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This 6CD box set offers a single track from each of the 51 principal artists featured there, plus 60 more from artists who have contributed to Deutsche Grammophon’s 111-year ­history, right up to the present day. The roster runs from Caruso and Richard Strauss at the beginnings of recording history to recent arrivals Alice Sara Ott and Yuja Wang.
Includes 224 page book featuring 200 pictures and fascinating documents, including an exhaustive artistic history, DG, as seen by its most prestigious artists, interesting documentation on DG and the recording industry, an in sight into the impact of DG on technology, the History of DG graphic communication, and DG today and DG in the Future.

Tracklisting:

CD 1
Johannes Brahms
- Hungarian Dance No.5 in G minor (Orchestrated by Martin Schmeling)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Johann Sebastian Bach
- The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 9. a 4 alla Duodecima
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Ludwig van Beethoven
- String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131: 2. Allegro molto vivace

Amadeus Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Concerto No.21 in C, K.467: 2. Andante
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg, Géza Anda
Frédéric Chopin
- 24 Préludes, Op.28: 24. in D minor

Martha Argerich
Maurice Ravel
- Pavane pour une infante défunte
Myron Bloom, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Le nozze di Figaro, K.492, Act 2: "Voi che sapete"

Cecilia Bartoli, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Frédéric Chopin
- 24 Préludes, Op.28: 3. in G major
Rafal Blechacz
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067: 7. Badinerie

Jean Soldan, Lucerne Festival Strings, Rudolf Baumgartner
Gabriel Fauré
- Requiem, Op.48: 4. Pie Jesu
Kathleen Battle, Timothy Farrell, Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
Claude Debussy
- Préludes - Book 1: 7. Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
Georges Bizet
- Carmen, Act 1: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise)
Teresa Berganza, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, The Ambrosian Singers, John McCarthy
Leonard Bernstein
- Overture Candide

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Requiem in D minor, K.626 (compl. By Franz Xaver Süssmayer): 3. Sequentia: Lacrimosa
Hans Haselböck, Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Norbert Balatsch
Richard Strauss
- Sechs Lieder, Op.17: 2. Ständchen

Measha Brueggergosman, Justus Zeyen
Igor Stravinsky
- Le Sacre du Printemps: 6. Danse sacrale: l'élue
The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Manuel de Falla
- El amor brujo: Canción del amor dolido

Grace Bumbry, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lorin Maazel
Giacomo Meyerbeer
- L'Africaine, Act 4: O Paradiso (sung in Italian)
Enrico Caruso, Orchestra
Antonio Vivaldi
- Concerto for Violin, Strings and Harpsichord in G minor, R.325: 2. Largo

Giuliano Carmignola, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Giacomo Puccini
- Tosca, Act 3: "E lucevan le stelle"
José Carreras, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Total Playing Time 1:08:24
CD 2

Georges Bizet
- Carmen Suite (excerpts from suites nos. 1 & 2): Les toréadors
Orchestre de l'Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung
Morton Gould
- Boogie Woogie Etude
Shura Cherkassky
Giuseppe Verdi
- Il Trovatore, Act 3: "Di quella pira"
Rosalind Plowright, Plácido Domingo, Walter Gullino, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Maria Giulini, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Norbert Balatsch
Anonymous
- Evening Bells (arr. Serge Jaroff)

Andre Bielecki, Don Kosaken Chor, Serge Jaroff
Alberto Ginastera
- Estancia, Danzas del Ballet: 2. Danza del trigo
Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel
Béla Bartók
- String Quartet No.4, Sz. 91: 4. Allegretto pizzicato

Emerson String Quartet
Franz Schubert
- Winterreise, D.911: 5. Der Lindenbaum
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Suite for Cello Solo No.1 in G, BWV 1007: 1. Prélude

Pierre Fournier
Giuseppe Verdi
- Messa da Requiem: 4. Sanctus
RIAS Symphony Orchestra Berlin, Ferenc Fricsay, RIAS Kammerchor, Chor der St. Hedwig's-Kathedrale, Berlin
Franz Joseph Haydn
- Symphony in G, H.I No.88: 4. Finale (Allegro con spirito)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Gaetano Donizetti
- Lucrezia Borgia,Act 2: Il segreto per esser felici
Elina Garanca, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado, Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Paolo Vero
Claudio Monteverdi
- Vespro della Beata Vergine: Domine ad adiuvandum a 6

Nigel Robson, English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Piano Sonata No.26 in E flat, Op.81a -"Les adieux": 3. Das Wiedersehen (Vivacissimamente)
Emil Gilels
Modest Mussorgsky
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Orchestrated by Maurice Ravel): The Old Castle

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini
Johann Sebastian Bach
- Das Wohltemperierte Klavier, Book 1: Prelude in C major BWV 846
Hélène Grimaud
Johann Pachelbel
- Canon and Gigue in D major: 1. Canon

Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel, Henk Bouman
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Piano Sonata No.16 in B flat, K.570: 3. Allegretto
Friedrich Gulda
- String Quartet No.15 in D minor, K.421: 3. Minuetto (Allegretto)
Hagen Quartett

Johann Sebastian Bach
- Violin Concerto No.2 in E, BWV 1042: 3. Allegro assai
Hilary Hahn, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane
Total Playing Time 1:03:05
CD 3
Felix Mendelssohn

- Six Songs, Op.34: 2. Auf den Flügeln des Gesanges
Daniel Hope, Sebastian Knauer
Alexander Scriabin
- 3 Pieces for piano, Op.2: 1. Etude in C sharp minor
Vladimir Horowitz
George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin / DuBose Heyward / Dorothy Heyward

- Porgy and Bess (Transcription for Violin and Piano by Jascha Heifetz): It Ain't Necessarily So
Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Bay
Franz Schubert
- Winterreise, D.911: 24. Der Leiermann
Hans Hotter, Michael Raucheisen
Richard Strauss

- Vier letzte Lieder: 1. Frühling
Gundula Janowitz, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Edvard Grieg
- Peer Gynt, Op.23, Incidental Music: No.13. Morning mood
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Carl Orff

- Carmina Burana: "O Fortuna"
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Eugen Jochum, Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Walter Hagen-Groll
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Overture "Coriolan", Op.62
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
- Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59 -"Für Elise": Poco moto

Wilhelm Kempff
George Frideric Handel
- Joshua: O Had I Jubal's Lyre
Magdalena Kozená, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Antonín Dvorák
- Symphony No.8 in G, Op.88: 3. Allegretto grazioso - Molto vivace

Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelik
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Sonata for Violin and Piano No.8 in G, Op.30 No.3: 3. Allegro vivace
Gidon Kremer, Martha Argerich
- Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67: 1. Allegro con brio
Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlos Kleiber

Robert Schumann
- Kinderszenen, Op.15: 7. Träumerei
Lang Lang
Felix Mendelssohn
- String Quartet No.1 in E flat, Op.12: 2. Canzonetta: Allegretto
LaSalle Quartet
Leonard Bernstein
- Candide, Act I: I Am Easily Assimilated (Old Lady's Tango)
Christa Ludwig, London Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, London Symphony Chorus, Simon Joly
Total Playing Time 1:05:51
CD 4

Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a: Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
Berliner Philharmoniker, Ferdinand Leitner
Sergei Prokofiev
- Symphony No.1 in D, Op.25 "Classical Symphony": 4. Finale (Vivace)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine

Camille Saint-Saëns
- Le Carnaval des Animaux: Le cygne (Arranged Paul Vidal)
Mischa Maisky, Orchestre de Paris, Semyon Bychkov
Felix Mendelssohn
- Symphony No.5 in D minor, Op.107 - "Reformation": 2. Allegro vivace
Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel

Johannes Brahms
- Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op.102: 2. Andante
Anne-Sophie Mutter, António Meneses, Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
Herbert Howells
- A spotless Rose
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh

Claude Debussy
- String Quartet in G minor, Op.10: 2. Scherzo (Assez vif et bien rythmé)
Melos Quartet
Hector Be

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