor, B 49 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1830

199. Nocturne for Piano in C minor, B 108 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maria-Joao Pires (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837; Paris, France

200. Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 20/L 375 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1738
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 3 Minutes 31 Secs.

201. Sonata for Harpsichord in D minor, K 9/L 413 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1738
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 4 Minutes 14 Secs.

202. Sonata for Harpsichord in D major, K 119/L 415 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 5 Minutes 14 Secs.

203. Sonata for Harpsichord in D minor, K 1/L 366 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1738
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.

204. Sonata for Harpsichord in B minor, K 87/L 33 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 6 Minutes 21 Secs.

205. Sonata for Harpsichord in E minor, K 98/L 325 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 3 Minutes 18 Secs.

206. Sonata for Harpsichord in G major, K 13/L 486 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1738
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 4 Minutes 24 Secs.

207. Sonata for Harpsichord in G minor, K 8/L 488 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: by 1738
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 5 Minutes 55 Secs.

208. Sonata for Harpsichord in G minor, K 450/L 338 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 3 Minutes 32 Secs.

209. Sonata for Harpsichord in C major, K 159/L 104 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 2 Minutes 31 Secs.

210. Sonata for Harpsichord in C major, K 487/L 205 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 3 Minutes 52 Secs.

211. Sonata for Harpsichord in B flat major, K 529/L 327 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 2 Minutes 30 Secs.

212. Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 380/L 23 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 4 Minutes 59 Secs.

213. Sonata for Harpsichord in D minor, K 11/L 352 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 2 Minutes 53 Secs.

214. Sonata for Harpsichord in E major, K 135/L 224 by Domenico Scarlatti

Performer: Ivo Pogorelich (Piano)
Period: Baroque
Written: 18th Century
Date of Recording: 09/1991
Venue: Beethovensaal, Hanover
Length: 4 Minutes 16 Secs.

215. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 10 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1829-1833; Poland

216. Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25 by Frédéric Chopin

Performer: Maurizio Pollini (Piano)
Period: Romantic
Written: 1832-1836; Paris, France

217. Zar und Zimmermann: O sancta justitia! by Albert Lortzing

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 6 Minutes 32 Secs.
Language: German

218. Zar und Zimmermann: Den Hohen Herrscher...Heil sei dem Tag by Albert Lortzing

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus, Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 9 Minutes 37 Secs.
Language: German

219. Zar und Zimmermann: Sonst spielt ich mit Szepter by Albert Lortzing

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 5 Minutes 18 Secs.
Language: German

220. Der Wildschütz: Fünftausend Taler by Albert Lortzing

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1842; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 5 Minutes 17 Secs.
Language: German

221. Der Wildschütz: Lass Er doch hören...Bei diesem schliemmen Fall by Albert Lortzing

Performer: Christiane Oelze (Soprano), Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1842; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 8 Minutes 6 Secs.
Language: German

222. Der Wildschütz: Wie freundlich strahlt die holde Morgensonne by Albert Lortzing

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1842; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 4 Minutes 49 Secs.
Language: German

223. Tannhäuser: Gar viel und schön by Richard Wagner

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus, Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845/1861; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 6 Minutes 59 Secs.
Language: German

224. Tannhäuser: O, du mein holder Abendstern by Richard Wagner

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1845/1861; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 5 Minutes 29 Secs.
Language: German

225. Die schweigsame Frau, Op. 80: Wie schön ist doch die Musik by Richard Strauss

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1933-1934; Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 4 Minutes 2 Secs.
Language: German

226. Euryanthe, J 291/Op. 81: Wo berg'ich mich?...Und er soll by Carl Maria von Weber

Performer: Thomas Quasthoff (Bass Baritone)
Conductor: Christian Thielemann
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1822-1823; Dresden, Germany
Date of Recording: 09/2001
Venue: Great Hall, Philharmonie, Berlin
Length: 9 Minutes 9 Secs.
Language: German

227. Mass in B minor, BWV 232 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Baritone), Kieth Engen (Bass), Maria Stader (Soprano),
Hertha Töpper (Alto)
Conductor: Karl Richter
Orchestra/Ensemble: Munich Bach Orchestra
Period: Baroque
Written: 1747-49; Leipzig, Germany
Date of Recording: 1961
Venue: Munich, Germany
Language: Latin

228. Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B 191 by Antonín Dvorák

Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1894-1895; USA
Date of Recording: 09/1968
Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 41 Minutes 21 Secs.

229. Variations for Cello and Orchestra on a Rococo theme, Op. 33 by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
Orchestra/Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1876; Russia
Date of Recording: 09/1968
Venue: Jesus Christus Kirche, Berlin
Length: 18 Minutes 53 Secs.

230. Songs of travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1901-1904; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 3 Minutes 14 Secs.
Language: English

231. Sea fever by John Ireland

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1913; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 2 Minutes 20 Secs.
Language: English

232. The vagabond by John Ireland

Performer: Malcolm Martineau (Piano), Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
Period: 20th Century
Written: England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 1 Minutes 57 Secs.
Language: English

233. Bells of San Marie by John Ireland

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1919; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 2 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: English

234. Let us garlands bring, Op. 18 by Gerald Finzi

Performer: Malcolm Martineau (Piano), Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
Period: 20th Century
Written: England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 3 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: English

235. Songs (6) from A Shropshire Lad by George Butterworth

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1911; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 2 Minutes 40 Secs.
Language: English

236. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: Bredon Hill by George Butterworth

Performer: Malcolm Martineau (Piano), Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 4 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: English

237. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: Oh fair enough are sky and plain by George Butterworth

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 3 Minutes 17 Secs.
Language: English

238. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: When the lad for longing sighs by George Butterworth

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 1 Minutes 44 Secs.
Language: English

239. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: On the idle hill of summer by George Butterworth

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 3 Minutes 8 Secs.
Language: English

240. Bredon Hill and Other Songs: With rue my heart is laden by George Butterworth

Performer: Bryn Terfel (Bass Baritone), Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1912; England
Date of Recording: 02/1995
Venue: Henry Wood Hall, London, England
Length: 1 Minutes 54 Secs.
Language: English

241. La Gioconda: Cielo e mar by Amilcare Ponchielli

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Written: 1876
Length: 5 Minutes 14 Secs.

242. Adriana Lecouvreur: La dolcissima effigie by Francesco Cilèa

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 9 Secs.

243. Il giuramento: Bella adorata incognita by Saverio Mercadante

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837; Italy
Length: 4 Minutes 12 Secs.

244. Mefistofele: Dai campi, dai prati by Arrigo Boito

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868; Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 33 Secs.

245. Maristella: Io conosco un giardino by Giuseppe Pietri

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1934; Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 1 Secs.

246. Fosca: Intenditi con Dio..Ah, se tu sei fra gli angeli by Antonio Carlos Gomes

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873/1878; Milan, Italy
Length: 5 Minutes 1 Secs.

247. Simon Boccanegra: O inferno! Amelia qui!...Sento avvampar... by Giuseppe Verdi

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1857; Italy
Length: 5 Minutes 22 Secs.

248. Poliuto: Sfolgoro divino raggio by Gaetano Donizetti

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor), Gianluca Alfano (Baritone)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1838; Italy
Length: 8 Minutes 24 Secs.

249. Il giuramento: Compita è omai..Fu celeste quel contento by Saverio Mercadante

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1837; Italy
Length: 3 Minutes 40 Secs.

250. Adriana Lecouvreur: L'anima ho stanca by Francesco Cilèa

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; Italy
Length: 1 Minutes 48 Secs.

251. Il figliuol prodigo: Il padre mio...Tenda natal by Amilcare Ponchielli

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Length: 4 Minutes 40 Secs.

252. Mefistofele: Giunto sul passo estremo by Arrigo Boito

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1868; Italy
Length: 2 Minutes 37 Secs.

253. Luisa Miller: Quando le sere al placido by Giuseppe Verdi

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1849; Italy
Length: 5 Minutes 35 Secs.

254. Luisa Miller: L'ara o l'avello apprestami by Giuseppe Verdi

Performer: Rolando Villazón (Tenor), Gianluca Alfano (Baritone)
Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Orchestra/Ensemble: Verdi Chorus Milan, Verdi Grand Symphonic Orchestra Milan
Period: Romantic
Written: 1849; Italy
Length: 3 Minutes 17 Secs.

255. Trio Sonata for Organ no 1 in E flat major, BWV 525 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Helmut Walcha (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1727; Leipzig, Germany
Venue: St. Laurens Church, Alkmaar, Netherlands

256. Partite sopra Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig, BWV 768 by Johann Sebastian Bach

Performer: Helmut Walcha (Organ)
Period: Baroque
Written: circa 1700; Lüneburg, Germany
Venue: St. Laurens Church, Alkmaar, Netherlands

257. Chorale Preludes (6) BWV 645-650 "Schübler": no 1, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 645 by Johann Sebastian Bach