Karajan – Official Remastered Edition
Label:Warner Classics – 0190295955199Series:Karajan Official Remastered EditionFormat:101 x CD, Remastered, Repress, Stereo, Mono
Box Set, Compilation, Repress
Country:UK & EuropeReleased:Sep 1, 2016Genre:ClassicalStyle:Classical, Romantic, Oratorio, Baroque, Choral, Impressionist, Modern
Tracklist
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Credits
Notes
On each box set:
Newly remastered from the original master tapes.
Digital remastering (P) 2014 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
This compilation (P) & (C) 2014 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd.
Made in the EU.
On box:
This compilation (P) & (C) 2016 Parlophone Records Limited.
Made in the EU.
Each set is presented in clamshell cardboard box including the CDs in individual wallets and a 20-page booklet each.
All sets are housed in a big cardboard retangolar box.
All 13 box sets have been previously released in 2014 and later included in the 2016 101-CD box set. This release is a repress of the 2016 release, manufactured by Optimal Media GmbH in 11/12/2017, containing boxes pressed between 2014 and 2017 (manufactured by Optimal Media GmbH with matrixes AE##### (2014) and AH##### (2017))
Below is the list of the exact content of the box. Consult each link for detailed tracklist/credits/info.
Box Set 1: Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra / Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms - Choral Music (1947-1958)
Box Set 2: Herbert von Karajan, Dennis Brain, Walter Gieseking, Dinu Lipatti, Hans Richter-Haaser - Karajan And His Soloists I (1948-1958)
Box Set 3: Herbert von Karajan, Wiener Philharmoniker / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss - Mozart - Beethoven - Schubert - Brahms - R. Strauss - Opera Arias (1946-1949)
Box Set 4: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra - Orchestral Spectaculars From Handel To Bartók 1949-1960
Box Set 5: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra / Modest Mussorgsky, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Alexander Borodin, Mily Balakirev, Igor Stravinsky - Russian Music (1949-1960)
Box Set 6: Herbert von Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra / Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphonies 1-9 · Overtures (1951-1955)
Box Set 7: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss Jr., Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss - Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, J. Strauss, Wagner, R. Strauss (1951-1960)
Box Set 8: Herbert von Karajan - Gidon Kremer, Anne-Sophie Mutter, David Oistrach, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexis Weissenberg - Karajan And His Soloists II (1969-1984)
Box Set 9: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, Orchestre De Paris / Hector Berlioz, César Franck, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Antonín Dvořák, Béla Bartók - Berlioz, Franck, Debussy, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Bartók (1970-1981)
Box Set 10: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker / Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert - Symphonies (1970-1981)
Box Set 11: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker / Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Franz Schmidt - Brahms, Bruckner, Wagner, R. Strauss, Schmidt (1970-1981)
Box Set 12: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker / Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms - Choral Music (1972-1976)
Box Set 13: Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker / Jean Sibelius - Sibelius (1976-1981)
Editor's note:
Info from the official site state that all recordings was fully remastered in 24-bit/96kHz from the original tapes at Abbey Road Studios by Simon Gibson, Ian Jones, Andy Walter and Allan Ramsay. None of these engineers nor Abbey Road Studios have been credited on the single box sets / big box.