The official jubilee edition

For the 100^th anniversary of Salzburg Festival 1920 – 2020 on 58 CDs 

• A wide-ranging retrospective and a comprehensive portrait of the greatest classical music festival in the world
• Unforgettable recordings from 1947–2016, a 164-p. booklet with insightful essays by Karajan biographer Richard Osborne, and by Salzburg’s Director of Dramaturgy, Margarete Lasinger, in addition to detailed documentation and original stage and concert photos from the Salzburg Festival Archive
• Curation in four chapters and in chronological order: Operas, Concerts, Recitals, and Spoken Word
• With great conductors: Claudio Abbado, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, Riccardo Muti, Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta and many more
• Unforgettable singers: Lisa della Casa, Plácido Domingo, Christa Ludwig, Anna Netrebko, Jessye Norman, Hermann Prey, Lisa della Casa, Hans Hotter, Cheryl Studer, Rolando Villazón, Fritz Wunderlich and many more
• Outstanding soloists: Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Grigory Sokolov and many more

 
Includes rare recordings of particular interest:

• First CD release of Mozart’s Symphonies Nos. 26 & 30, conducted by Bernhard Paumgartner, the festival’s driving force in the 1950s
• The 1958 recording of “Jedermann”, a spoken word theatre play. “Jedermann” (“Everyman”) is traditionally mounted on Salzburg’s cathedral square and it is a centerpiece of the festival.
• Karajan’s 1959 account of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice: this was a glorious moment in Karajan’s career, and a re-enactment of his own triumphant Gluck performance from 1948

Dimensions: 133 mm x 133 mm x 133 mm

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Until 30 June all purchasers will enjoy exclusive access to a special website by the Karajan Institute.

The Karajan Institute will open up its archive and present revealing documentary material online: 

• Video interviews with first-hand witnesses
• Letters to and from Herbert von Karajan
• Posters, concert programmes and photos of memorable performances
• and lots more

Herbert von Karajan was for decades the most artistically significant figure of the Salzburg Festival. His artistic vision and sound-aesthetic rewrote the history of interpretation, and continue to exercise their fascination to this day.

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REPERTOIRE:

OPERAS
CD 1–3 1947 Richard Strauss: Arabella
Reining · Della Casa · Hotter · Taubmann
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karl Böhm

CD 4–5 1954 Richard Strauss: Ariadne
Della Casa · Güden · Seefried · Schock · Schöffler
Wiener Philharmoniker · Böhm

CD 6–7 1958 Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo
Fernandi · Jurinac · Simionato · Bastianini · Siepi · Stefanoni
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 8–9 1959 Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Simionato · Jurinac · Sciutti
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 10–11 1959 Richard Strauss: Die schweigsame Frau
Güden · Wunderlich · Prey · Hotter
Wiener Philharmoniker · Böhm

CD 12–14 1960 Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Della Casa · Jurinac · Güden · Edelmann · Kunz
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 15–16 1961 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo
Kmentt · Grümmer · Lorengar · Haefliger
Wiener Philharmoniker · Fricsay

CD 17–18 1962 Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore
Corelli · Price · Simionato · Bastianini
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 19–21 1969 Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier
Ludwig · Troyanos · Mathis · Adam · Wiener
Wiener Philharmoniker · Böhm

CD 22–23 1974 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte
Janowitz · Fassbaender · Grist · Schreier · Prey · Panerai
Wiener Philharmoniker · Böhm

CD 24–26 1977 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni
Milnes · Tomowa-Sintow · Zylis-Gara · Mathis · Schreier · Berry · Macurdy · Duesing
Wiener Philharmoniker · Böhm

CD 27–28 1992 Leoš Janáček: From the House of the Dead
Ghiaurov · Smytka · Pederson · Langridge · Zednik · McCauley
Wiener Philharmoniker · Abbado

CD 29–30 2005 Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata
Netrebko · Villazón · Hampson
Wiener Philharmoniker · Rizzi

CD 31–32 2007 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin
Mattei · Samuil · Gubanova · Kaiser · Furlanetto
Wiener Philharmoniker · Barenboim

CONCERTS
CD 33 1957 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 & 41 “Jupiter”
Piano Concerto No. 21 · Anda
Berliner Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 34 1961 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 26, Arias · Streich
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums · Paumgartner

CD 35 1962 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Arias · Stader
Camerata Academica des Mozarteums · Paumgartner

CD 36 1966 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 “Jupiter”
Wiener Philharmoniker · Böhm

CD 37 1967 Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 3 · Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
Wiener Philharmoniker · Mehta

CD 38 1968 Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8
Johann I & II & Josef Strauss: Waltzes · Polkas · Marches
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 39 1972 Béla Bartók: Piano Concerto No. 3 · Anda
Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Staatskapelle Dresden · Karajan

CD 40–41 1975 Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 ·
Wiener Philharmoniker · Bernstein

CD 42 1987 Richard Wagner: Orchestral Works · Norman
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 43 1988 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto · Mutter
Wiener Philharmoniker · Karajan

CD 44–45 1991 Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis · Studer · Norman · Domingo · Moll
Wiener Philharmoniker · Levine

CD 46 1992 Hector Berlioz: Symphony fantastique
Franz Liszt: Les Préludes
Chicago Symphony Orchestra · Solti

CD 47 1993 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
1994 The Tempest
Berliner Philharmoniker · Abbado

CD 48 1997 Béla Bartók: 4 Orchestral Pieces
Pierre Boulez: Notations
Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester · Boulez

CD 49 2013 Gustav Mahler: Das klagende Lied
Alban Berg: Lulu-Suite · Prohaska
Wiener Philharmoniker · Boulez

CD 50–51 2017 Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 2
Richard Strauss: Der Bürger als Edelmann
Wiener Philharmoniker · Muti

RECITALS
CD 52 2001 Alfred Brendel: Haydn · Schubert · Wagner
CD 53 2007 Alfred Brendel: Haydn · Beethoven · Schubert · Mozart
CD 54–55 2008 Grigory Sokolov: Mozart · Chopin · Scriabin · Bach · Rameau
CD 56 2009 Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire: Brahms · Schubert · Ravel

BONUS - SPOKEN WORD
CD 57 1958 Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Jedermann
CD 58 1961 Bernhard Paumgartner: Erzähltes Leben