An orchestra, 11 conductors, 13 composers, 95 symphonies

In recent years, the pit flood has taken almost tsunami proportions even in classical music CD market, with old recordings to make the established record companies probably a lucrative source again some money. The course 170ste anniversary of the founding of the Vienna Philharmonic, one of the indisputable best orchestras in the world, is a fitting occasion for this 50-CD Symphony Edition. The photographs included in this box under the conductors Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, John Eliot Gardiner, Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Lorin Maazel and James Levine are from the years 1971 to 1999 while listening to all the CDs I once again found confirmation that newer digital recordings do not have sound forcibly better than older analog recordings, as here from the 70s or early 80s. In general, the sound quality is here at a very high level. The law appealing exterior of the box may not be quite appropriate, the something unadorned geratenen cardboard sleeves in which put the individual CDs, but is irrelevant for me.

Such CD box of the Vienna Philharmonic I wished for quite some time and am now blessed with it even at Christmas.

Subsequently even the exact program of the CD box:

Beethoven:
Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Carlos Kleiber
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Carlos Kleiber
Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
Karl Böhm
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93
Karl Böhm
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Gwyneth Jones (soprano), Hanna Schwarz (alto), René Kollo (tenor) & Kurt Moll (bass)
with Vienna State Opera Chorus, Leonard Bernstein

Brahms:
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
Leonard Bernstein
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Carlo Maria Giulini
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Carlos Kleiber

Bruckner:
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 4 in E flat Major 'Romantic'
Version 1878/1880
Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Edition: Leopold Nowak
Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 7 in E Major
Herbert von Karajan
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Herbert von Karajan
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
Edition: Leopold Nowak
Carlo Maria Giulini

Dvorak:
Symphony No. 6 in D major, Op. 60
Myung Whun Chung
Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Myung Whun Chung
String Quartet No. 8 in E major, Op. 80
Lorin Maazel
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'
Lorin Maazel

Haydn:
Symphony No. 88 in G major
Karl Böhm
Symphony No. 89 in F Major
Karl Böhm
Symphony No. 90 in C Major
Karl Böhm
Symphony No. 91 in E flat major
Karl Böhm
Symphony No. 92 in G major 'Oxford'
Karl Böhm

Mahler:
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection'
Cheryl Studer (soprano) & Waltraud Meier (mezzo)
with Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Jessye Norman (soprano)
with Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Boys' Choir, Claudio Abbado
Symphony No. 4 in G major
Frederica von Stade (mezzo)
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
Pierre Boulez
Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of the Thousand'
Barbara Hendricks, Margaret Price, Judith Blegen, Gerti Zeumer, Helmut Wittek, Agnes Baltsa, Christa Ludwig, Trudeliese Schmidt, Kenneth Riegel, Hermann Prey, José van Dam
with Vienna State Opera Chorus & Vienna Choral Society, the Vienna Boys Choir, Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 9 in D major
Claudio Abbado

Mendelssohn:
Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. 90 'Italian'
Revised Version
John Eliot Gardiner
Symphony No. 5 in D major, Op. 107 'Reformation'
John Eliot Gardiner

Mozart:
Symphonies (Complete)
James Levine

Schubert:
Symphony No. 3 in D major, D200
Carlos Kleiber
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Carlos Kleiber
Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great'
John Eliot Gardiner
Song of the Spirits over the Waters, D714
2nd version for 8-part male chorus and string orchestra
with Male Voices of the Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, D485
Karl Böhm

Schumann:
Symphonies Nos. 1-4 (Complete)
Leonard Bernstein

Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 54
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 70
Leonard Bernstein

Sibelius:
Symphony No. 1 in E minor, Op. 39
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
Leonard Bernstein
Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 105
Leonard Bernstein

Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Herbert von Karajan
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Herbert von Karajan
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
Herbert von Karajan