CLAUDIO ABBADO - THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS ON DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON [257CD+8DVD]

Format: 257CD+8DVD
Catalogue No.: 4862510
Barcode: 0028948625109
Release Date: 17 Feb 2023
Genre: Classical

'• 257 CDs, 8 DVDs, 2 softcover tracklist book and 1 hardcover-book, original jackets
• The legacy of a legend: Everything Abbado ever recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca and Philips
• Strictly Limited, Numbered Edition
• Beautiful ‘library-style’ box presentation
• Bookshelf-like inner box with albums easily accessible from two sides
• 112pp hardcover coffee table book (210x 297mm) with many specially contributed essays written exclusively for this edition:
• A new essay journeying through Abbado’s career by Wolfgang Stähr
• Reminiscences by colleagues Alfred Brendel, Yuja Wang, Evegeny Kissin, and Albrecht Mayer;
• Reminiscences by Abbado’s longtime producers Christopher Alder and Sid McLauchlan.
• Also included are essays by James Jolly, Julia Spinola, Jon Tolansky and Clemens Hellsberg.
• Lavishly illustared with photos and with facsimiles of recording protocols from some of his most famous recordings
• Two tracklisting booklets (268 pages & 232 pages) with additional essays:
• “There’s always something new to discover in Beethoven’s symphonies” Claudio Abbado in conversation with Wolfgang Schreiber
• “Abbado and Bruckner” Nigel Simeone
• “Looking out into infinity” Oreste Bossini
• “Abbado and Mahler” Nigel Simeone
• “Abbado and Schubert’s Ninth” Julia Spinola
• The eight DVDs include the first DVD release of Janáček‘s “From the House of the Dead” with the Wiener Philharmoniker