Numbered, Limited Edition - Only 1200 Units!
180g Vinyl 8LP Box Set!
Pressed at Optimal!
Mastered From Original Analogue Tape Preservation Files!
It is already a landmark in the history of recorded music and one of the crown jewels in Deutsche Grammophon's catalog, but this special edition of Herbert von Karajans 1963 Beethoven Symphony Cycle is a particularly thrilling part of the DG120 celebrations. Only 1,200 of this 8LP set will be manufactured, presented in a luxury black linen box with artwork specially commissioned from artist Gregor Hildebrandt, who uses fragments of pre-recorded cassette tape as raw material in his creative process. Pressed on 180gram vinyl by OPTIMAL and mastered from original ATP files.
Karajan recorded the Complete Symphonies of Beethoven no fewer than 4 times for DG, but his first recording, made in 1963, was financially the most daring, artistically the most radical, and commercially the most successful. It was estimated that over 100,000 boxes would have to be sold if Deutsche Grammophon's gargantuan 1.5 million Deutschmark investment was to be recouped. The head of a rival company predicted that Deutsche Grammophon was heading for "a colossal financial catastrophe". By 1973 nearly one million sets had been sold, ten times the original breakeven estimate. 50 years on from its original launch, the set remains the best-selling Beethoven cycle of all time. The 1963 Berlin set dazzled like no other, aided in no small measure by the clean, clear, daringly "lit" recordings made in Berlin's Jesus-Christus-Kirche by the young Günter Hermanns whose debut as Karajan's principal recording engineer this was. Critics and the record-buying public were enthused above all by the urgency and beauty of the music-making and by a fierce sense of joy which reached its apogee in a thrillingly played and eloquently sung account of the finale of the epic Ninth Symphony.
Features:
Numbered, Limited Edition - 1200 Units
8LP Box Set
Luxurious black linen box
180g Vinyl
Pressed at Optimal
Mastered from the original Analogue Tape Preservation (ATP) files
Special art edition designed by artist Gregor Hildebrandt
Printed and made in the EU
Musicians:
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Selections:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
9 Symphonies
LP 1
Side A:
Symphony No.1 in C, op.21
1. 1. Adagio molto. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Andante cantabile con moto
3. 3. Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace)
4. 4. Finale (Adagio. Allegro molto e vivace)
Side B:
Symphony No.2 in D, op.36
1. 1. Adagio molto. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Larghetto
3. 3. Scherzo (Allegro)
4. 4. Allegro molto
LP 2
Symphony No.3 in E-Flat, op.55, Eroica
Side A:
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
Side B:
1. 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
2. 4. Finale (Allegro molto)
LP 3
Symphony No.4 in B-Flat, op.60
Side A:
1. 1. Adagio. Allegro vivace
2. 2. Adagio
Side B:
1. 3. Allegro vivace
2. 4. Allegro ma non troppo
LP 4
Symphony No.5 in C Minor, op.67
Side A:
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Andante con moto
Side B:
1. 3. Allegro
2. 4. Allegro
LP 5
Symphony No.6 in F, op.68, Pastoral
Side A:
1. 1. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
2. 2. Szene am Bach: (Andante molto mosso)
Side B:
1. 3. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute (Allegro)
2. 4. Gewitter, Strum (Allegro)
3. 5. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefuhle nach dem Sturm: Allegretto
LP 6
Symphony No.7 in A, op.92
Side A:
1. 1. Poco sostenuto. Vivace
2. 2. Allegretto
Side B:
1. 3. Presto. Assai meno presto
2. 4. Allegro con brio
LP 7
Symphony No.8 in F, op.93
Side A:
1. 1. Allegro vivace e con brio
2. 2. Allegretto scherzando
3. 3. Tempo did menuetto
4. 4. Allegro vivace
Side B:
Symphony No.9 in D Minor, op.125, Choral Beginning
1. 1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
LP 8
Symphony No.9 in D Minor, op.125, Choral Conclusion
Side A:
1. 2. Molto vivace
2. 3. Adagio molto e conatabile
Side B:
1. 4. Presto
2. 5. Presto. "O Freunde nicht diese Tone"
180g Vinyl 8LP Box Set!
Pressed at Optimal!
Mastered From Original Analogue Tape Preservation Files!
It is already a landmark in the history of recorded music and one of the crown jewels in Deutsche Grammophon's catalog, but this special edition of Herbert von Karajans 1963 Beethoven Symphony Cycle is a particularly thrilling part of the DG120 celebrations. Only 1,200 of this 8LP set will be manufactured, presented in a luxury black linen box with artwork specially commissioned from artist Gregor Hildebrandt, who uses fragments of pre-recorded cassette tape as raw material in his creative process. Pressed on 180gram vinyl by OPTIMAL and mastered from original ATP files.
Karajan recorded the Complete Symphonies of Beethoven no fewer than 4 times for DG, but his first recording, made in 1963, was financially the most daring, artistically the most radical, and commercially the most successful. It was estimated that over 100,000 boxes would have to be sold if Deutsche Grammophon's gargantuan 1.5 million Deutschmark investment was to be recouped. The head of a rival company predicted that Deutsche Grammophon was heading for "a colossal financial catastrophe". By 1973 nearly one million sets had been sold, ten times the original breakeven estimate. 50 years on from its original launch, the set remains the best-selling Beethoven cycle of all time. The 1963 Berlin set dazzled like no other, aided in no small measure by the clean, clear, daringly "lit" recordings made in Berlin's Jesus-Christus-Kirche by the young Günter Hermanns whose debut as Karajan's principal recording engineer this was. Critics and the record-buying public were enthused above all by the urgency and beauty of the music-making and by a fierce sense of joy which reached its apogee in a thrillingly played and eloquently sung account of the finale of the epic Ninth Symphony.
Features:
Numbered, Limited Edition - 1200 Units
8LP Box Set
Luxurious black linen box
180g Vinyl
Pressed at Optimal
Mastered from the original Analogue Tape Preservation (ATP) files
Special art edition designed by artist Gregor Hildebrandt
Printed and made in the EU
Musicians:
Berliner Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Selections:
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
9 Symphonies
LP 1
Side A:
Symphony No.1 in C, op.21
1. 1. Adagio molto. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Andante cantabile con moto
3. 3. Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace)
4. 4. Finale (Adagio. Allegro molto e vivace)
Side B:
Symphony No.2 in D, op.36
1. 1. Adagio molto. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Larghetto
3. 3. Scherzo (Allegro)
4. 4. Allegro molto
LP 2
Symphony No.3 in E-Flat, op.55, Eroica
Side A:
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Marcia funebre (Adagio assai)
Side B:
1. 3. Scherzo (Allegro vivace)
2. 4. Finale (Allegro molto)
LP 3
Symphony No.4 in B-Flat, op.60
Side A:
1. 1. Adagio. Allegro vivace
2. 2. Adagio
Side B:
1. 3. Allegro vivace
2. 4. Allegro ma non troppo
LP 4
Symphony No.5 in C Minor, op.67
Side A:
1. 1. Allegro con brio
2. 2. Andante con moto
Side B:
1. 3. Allegro
2. 4. Allegro
LP 5
Symphony No.6 in F, op.68, Pastoral
Side A:
1. 1. Erwachen heiterer Empfindungen bei der Ankunft auf dem Lande: Allegro ma non troppo
2. 2. Szene am Bach: (Andante molto mosso)
Side B:
1. 3. Lustiges Zusammensein der Landleute (Allegro)
2. 4. Gewitter, Strum (Allegro)
3. 5. Hirtengesang. Frohe und dankbare Gefuhle nach dem Sturm: Allegretto
LP 6
Symphony No.7 in A, op.92
Side A:
1. 1. Poco sostenuto. Vivace
2. 2. Allegretto
Side B:
1. 3. Presto. Assai meno presto
2. 4. Allegro con brio
LP 7
Symphony No.8 in F, op.93
Side A:
1. 1. Allegro vivace e con brio
2. 2. Allegretto scherzando
3. 3. Tempo did menuetto
4. 4. Allegro vivace
Side B:
Symphony No.9 in D Minor, op.125, Choral Beginning
1. 1. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
LP 8
Symphony No.9 in D Minor, op.125, Choral Conclusion
Side A:
1. 2. Molto vivace
2. 3. Adagio molto e conatabile
Side B:
1. 4. Presto
2. 5. Presto. "O Freunde nicht diese Tone"
