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

Beethoven Masterworks - CD - Various Box Limited Edition