Contents

• CD 1-15 BEETHOVEN: The Symphonies ∙ Overtures ∙ Piano Concertos 3, 4, 5 (Zimerman) ∙ String Quartet Nos. 14 & 16 ∙ Missa solemnis ∙ Fidelio ∙ Ode an die Freiheit (Berlin 1989, Live)
  • THE FINAL CONCERT – BRITTEN: Four Sea Interludes ∙ BEETHOVEN: Symphony 7
• CD 16-30
  • BERNSTEIN :
    • ∙ Symphonies 1-3 ∙ Chichester Psalms ∙ Serenade ∙ Fancy Free (ballet) ∙ Dybbuk: Suites 1 & 2 ∙ Songfest ∙ 8 Divertimentos ∙ A Musical Toast ∙ Slava ∙ On the Town (3 Dance Episodes) ∙ Facsimile ∙ Halil
    •  ∙ Mass: 3 Meditations ∙ On the Waterfront: Symphonic Suite ∙ Prelude, Fugues & Riffs ∙ West Side Story: Symphonic Dances ∙ Jubilee Games ∙ Candide ∙ West Side Story ∙ A Quiet Place
  • FOSS: The Song of Songs
  • GERSHWIN: Rhapsodie in Blue
  • TREDICI: Tattoo
  • ROREM: Violin Concerto
• CD 31-32 BIZET: Carmen
• CD 33-39 BRAHMS: Symphonies 1-4 ∙ Piano Concertos 1-2 ∙ Academic Festival Overture ∙ Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn ∙ Tragic Overture ∙ Concerto for Violin ∙ Concerto for Violin & Violoncello
• CD 40 BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9
• CD 41-43 COPLAND: Appalachian Spring ∙ Symphony No. 3 ∙ Quiet City ∙ El Salon Mexico ∙ Concerto for Clarinet and Strings ∙ Music for the Theatre ∙ Connotations for orchestra
• CD 44 DEBUSSY: Images ∙ Prélude à l'après-midi d’un faune ∙ La Mer
• CD 45-46 DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 ∙ 8 Slavonic Dances ∙ Concerto for Violoncello / BLOCH: Schelomo
• CD 47 ELGAR: Enigma Variations ∙ Pomp and Circumstance ∙ From the Crown of India
• CD 48 FRANCK: Symphony in D minor / SAINT-SAENS: Le Rouet d'Omphale / ROUSSEL: Symphony No. 3
• CD 49 HARRIS: Symphony No. 3 / W. SCHUMAN: Symphony No. 3
• CD 50-54 HAYDN: Symphonies Nos. 88, 92, 94, 102 ∙ Sinfonia Concertante ∙ Die Schöpfung ∙ Missa in tempora belli “Paukenmesse”
• CD 55 HINDEMITH: Symphony ‘Mathis der Maler’ ∙ Concert Music for String Orchestra and Brass ∙ Symphonic Metamorphoses
• CD 56 IVES: Symphony No. 2 ∙ The Gong ∙ Tone Roads No.1 ∙ Hymn ∙ Hallowe'en ∙ Central Park in the Dark ∙ The Unanswered Question
• CD 57 LISZT: A Faust Symphony
• CD 58 BOITO: Mefistofele ∙ Proloue
• CD 59-77 MAHLER: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 10 ∙ Das Lied von der Erde ∙ Des Knaben Wunderhorn ∙ Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen ∙ Kindertotenlieder ∙ Rückert-Lieder
• CD 78-79 MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies Nos. 3-5 ∙ Hebridean Overture
• CD 80-87 MOZART: Symphonies Nos. 25, 29, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40 ∙ Clarinet Concerto ∙ Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 17 ∙ Ave verum corpus ∙ Exsultate jubilate ∙ Great Mass in C minor ∙ Requiem / RAVEL: Piano Concerto in G
• CD 88-89 PUCCINI: La Bohème
• CD 90-91 SCHUBERT: Symphonies Nos. 8, 5, 9
• CD 92-94 SCHUMANN: Symphonies Nos. 1-4 ∙ Concerto for Violoncello ∙ Piano Concerto in A minor
• CD 95-97 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphonies Nos. 1, 6, 7, 9
• CD 98-100 SIBELIUS: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 5, 7
• CD 101 R. STRAUSS: Salome (selections) ∙ 5 Songs for Voice & Orchestra
• CD 102-106 STRAVINSKY: L'oiseau de feu (Suite) ∙ Pulcinella (Suite) ∙ Petruschka ∙ Scenes de ballet ∙ Le Sacre du Printemps ∙ Symphony in C ∙ Symphony in 3 Movements ∙ Les Noces
• CD 107-111 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6 ∙ Francesca da Rimini ∙ Fantasy Overture Romeo and Juliet ∙ Hamlet Overture ∙ Slavonic March ∙ Capriccio Italien ∙ 1812 Festival Overture
• CD 112-115 WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde
• CD 116-121 CONCERT & MUSICAL ANALYSIS on American Decca
  • Beethoven – Symphony No. 3 & Musical Analysis
  • Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 & Musical Analysis
  • Schumann – Symphony No. 2 & Musical Analysis
  • Brahms – Symphony No. 4 & Musical Analysis
  • Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 6 & Musical Analysis

• DVD1-8 BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 9 ∙ Missa Solemnis ∙ Choral-Fantasy ∙ Creatures of Prometheus ∙ Overtures ∙ String Quartet No. 14 ∙ Piano Concertos Nos. 1 – 5 ∙ Fidelio
• DVD9-10 BERNSTEIN: Divertimento ∙ Serenade for Solo Violin & String Orchestra ∙ Candide
• DVD11-14 BRAHMS: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 4 ∙ Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 2 ∙ Concerto for Violin and Orchestra ∙ Concerto for Violin ∙ Violoncello and Orchestra
• DVD15 GERSHWIN: An American in Paris / IVES: Symphony No. 2 ∙ The Unanswered Question
• DVD16 HAYDN: Die Schöpfung
• DVD17-27 MAHLER: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 10 ∙ Das Lied von der Erde ∙ Orchestral Songs / Rehearsals / The Little Drummer Boy: An essay on Gustav Mahler by and with Leonard Bernstein
• DVD28-29 MOZART: Great Mass in C minor ∙ Ave verum corpus ∙ Requiem
• DVD30-31 SCHUMANN: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 4 ∙ Concerto for Violoncello
• HAYDN: Concerto for Violoncello
• DVD32 SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 9
• DVD33 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5 ∙ Violin Concerto ∙ Andante cantabile
• DVD34 BERNSTEIN: West Side Story – The Making of
• DVD35 THE GIFT OF MUSIC
• DVD36 ROSTROPOVICH / BERNSTEIN: Schumann Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra

• Blu-ray Audio BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 9

About

• “The greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists … He is a universal genius” ARTHUR RUBENSTEIN
• Leonard Bernstein’s complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca presented together for the first time with his video-taped performances on Unitel.
• Each album presented in original jackets.
• 200-page book (in E/F/G) with extensive documentation including:
  • 1. A preface by Bernstein’s daughter, Jamie Bernstein; and essays from:
  • 2. Nigel Simeone, editor of The Bernstein Letters;
  • 3. Bernstein’s biographer, Humphrey Burton;
  • 4. Journalist, Wolfgang Stähr;
  • 5. Numerous photographs and facsimiles from the archives of Deutsche Grammophon and the Bernstein Estate
• “If I don't become Brahms or Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky when I'm conducting their works, then it won't be a great performance.” LEONARD BERNSTEIN
• Leonard Bernstein unquestionably was one of the most astonishing and dazzling personalities in the world of classical music. He bestrode the musical scene in the second half of the 20th century like few others:
  As composer, conductor, pianist, but it as a great communicator – of music and through music – that every facet of his life and legacy is bound together.
  The love of music (and of humanity) he shared so passionately with his fellow musicians is audibly communicated to all of us today through the recordings in this limited edition 158-disc Anniversary set.
• For the last decade of his life he recorded exclusively for Deutsche Grammophon, having also made several recordings for the label in the 1970s.
  Bernstein’s recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Decca capture an artist in the full flower of his creative power with deep mastery of the repertoire –
  and his performances with some of the world’s greatest orchestras reflect the most profound mutual respect, giving rise to one memorable performance after another.
• “… Art is nothing to me if it does not make contact between the creator and the perceiver on an unconscious level.” LEONARD BERNSTEIN
• "I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it, studying it, or thinking about it." LEONARD BERNSTEIN

HIGHLIGHTS FROM AN ILLUSTRIOUS RECORDING CAREER

• Bernstein conducting Bernstein
• The complete Beethoven symphony cycle (Presented on 24-bit Blu-ray Audio with 4-channel Surround Sound), plus the Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 with Krystian Zimerman
• Celebrated Haydn performances
• Complete Mahler Symphonies, including the famous Berlin Philharmonic recording of the Ninth (Bernstein understood and communicated the music of Mahler at a level that was positively uncanny.)
• Bernstein conducting from the piano: Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 17 and Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G
• Benchmark recordings of Shostakovich’ Symphonies and Stravinsky’s Les Noces (featuring Martha Argerich and Krystian Zimerman)
• Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, recorded on Philips in 1981 – Bernstein described it as “The finest thing I have ever done” and Karl Böhm had this to say when he visited Bernstein during rehearsals:
  “For the first time, someone dares to perform this music as Wagner wrote it.”
• The American Decca Recordings for which Bernstein provided lucid, engaging explanations of such iconic works as:
  Beethoven’s “Erocia”, Schumann’s Second, Dvořák’s “New World”, Brahms’s Fourth and Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” in recordings made in 1953 / 1956
• 36 DVDs presenting Bernstein’s Unitel live recordings