As the Staatskapelle Berlin celebrates its 450th anniversary, Deutsche Grammophon presents 15 discs of sound recordings of outstanding artistic merit from the venerable, world-class orchestra under its great conductors.Included on disc for the first time are broadcast recordings and rare treasures from the shellac era.Each CD is devoted to a single conductor who has left their mark on the Staatskapelle’s playing : Richard Strauss, Leo Blech, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Joseph Keilberth, Franz Konwitschny, Sergiu Celibidache, Otmar Suitner, Pierre Boulez, Michael Gielen, Daniel Barenboim, Zubin Mehta.

Presenting an abundance of new, state-of-the-art remasterings (apart from discs 13 & 14) reflecting the orchestra’s Viennese Classical repertory, the symphonies of high and late Romanticism from Schubert to Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler, with the dawn of modernism represented by works by Richard Strauss, Reger and Schoenberg as well as by Paul Dessau, while the Staatskapelle’s operatic repertoire is represented largely by Wagner.

Content:CD1 RICHARD STRAUSSMOZART: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K 550 / R. STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche op. 28 / Don Quixote op. 35CD2 LEO BLECHMOZART: Overtures: Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Idomeneo: Ballet Music: Chaconne; Gavotte; Maurerische Trauermusik, K 477 (479a) ; Symphony No. 34 in C major K 338 / BIZET: Carmen: Prelude & Entr’actes / BIZET: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2: Farandole / WAGNER: Das Rheingold: Einzug der Götter in Walhall? Siegfried: Waldweben? Die Walküre: Wotans Abschied und FeuerzauberCD3 OTTO KLEMPERERBEETHOVEN: Overture “Coriolan” op. 62 / MENDELSSOHN: Overture “Ein Sommernachtstraum” op. 21 / BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C minor op. 68 / R. STRAUSS: Salome op. 54: Tanz der sieben Schleier / KURT WEILL: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik (excerpts)CD4 ERICH KLEIBERSMETANA: The Moldau (Vltava) / DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9 in E minor “From the New World” op. 95 / BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5 in C minor op. 67CD5 HERBERT VON KARAJANMOZART: Die Zauberflöte: Overture / VERDI. La forza del destino: Overture (Sinfonia) / BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A major op. 92 / BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 8 in C minor: 4. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnellCD6 WILHELM FURTWANGLER WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde: Act IICD7 JOSEPH KEILBERTH VERDI: Macbeth: Acts I & IICD8 FRANZ KONWITSCHNY WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act ICD9 SERGIU CELIBIDACHE DVOŘÁK. Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor op. 46/8 / HINDEMITH: Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber / BRAHMS: Symphony No. 4 in E minor op. 98CD10 OTMAR SUITNER DESSAU: Symphonic Adaptation after the Quintet inE flat major K 614 by W. A. Mozart / REGER: Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart op. 132 / SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern D 797 (excerpts)CD11 PIERRE BOULEZ MAHLER: Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”CD12 MICHAEL GIELEN SCHUBERT: Symphony No. 8 in B minor “Unfinished” D 759 / SCHOENBERG: Pelleas und MelisandeCD13 DANIEL BARENBOIM BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 5 in B flat majorCD14 ZUBIN MEHTA BEETHOVEN: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C minor op. 37 / TCHAIKOVSKY: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in B flat minor op. 23CD15 Recordings from the shellac era WAGNER: Der fliegende Holländer: Overture ∙ Parsifal: Final Scene (Act III) - Conductor: Max von Schillings / MASCAGNI Le maschere: Sinfonia - Conductor: Pietro Mascagni / PFITZNER: Palestrina: Prelude (Act I) - Conductor: Hans Pfitzner