Karajan 1970s – Complete DG Recordings – Box Set 82CDs

Label : DG
Format : ALAC
Cover : Yes

The equally majestic follow-up to one of the most successful box sets in recent memory: After KARAJAN 1960s here comes KARAJAN 1970s. Between 1970 and 1979, Herbert von Karajan recorded the incredible amount of 82 CDs worth of orchestral and choral music for DG This was the period that saw Karajan delve deeply into important repertoire that he never really tackled before or after – from Vivaldi to Mahler, to Berg, Schoenberg and Webern as well as Orff. Not to forget Christmas Concertos, National Anthems, and Prussian Marches.

The box contains the core of Karajan’s repertoire as an orchestral conductor:

- Full symphony cycles of Beethoven, Brahms and Tchaikovsky, as well as Mendelssohn and Schumann
- The famed Mozart and Beethoven recordings that helped then teen wunderkind Anne-Sophie Mutter to become a worldwide phenomenon
- Bruckner Symphonies 4-9 and the Te Deum, recordings that are still regarded as the pinnacle of Bruckner interpretation
- Individual master recordings of 20th-century classics by Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Orff (the world-premiere recording of De temporum fine comoedia)
- Mahler Symphonies 4-6 & 9, as well as Das Lied von der Erde, Ruckert-Lieder & Kindertotenlieder featuring Christa Ludwig
- Karajan’s major Bach interpretations – among them the Brandenburg Concertos, the Mass in B minor and the St. Matthew Passion
- Fascinating forays into “rarer” repertoire, such as Baroque Christmas concertos, a collection of European national anthems as well as Prussian and Austrian marches for wind orchestra
- Delightful recordings of “light repertoire” by Borodin, Offenbach, Ponchielli, Weber...
- Major choral works from Mozart’s Requiem, to Brahms’ German Requiem and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem...

It’s all there, 82 CDs of the original LPs, in their original cover art, most of them in their original couplings, arranged in four snug compartments.

Complete tracklist : Karajan 1970s – Complete DG Recordings