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Mozart 225 - The New Complete Edition presented by Decca Classics and Deutsche Grammophon in partnership with the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation The most authoritative, complete and scholarly box set ever devoted to the work of a single composer. This individually-numbered limited edition box set presents Mozart’s entire completed works , plus all recorded 100 fragments, completions and complete Handel and Bach arrangements 200 CDs featuring over 240 hours of music from 600 world-class artists with virtually every significant Mozart interpreter of the past 50 years represented. 30 CDs of alternative interpretations of key works providing a choice between traditional and period instruments5 hours of new recordings including several world premieres including a recently discovered song (K477a) written with Antonio Salieri 2 hours new recordings on Mozart’s own instruments including his recently returned “dalla Costa” violin The set also includes: 2 fully-illustrated hardback books: a brand-new biography by leading Mozart scholars Cliff Eisen, plus 120000 words of work-by-work commentary from 30 renowned experts.5 frameable prints, including the last authenticated portrait, score facsimiles and a letter to Mozart’s father.“K Book” exclusive to this Edition, presenting the long-awaited numbering of the new Köchel catalogue and access to online scores of the Neue Mozart-AusgabeUnique code to ground-breaking Libretto App with full sung texts and parallel translations W A Mozart - The New Complete EditionSummary of ContentsCD 1-49 Chamber Works:CD1-10 Solo Nannerl Notenbuch (excerpts), The London Sketchbook, Variations, Piano Sonatas, Minuets, Rondos, Fantasias, Adagios, Modulating Preludes, Prelude & Fugue, Suite, Works for mechanical organ and glass harmonica, Alternative versions Vladimir Ashkenazy · Florian Birsak · Alfred Brendel · Ingrid Haebler · Tamar Halperin · Bruno Hoffmann · Alicia de Larrocha · Francesco Piemontesi · Maria João Pires · Siegbert Rampe · András Schiff · Erik Smith · Thomas Trotter · Mitsuko UchidaCD11-19 Duets Sonatas and Variations for Piano & Violin, Sonatas and Variations for Keyboard 4 hands and 2 Pianos, Duo for Bassoon & Cello, Violin & Viola Duos, Horn Duos Martha Argerich/Stephen Kovacevich · Vladimir Ashkenazy/Malcolm Frager · Daniel Barenboim/ Itzhak Perlman · Ronald Brautigam/Isabelle van Keulen · Humphrey Burton/Erik Smith · Augustin Dumay/Maria João Pires · Peter Frankl/Tamás Vásáry · Szymon Goldberg/Radu Lupu · Arthur Grumiaux /Walter Klien/Arrigo Pelliccia · Hilary Hahn /Natalie Zhu · Arthur Jussen/Lucas Jussen · Anne-Sophie Mutter /Lambert Orkis · Stephen Orton/Klaus Thunemann · Jan Peeters/Iman Soeteman · Gérard Poulet/Blandine Verlet · Mark Steinberg/Mitsuko Uchida · Henryk Szeryng/Ingrid Haebler/Ludwig Hoffmann CD20-22 TriosPiano Trios, String Trios, Clarinet Trio Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble · Beaux Arts Trio · Grumiaux Trio · Wolfram Christ/Karl Leister/James Levine · Daniel Müller-Schott/Anne-Sophie Mutter/ André Previn · Augustin Dumay/Maria João Pires/Jian WangCD23-30 Quartets Divertimenti K136-K138, String Quartets, Flute Quartets, Oboe Quartet, Piano QuartetsAcademy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble · Beaux Arts Trio/Bruno Giuranna · Emerson String Quartet · Grumiaux Trio/William Bennett · Hagen Quartet · Lindsay String Quartet · Melos Quartet · Orlando Quartet · Quartetto Italiano · Jean Decroos/Heinz Holliger/ Herman Krebbers/Karl Schouten CD31-34 QuintetsString Quintets, Horn Quintet, Piano Quintet, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Adagio & Fugue, Clarinet Quintet, Adagio & Rondo Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble · Boston Symphony Chamber Players/Harold Wright · Gewandhaus Quartet/Hermann Baumann · Grumiaux Trio/Árpád Gérecz/Max Lesueur · Hagen Quartet/Roberto Di Ronza · Lindsay String Quartet/Louise Williams/ Patrick Ireland · Takács Quartet/Joseph Carver · Jean Decroos/Bruno Hoffmann/Heinz Holliger/Aurèle Nicolet/Karl Schouten · Radu Lupu/George Pieterson/Brian Pollard/Hans de Vries/Vicente ZarzoCD35-39 Sextets, Octets etcDivertimenti, SerenadesAcademy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble · Amadeus Winds · Members of the Holliger Wind Ensemble · Members of the Orpheus Chamber OrchestraCD40-49 Supplementary performances: Period instruments, Mozart's instruments, Classic & Historic Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble/Michael Thompson · Amadeus Quartet · Jack Brymer/Patrick Ireland/Stephen Kovacevich · Esterházy Quartet/Wim Ten Have · Griller Quartet/Dennis Brain · Grumiaux Trio/Árpád Gérecz/Max Lesueur · London Wind Soloists · The Music Party/Alan Hacker · Les Solistes des Musiciens du Louvre · Members of the Orchestra of the 18th Century/ Frans Brüggen · Trio Italiano d’Archi · Wiener Oktett · Benjamin Britten/Sviatoslav Richter · Vladimir Ashkenazy · Alfred Brendel · Clifford Curzon · Arthur Grumiaux · Friedrich Gulda · Clara Haskil · Vladimir Horowitz · Wilhelm Kempff · George Malcolm · András Schiff · Yuuko Shiokawa · Grigory Sokolov CD 50-101 Orchestral Works:CD50-61 SymphoniesThe English Concert/Trevor Pinnock · Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood · English Baroque Soloists/ John Eliot Gardiner · Orchestra of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen · Les Musiciens du Louvre/Marc MinkowskiCD62-68 Serenades, Divertimenti, CassationsOrpheus Chamber Orchestra · Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner · Wiener Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky · Staatskapelle Dresden/Edo de Waart · The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood · Orchestra of the 18th Century/Frans Brüggen · Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio DantoneCD69-73 Minuets, Contredanses, German Dances, MarchesWiener Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky · Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner · Orpheus Chamber OrchestraCD74-87 ConcertosAmandine Beyer/Gilles Thomé/Ensemble 415/Chiara Banchini · Letizia Belmondo/Giuliano Carmignola/ Jacques Zoon/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado · Lisa Beznosiuk/Danny Bond/Anthony Halstead/Robert Levin/Simon Standage/Antony Pay/Michel Piguet/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood · Malcolm Bilson/Melvyn Tan/Robert Levin/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner · Roger Montgomery/Viktoria Mullova/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment CD88-101 Supplementary performances: Concerto and Orchestral Alessio Allegrini/Alessandro Carbonare/Maria João Pires/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado · Anne-Sophie Mutter/London Philharmonic Orchestra· Hilary Hahn/ Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen/Paavo Järvi · Nicola Benedetti/Iona Brown/Josef Suk/ /Lucas Jussen/Arthur Jussen/Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Iona Brown/Neville Marriner · Mitsuko Uchida/The Cleveland Orchestra/English Chamber Orchestra/Jeffrey Tate · Daniel Barenboim/Georg Solti/English Chamber Orchestra · András Schiff/Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg/Sándor Végh · Alfred Brendel/Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Charles Mackerras · Maria João Pires/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado · Vladimir Ashkenazy/Philharmonia Orchestra · Emil Gilels/Wiener Philharmoniker/Karl Böhm · London Symphony Orchestra /Peter Maag · Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Eugen Jochum · Concertgebouw Orchestra/George Szell · Wiener Philharmoniker/Leonard Bernstein · David Oistrakh/Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux/Bernard Haitink · Friedrich Gulda/Wiener Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado · Géza Anda/Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg · Berliner Philharmoniker/Karl Böhm · London Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Britten · Clifford Curzon/English Chamber Orchestra/Benjamin BrittenCD 102-152 Theatre:CD102 Apollo et HyacinthusMozarteum-Orchester Salzburg/Leopold HagerCD103-104 La finta sempliceKammerorchester “Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach”/Peter SchreierCD105 Bastien und Bastienne; Der SchauspieldirektorWiener Symphoniker/Uwe Christian Harrer · London Symphony Orchestra/Colin DavisCD106-108 Mitridate, re di PontoLes Talens Lyriques/Christophe RoussetCD109-110 Ascanio in AlbaCD111-112 Il sogno di ScipioneCD113-115 Lucio SillaCD116-118 La finta giardinieraMozarteum-Orchester Salzburg/Leopold HagerCD119-120 Il re pastoreAcademy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville MarrinerCD121 ZaideStaatskapelle Berlin/Bernhard KleeCD122-124 IdomeneoEnglish Baroque Soloists/John Eliot GardinerCD125-126 Die Entführung aus dem SerailAcademy of Ancient Music/Christopher HogwoodCD127 L’oca del Cairo; Lo sposo delusoKammerorchester “Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach”/Peter Schreier; London Symphony Orchestra/Colin DavisCD128-130 Le nozze di FigaroDrottningholm Court Theatre Ensemble/Arnold ÖstmanCD131-133 Don GiovanniMahler Chamber Orchestra/Yannick Nézet-SéguinCD134-136 Così fan tutteChamber Orchestra of Europe/Georg SoltiCD137-138 Die ZauberflöteMahler Chamber Orchestra/Claudio AbbadoCD139-140 La clemenza di TitoScottish Chamber Orchestra/Charles MackerrasCD141 Thamos in Ägypten; Les Petits Riens etcEnglish Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner · Concerto Köln/Anton Steck · Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone · Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher HogwoodCD142-146 Additional Opera Arias, Insertion Arias, Concert Arias Claes H. Ahnsjö · Francisco Araiza · Ildebrando D’Arcangelo · Cecilia Bartoli · Teresa Berganza · Walter Berry · Hans-Peter Blochwitz · Stuart Burrows · Julian Clarkson · Fernando Corena · Renée Fleming · Edita Gruberova · Gunnar Gudbjörnsson · Eirian James · Julie Kaufmann · Krisztina Laki · Eva Lind · Robert Lloyd · Felicity Lott · Charlotte Margiono · Edith Mathis · Sylvia McNair · Peter Mirring · Thomas Moser · René Pape · Luciano Pavarotti · Lucia Popp · John Pritchard · Argeo Quadri · Christine Schäfer · Roberto Scaltriti · Anton Christine Schäfer · Scharinger · András Schiff · Peter Schreier · Rita Streich · Lilian Sukis · Elzbieta Szmytka · Kiri Te Kanawa · Robert Tear · Bryn Terfel · Iris Vermillion · Rolando Villazón · Edith Wiens · Gösta Winbergh; Claudio Abbado · Karl Böhm · Colin Davis · György Fischer · John Eliot Gardiner · Jane Glover · Leopold Hager · Neville Marriner · Charles Mackerras · Gianandrea Noseda · Antonio Pappano · Bernhard Paumgartner · Christophe Rousset · Wolfgang Sawallisch · Jörg-Peter WeigleCD147 Arias with Period instruments Cecilia Bartoli · Barbara Bonney · Ildebrando D’Arcangelo · Mojca Erdmann · Gerald Finley · Rodney Gilfry · Jos van Immerseel · Della Jones · Emma Kirkby · Magdalena Kožená · Anne Sofie von Otter · Patricia Petibon · Anthony Rolfe Johnson · Kristinn Sigmundsson · Andrea Silvestrelli · Rachel Yakar ; John Eliot Gardiner · Daniel Harding · Christopher Hogwood · Andrea Marcon · Arnold Östman · Trevor Pinnock · Simon Rattle CD148 Famous Arias Thomas Allen · Janet Baker · Cecilia Bartoli · Montserrat Caballé · Colin Davis · Plácido Domingo · Renée Fleming · Elı¯na Garancˇa · Sumi Jo · Jonas Kaufmann · Kurt Moll · Anna Netrebko · Luciano Pavarotti · Miah Persson · Margaret Price · Anna Prohaska · Samuel Ramey · Christine Rice · Frederica von Stade · Cheryl Studer · Kiri Te Kanawa · Bryn Terfel; Claudio Abbado · Myung Whun Chung · György Fischer · Nikolaus Harnoncourt · Herbert von Karajan · James Levine · Charles Mackerras · Neville Marriner · Yannick Nézet-Séguin · Georg Solti · Sebastian Weigle CD149 Classic Performances: AriasWalter Berry · Stuart Burrows · Lisa della Casa · Fernando Corena · Suzanne Danco · Anton Dermota · Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau · Mirella Freni · Hilde Gueden · Ernst Haefliger · Gundula Janowitz · Tom Krause · Edith Mathis · Bernhard Paumgartner · Lucia Popp · Hermann Prey · Leontyne Price · Irmgard Seefried · Cesare Siepi · Léopold Simoneau · Rita Streich ·Tatiana Troyanos · Fritz Wunderlich; Karl Böhm · Colin Davis · Ferenc Fricsay · Eugen Jochum · István Kertész · Josef Krips · Erich Leinsdorf · Ferdinand Leitner · Bernhard Paumgartner · John PritchardCD150-152 Classic Performance: Le Nozze Di FigaroWiener Philharmoniker · Erich KleiberCD153-173 Sacred & Private:CD153-154 Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots etc Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart/Neville MarrinerCD155-156 La Betulia liberataMozarteum-Orchester Salzburg/Leopold HagerCD157 Davidde penitente etcRadio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart /Neville MarrinerCD158-169 Church Music – Mass Settings, Litanies, Vespers, Shorter Works, Epistle Sonatas, RequiemGiovanni Antonini/Il Giardino Armonico/Julia Lezhneva · Emma Kirkby/Westminster Cathedral Choir/Academy of Ancient Music & Chorus/Christopher Hogwood · Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner · The Choir of John’s College, Cambridge/Wren Orchestra/George Guest · The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/English Chamber Orchestra/Stephen Cleobury · Rundfunkchor Leipzig/Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig/Herbert Kegel ·Schola Cantorum Of Oxford, George Malcolm, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner ·Wiener Sängerknaben, Chorus Viennensis, Wiener Symphoniker, Uwe Christian Harrer · Netherlands Chamber Choir/Orchestra Of The 18th Century/ Frans Brüggen · Gabrieli Consort and Players/Paul McCreesh · Chorus Musicus Köln/Das neue Orchester/Christoph SperingCD 170 Supplementary Performances: Solemn Vespers; Requiem etcWinchester Cathedral Choir/The Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood; Rachel Harnisch/Swedish Radio Choir/Berliner Philharmoniker/Claudio Abbado; Wiener Kammerorchester /György Fischer ; Arleen Auger/Cecilia Bartoli/Vinson Cole/René Pape/Wiener Staatsopernchor/Wiener Philharmoniker/Georg SoltiCD 171 SongsElly Ameling/Dalton Baldwin/Benni Ludemann · Cecilia Bartoli/Jean-Yves Thibaudet · Kathleen Battle/James Levine · Hans Peter Blochwitz/Rudolf Jansen · Measha Brueggergosman/Justus Zeyen ·Wolfgang Holzmair/Imogen Cooper · Edith Mathis/Hermann Prey/Bernhard Klee/Jorg Demus/Maria Stader · Peter Schreier/Andras Schiff · Janet Baker/Raymond Leppard · Anne Sofie von Otter/Melvyn Tan CD 172 Masonic Hermann Prey/Bernhard Klee · Hans Peter Blochwitz/Rudolf Jansen · Werner Krenn/Edinburgh Festival Chorus/ London Symphony Orchestra/Istvan Kertesz · Wolfgang Holzmair/Imogen Cooper · Dresden Radio Chorus Leipzig · Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart · Members of the Holliger Wind Ensemble · Leipzig Radio Chorus /Staatskapelle Dresden/Peter Schreier CD173 Canons & Partsongs Damenchor Des Concertus Vocalis/Chorus Viennensis/Guido Mancusi/Uwe Christian Harrer · Radio Symphony Orchestra Leipzig/Herbert Kegel · Berlin Soloists/Dietrich Knothe · Sandrine Piau/ Topi Lehtipuu/Frederic Caton/ Quatuor Galuppi · Elly Ameling/Elisabeth Cooymans/Peter van der Bilt /Members of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble ·Members of the Bavarian Radio Symphony OrchestraCDs 174-200 Supplement:CD174-175 Fragments, Discoveries & CuriosBirsak · Webern Kammerchor/Glassner/Radio Symphony Orchestra Wien/De Billy · Liang Zi Lan · Duo Crommelynck · Trio des Joseph-Haydns-Konservatoriums Eisenstadt · Duffe/Ostermann · Bauer · Trotter · Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner · · L'Archibudelli · Prosseda · Macharashvili · Ensemble der Universitaet Graz · Raimondi · Les Solistes des Musiciens du Louvre · Consortium Classicum · Keulen/Brautigam · Acies Quartet · Wah(l)kuren Quartet · Kranebitter · Uchida/King/Black/Farrell/O'Neill · Odinius/Eisenlohr · Thomé/L'Harmonie Bohemienne · Clarinet Connection · English Chamber Orchestra/Tuckwell · Salomon Quartet/Guy · Johnson/Takacs-Nagy/Hirsch/Bouton/Shulman · Lawson/Revolutionary Drawing Room · Kaufmann/Blochwitz/Scharinger/Jansen · Ensemble Plus · Nederlands Solistenensemble · Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble · Hyde · Bilson/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner · Haebler/Capella Academica Wien/Melkus · Craig/Birsak · Smith/Marriner · Eschenbach CD176-178 Works completed by othersAlfred Brendel · Ronald Brautigam/Isabelle van Keulen · Hans Deinzer/Trio di Clarone · Jörg Demus/Paul Badura-Skoda · Albrecht Mayer/Mahler Chamber Orchestra/Claudio Abbado · Francesco Piemontesi · Carl Seemann · Thomas Trotter · Dagmar Schellenberger-Ernst/Rosemarie Lang/Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig/Herbert Kegel · Les Solistes des Musiciens du Louvre · Beaux Arts Trio · Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble · Iona Brown/Stephen Orton/ Nobuko Imai/Howard Shelley/ Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner/Iona Brown · Wiener Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky · Eva Lind/Dresdner Philharmonie/Hans-Peter Blochwitz/ Anton Scharinger/Rudolf Jansen/Julie Kaufmann/René Pape/Münchner Rundfunkorchester/Jörg-Peter Weigle · Stuart Burrows/Robert Lloyd/Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Colin Davis CD179-181 Arrangements of other composersNorthern Chamber Orchestra/Nicholas Ward · Erik Smith · Robert Levin/Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood · Hans-Joachim Ribbe/Rundfunkchor Leipzig/Herbert Kegel · Wiener Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky · Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner · Ton Koopman/Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra · Julie Kaufmann/Münchner Rundfunkorchester/Jörg-Peter Weigle · Hagen Quartet · Thomas Trotter · London Mozart Players/Jane Glover · Andreas Röhn/English Chamber Orchestra/Charles Mackerras/Bryn Terfel/Miah Persson/Scottish Chamber Orchestra CD182-183 Handel Arrangements: Acis und GalateaHandel & Haydn Society/Christopher HogwoodCD184-185 Handel Arrangements: Der MessiasORF-Sinfonieorchester/Charles MackerrasCD186-187 Handel Arrangements: Das Alexander-Fest/Ode auf St. CaeciliaHandel & Haydn Society/Christopher HogwoodCD188-190 Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks/Hans Schmidt-IsserstedtCD191-193 Self-ArrangementsPeter Frankl/Soloists of English Chamber Orchestra · Grumiaux Trio/ Max Lesueur/Árpád Gérecz · Simon Lepper · Francesco Piemontesi · Carl Seemann · Jacques Zoon/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado · Amadeus Winds/Bastiaan Blomhert CD194-200 Works of Doubtful AuthenticityAlessio Allegrini/Alessandro Carbonare/Guilhaume Santana/Lucas Macías Navarro/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado · Artur Balsam · Hermann Baumann/Heinz Holliger/Aurèle Nicolet/Klaus Thunemann/Bryn Terfel/Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner · William Bennett/Grumiaux Trio · Florian Birsak · Peter Frankl/Tamás Vásáry · Mayumi Fujikawa/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Walter Weller · Edita Gruberova/Mozarteum-Orchester Salzburg/Leopold Hager · Michael Harris/Timothy Lines/Colin Lawson · Simon Lepper · Francesco Piemontesi · London Wind Soloists/Jack Brymer · Members of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble; The English Concert/Trevor Pinnock · Wiener Mozart Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky · David Garrett/Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Claudio Abbado · Cecilia Bartoli/Peter Schreier/Andras Schiff · Eva Lind Dresdner Philharmonie/Jörg-Peter Weigle · Rundfunkchor Leipzig/Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Leipzig/Herbert Kegel /Peter Schreier · Wiener Symphoniker/Uwe Christian Harrer
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One of the great box sets ever produced.
I specialize in reviewing box sets and have been doing so for quite a few years, and consider this Mozart 225 box set as great as the Schubert complete songs set released by Hyperion in 2005. About this set BBC music magazine stated " a magnificent project. One of the great achievements of recording history." And I intend to show you why I have come to this conclusion regarding this Mozart box set.BOX SET:The box is made of very heavy cardboard and has grey coloured light canvas placed over it, including the lid which covers the inner box, which has part of the top cut out so you can reach the recordings easily. Four pictures of Mozart's era are placed around the four sides. On one side is also details on paper of what is in the box, held in place by the plastic covering the box. Take it off and place it with the other material included in the box. When I mentioned heavy I meant it. For the person who brought it to the door mentioned that they were glad I was at home, for having to carry it back down to the bottom floor would be too exhausting. " Can I help you carry it inside so you do not ruin your back". It is the size of Glen Gould remastered, and as high as Decca's Britten the complete works.There are four light cardboard cubes ( small boxes) inside the box which contain the CD''s, so you can take out the cubes and place them elsewhere if you so desire. At the end of each cube is one black tape to lift out the booklet, then you can obtain the CD's you wish to hear. This situation is based upon the Von Karajan opera recordings box which has basically the same set up. The four Cubes are divided into (Chamber ) 1-49 with sleeves different shades of Grey. (Orchestral ) 50- 101 same set up.. Both Cubes are in light grey. (Theatre) 152-102 operas starts off with a blue grey sleeve and progresses to a light grey. ( Sacred. Private. Supplement.) 153-200. Black to light grey. On the front of the cubes printed in white is the title. For example, Chamber. Each cube has a booklet with the music to be played and tracks, plus musicians, orchestra, conductor, soloists and singers. This idea comes from the Decca Britten the complete works. The SLEEVE. On the front, for example, Chamber, Number, then the same picture on the front for violin sonatas, then a different picture for piano trio's and so on. The music to be played below it. On the back, number, tracks to be played and music, plus musicians. The CD is the same colour as the sleeves, with Number and cube it comes from and has quite a lot of music on each CD.SOUND:Mastering: The Audio Archiving Company Ltd. (Paschal Byrne & Craig Thompson); Ian Watson & Jenni Whiteside. The sound is excellent and has been remastered.BOOKS:Book 1 Mozart by Cliff Eisen. Chapters. Mozart on the road 1763. Salzburg. 1773-1780. Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791. This biography is based primarily on the Mozart family letters and contemporaneous documents. A picture of Mozart on the heavy cardboard Cover. Book 2. Mozart's music. Ludwig von Kochel and the Kochel catalogue. Chapter headings. Chamber, Orchestral, Theatre and Sacred and private music. Supplement. Fragments and Completions. Arrangements. Doubtful works. At the side of the page number is what section the music comes from. Each musical piece is explained in the chapters with the CD number next to it. Also a chapter Mozart's original instruments. Performing Mozart. Included in Book 2 are the picture credits for Book 1 & 2. Outer box plus CD Sleeves. At the back on page 167 is found how to find the sung texts and translations, plus useful links. Also protection paper found under all the books. This has a image of a watermark from paper probably of Dutch origin used by the Mozarts while in England 1764-65.In a paper sealed Envelope are 5 prints which you can place in a picture frame. Also included on dark paper is the limited edition number, mine is 05269/ 15000. The K book is held in a cardboard music stand holder. The introduction is in English, German, French and Japanese. The numbering of the works in the new edition of the Kochel catalogue combines tradition and current trends. K number. CD number. Title. Date. So as I have shown this set in its presentation does justice to 225th anniversary of Mozart's death on the 5th December 2016. I would say that it is the finest box set I have come across in its presentation as I have already stated.MUSIC:This New complete Mozart edition is as complete as it can be, to a level never before attempted. That is all Mozart's work that is realistically performable is included, with all his significant fragments and sketches, works finished by others, plus arrangements of both his own and others work. New recordings have been made of several performable fragments, some on Mozart's own instruments at the Salzburg Mozarteum foundation, including the first recordings of his recently donated "Costa" violin.By the time of Mozart's bicentenary in 1991, historical instruments were accepted, yet hardly any were used in the Phillips music edition. But this Mozart 225 set has not simply stuck to performances given solely on either period of traditional instruments and includes no less then 30 CDs of "supplementary performances of key works." Over 600 solo performers and ensembles are found in this set. And it should be noted that by using the recordings of DGG, Decca, ASV and twelve other labels all part of the Universal music company, more then two thirds of the selected recordings are different from the Phillips 1991 edition. So as you can see both Period and Modern approaches to this great composer is used. . A Bruggen symphony and the smoother sonorities of a Brendel, Pires or Vegh are found here.CLASSICAL PERIOD: ( 1730-early 1800).Called the age of reason. It was an unsettling period where composers such as Haydn and Mozart created their unique work, with the simplicity and restraint of their music, where the symphony, concerto and the sonata underwent change. Artists looked to the ancient Greeks and Rome for inspiration as it summed up their ideals. HAYDN was the founder of the string quartet, Mozart dedicated six of his own quartets to Haydn, who told his father Leopold, " before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name" (Classical music- J Stanley). What may interest you is the Haydn edition 150 CD's published by Brilliant. Read my review.CD'SAmazon has provided you details of the CD's, so I shall give you reviews of some of the music in each of the sections to give you an idea of what this box is about.CHAMBER:Sonata in e for piano and violin K304. .Lambert Orkis piano Anne- Sophie Mutter Violin. Sonata in D for piano and Violin K306. walter Klien piano & Athur Grumiaux. Sonata in B for piano and violin K378. Sonata in G for piano and violin K379. Maria Joao Pires Piano. Augustin Dumay violin. Modern versions of these pieces by great performers.Divertimento in D K136,B K 137, K138, String Quartet in G K 80. D K155 & 156. Hagen Quartet. Played with charm and polish. An excellent balance between naturalness of utterance and sophistication of tone. String Quartet in G. K 387. This is what chamber music is all about. The Lindsays radiate a delight in their music and judge the character of each piece exactly. Lindsays Quartet. Sonata in E for piano and Violin K 380. Perlman and Barenboim form a distinguished team, with alert, vital playing and a sense of spontaneous music making. There is much attention to detail which makes this piece come over as fresh.The period instruments. Piano Quartet in g K478. Piano quartet in E K493. Quartet Movement in E K493a. Piano Quartet in g K478/Allegro. Les Solistes des musiciens du Louvre. They use Mozart's fortepiano, violin (Costa) and viola, plus Cello-not Mozart's. This gives you an idea of how Mozart heard his music. Totally different to the modern sound. The piano sound is much lighter then most may be use to hearing. The violin you would recognise. I like it. Actually I own the complete set of Beethoven Sonatas played on a fortepiano by Malcolm Binns from the Classical & early Romantic set L' oiseau-lyre. One of my favourite sets of these sonatas, but not to everyone's taste.ORCHESTRAL:Symphony No 1 K 16, No 4 K 19, No 5 K22, No 6 K 43, No 7 K45. No 8 K48, No 9 K 73, No 12 K110, No 13 K112, The English concert, Trevor Pinnock. His Mozart is a smoother but not less vital playing style. Greater polish, smoother and less edgy violins in these authentic instruments renditions. These are early Mozart symphonies. No 16 K128, No 17 K 129, No 18 K130. The playing has polish and sophistication, fine intonation and spontaneity, balanced by warm, lyrical feeling in the slow movements. No 29 K 201. is one of the finest available on either modern or authentic instruments. In fact the English concert brings sweetness to the period instrument sound. They play much of the time as if it were chamber music. Symphony No 31 K297 Paris. No 32 K318. No 33 K 319. No 34 K338. English Baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner. These period instruments lean towards the 19th rather then 18th century manners. This are late Mozart symphonies with a Beethoven tinge. Beethoven was the bridge between the Classical and Romantic period.No 40 in G. Les Musiciens du Louvre. Marc Minkowski. This period instrument rendition is truly individual and very much forward looking. The String playing of the Musiciens du Louvre in the slow movement is lyrical and beautiful. The Minuet is both bold and brisk, and the more lyrical trio brings some superb horn playing. Hogwood with the Academy of ancient music in the No 19 K 132 and No 31 K297 (alternative versions). The music making with authentic instruments is more harsh then the other symphonies, for it was the beginning of this authentic instrument revolution. But I like it.Piano Concerto's No 21 K467,No 24 K491, No 25 K503. No 27 K 595. Malcolm Bilson fortepiano. English baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner. Bilson is an artist of excellent musical judgement and good taste. Authentic instrument music. No 25 K 503. Brendel piano. Scottish chamber orchestra. Cond Mackerras. Modern version. Greeted with wild acclaim. The playing is highly intelligent. No 16 K 451. No 19 K459. Andreas Schiff Piano. Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg. Sander Vegh. Schiff plays a Bosendorfer piano and its relatively gentle, cleanly focused timbre has something of the precision of a fortepiano without any loss of colour which comes with a more modern instrument. In the late 1980's this was considered one of most satisfying cycles of that time and one of the finest since the Perahia's cycle of the late 1970's.THEATRE:Apollo et Hyacinthus (complete) This opera was written when Mozart was eleven, with all but two of the parts taken by school children. The style of the writing and vocalization is rather simpler than in other dramatic works of the boy Mozart, but the inspiration is still remarkable, astonishingly mature. The performance here is stylish and very well sung. Auger, Mathis, Rolfe Johnson, Hanna Schwarz, Salzburg Chamber & Mozarteum cond Hager.Mitridate, re di Ponto. Bartoli, Dessay, Sabbatini, Asawa, Piau, Les Talens Lyriques, Rosset. he conducts his period forces with a panache that disguises the weaknesses. Bartoli is outstanding as the hero. Dessay is rich of tone and agile in coloratura, Piau to be found in Baroque operas is softer- grained. An excellent set. Mozart was not quite 15 when he composed this first carnival opera for the Milanese opera house, which was shortly to become La Scala.Idomeneo, re di Creta K 366. munich version, 1781, in its original version. Rolfe Johnson,Von Otter, Mcnair, Hillevi Martinpelto, English Baroque soloists Cond John Eliot Gardiner. Exhilarating vigour and fine singing, Gardiner's aim has been to include all the material Mozart wrote for the original 1781 production. Gardiner's Mozartian style is well sprung. The principals sing beautifully.Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. Hinze, Lynne Dawson, Uwe Heilmann. The Academy of ancient Music Cond Hogwood. in what was the first (originally Oiseau-lyre) period recording of this opera. An excellent cast. Dawson is is a dazzling Konstanze, Uwe Heilmann as Belmonte sings beautifullyLe Nozze di Figaro. Hagegard, Auger, Bonney, Della jones, Nancy Argenta. Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra Arnold Ostman. The Figaro, the first to be recorded with period instruments by Oiseau-Lyre, gives the opera a newly minted sound. Every instrument is at least subtly different from its modern counterpart. With such a orchestra and more animated tempos, encourage an intimacy of expression that changes the way one had perceived Mozart's operas. The excellently prepared cast has been welded into a strong ensemble that achieves the naturalness and quick give and take of a performance in a the spoken theatre. This Figaro is complete.Don Giovanni. D'Arcangelo. Luca Pisaroni makes a lyrical Leporello, Donna Anna Diana Damrau, Don Ottavio Rolando Villazon, Donna Elvira Joyce DiDonato. D' Arcangelo is a very good Don Giovanni and passionate. Mahler Chamber orchestra-Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Recorded in 2012. A fine up to date cast with stars Villazon, Damrau and DiDonato a mezzo. The orchestra is influenced by period instrument speeds.Cosi fan Tutte. Fleming, von Otter, Olaf Bar, Frank Lopardo, chamber orchestra of Europe. Influenced by Period instruments swift speeds. Solti takes a fast and light approach. The singers are at their peak. Altogether Solti's finest Mozart recording .Die Zauberflote. Rene Pape, Erika Miklosa, Roschmann, Stehl, Brachmann, Mahler Chamber orch Claudio Abbado.. (Live) This performance has freshness and charm, Rene Pape's magnificent Sarastro dominates the opera. Roschmann and Stehl are a perfectly matched Pamina and Tamino, for both have lovely voices. Strehl is ardent and Roschmann is infinitely touching when she mistakenly thinks Tamino is lost to her forever.La clemenza di Tito. Trost, Kozena, Martinpelto, Rice. Scottish chamber Orchestra cond Mackerras. Here modern instruments, used with concern for period performance. The cast is good.Le Nozze di Figaro. Poell, della Casa, Gueden, Siepi, Danco, Rossel-Majdan, corena, Dickie, Anny Felbermayer. Vienna Philharmonic cond Erich Kleiber. Recorded 1955 at the dawn of stereo and remains to this day one of the most loveable accounts on CDs. This is a classic. Beautifully played by the Vienna Philharmonic and therefore very much a Viennese performance. "No lover of this opera should be without it," states Gramophone 2009.This should give you a glimpse about what this box is about, a mixture of the period and modern instruments and their different approaches.This box set would make a fine Christmas present. Imagine being given this as a gift and opening up the box set and going through the books and listening to the music at the same time. A present to remember. I hope you enjoy this box set as much as I do.REFERENCES:Gramophone year book 2009. The Penguin guide to recorded Ckassical music 1996 and 2008. Stanley, J. Classical music. 1994. Reed International Ltd.
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I am amaze with the beauty and size of this Mozart 225 box set! If I had to pay 2 or even 3 times what I paid for it I wouldn’t have mind at all. And it is so well packaged. It was shipped from Amazon UK to the USA. The box and everything in it arrived in complete mint condition even though it traveled half way around the world. There is not even a scratch or dented corner. Either Amazon or DG/Decca took the time and expense to ensure it was package well. Please see my uploaded photos.Initially I was VERY hesitant to spend several hundred dollars buying this box set. You have to understand that I already owned the original 180 CD set of the complete Mozart issued in the 1990s and it had set me back a tidy sum back then. I am glad I went against my doubts and purchase this set.I have about 40 “mega” classical box sets from Warner/EMI/Erato, Sony/RCA/Columbia and Decca/DG. I thought my Murray Perahia, Yo-yo Ma and Complete Rubinstein box sets from Sony/RCA were great but this Mozart 225 box tops ever box set I have by a huge margin. Everything about the box and contents radiates beauty, elegance and quality. The photos really don’t do the box justice. It is just pure delight and magnificence and a great sense of joy owning something like this and slowly sampling all the wonder music in the 200 CDs.For those of you like me who already own the 1991 Philips Mozart Edition 180 CD set, I recommend you purchase this. The Philips set couldn’t even compare with this set:1) The music quality of this set tops the Philips version by a wide margin.2) 70% of the recordings are different from the 1991 Philips Mozart Edition.3) There are an additional 20 CDs compare to the 1991 Philips version (200 vs 180 CDs).4) This set provides authoritative works in the form of 2 fully and beautifully illustrated hardback books that are detailed, informative and thorough.Philips is now owned by the Universal Music Group (UMG) and due to its ownership of the DG, Decca and Philips labels UMG now owns the greatest classical catalog ever assembled. UMG has drawn on this catalog to create the greatest Mozart collection ever available in this set. If you were to require each of these outstanding works individually, it would cost you thousands of pounds, assuming if it is even available and in print.This wonderful set has a limited edition of 15,000. My version is already in the high 6000s and I had ordered my copy very early. Some commentators on Classical Music forums or web sites mention receiving numbers as high as the 9000s. Get it before this magnificent and wonderful set is sold out just like prior legendary sets like the “142 CD Arthur Rubinstein: The Complete Album Collection” that are now sold for up to 10 times its original price.Christmas is coming and this should be on any classical music fan’s wish list.
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