Chailly Symphony Edition [55 CD]

No living conductor has had such a long and exclusive partnership with a record label as Riccardo Chailly and Decca. Born in an era when such relationships were the norm – Karajan in Berlin; Ozawa in Boston; Solti in Chicago – it is now unique in our industry and a milestone worthy of celebration. In recognition of these 40 years Decca present a 55CD set of his complete symphony recordings, documenting an astonishing  breadth of repertoire and his relationships with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, all presented in the inimitable and classic Decca Sound.

 

55 CD original jacket, original couplings collection celebrating Maestro Riccardo Chailly’s 40 years on Decca.

Includes complete cycles of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Bruckner and Mahler.

Featuring the orchestras with whom Chailly has been most closely associated: the Gewandhausorchester, the Royal Concertgebouw, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

120 page perfect bound book, including: a new retrospective by James Jolly with interviews with Maestro Chailly and his Decca producers

Includes the award-winning Beethoven and Brahms cycles from Leipzig and critically-acclaimed reference cycles of Mahler and Bruckner from Amsterdam.

Schumann’s symphonies with both the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and, in Mahler’s orchestrations, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

The sonically spectacular Messiaen Turangalîla-Symphonie with Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Zemlinsky’s rare early Symphony in B Flat plus the Lyric Symphony.

Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D minor and Symphonic Variations with Jorge Bolet as soloist.

Mendelssohn 2 ‘Lobgesang’ from his inaugural concerts as Music Director of the Gewandhaus using the composer’s original published score (the first conductor to record this version) & the late-analogue recording in the revised version with the London Philharmonic: first released in 1980 on Philips LP.

Mendelssohn 3 ‘Scottish’ with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in the 1842 London version” & in the revised more familiar score with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Berio’s Sinfonia, recorded in the presence of the composer himself.