The legendary Philips edition - The Complete Compact Mozart Edition is reissued in time for the 2006 anniversary. Originally released in 2001, this 180-CD collection contains Mozart's complete oeuvre and has proven to be the most successful edition in the history of the recording industry. The massive undertaking of recording the 45 volumes was preceded by years of preparation and included many recordings of pieces that had never previously seen the light of day! The hard labour, love and devotion that had been put into this brave and ambitious project would never have been possible without the inspiration that the world's most beloved composer had given to so many of the people involved

ARTISTS
Luciana Serra · Kiri te Kanawa · Montserrat Caballé · Mirella Freni · Norma Burrowes · Barbara Hendricks, sopranos
Janet Baker · Yvonne Minton, mezzos
Francisco Araiza, Nicolai Gedda, tenors
Ingvar Wixell, baritone
Alfred Brendel · Mitsuko Uchida, piano
Heinz Holliger, oboe
BBC Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis
ASMIF / Sir Neville Marriner et al

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Overture ( Le nozze di Figaro , K492)
Andante ( Piano Concerto in C major , K467)
Der Hölle Rache ( Die Zauberflöte , K620)
Allegro in B flat major, KA91
Laudate dominum ( Vesperae solennes de confessore , K339)
Allegretto ( Quintet for Piano & Winds , K452)
Di scrivermi ogni giorno ( Così fan tutte , K588)
Rondeau ( Oboe Quartet , K370)
Welche Wonne, welche Lust ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail , K384)
Alla turca: Allegretto ( Piano Sonata in A major , K331)
Andro ramingo e solo ( Idomeneo , K366)
Adagio ( Serenade in B flat major , K361 'Gran Partita')
Das Bandel: Liebes Mandel, wo is's Bandel? K441
Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio ( Le nozze di Figaro , K492)
Rondeau ( Serenata notturna in D major , K239)
Das Veilchen, K476
Menuetto ( Symphony No.41 in C major , K551 'Jupiter')
Là ci darem la mano ( Don Giovanni , K527)
Ave verum corpus, K618

Deutsche Grammophon's splendid celebration of the Mozart bicentenary in 1956 is lovingly re-created - and significantly expanded! - in these beautiful retrospective sets.

Fifty years ago Deutsche Grammophon celebrated the 200th anniversary of Mozart's birth with a special Jubilee Edition. Released in May 1956, it consisted of three double LPs enclosed in a slipcase. Now, in 2006, we are celebrating Mozart's 250th anniversary with an extended version of the original edition: There are two box sets, each containing three double digi-packs - more than twice the size and length of the 1956 release (limited edition). Each digi-pack is also available separately.

On this release
Volume 1 (477 5806):

There is a double CD brings together Ferenc Fricsay's complete repertoire of Mozart orchestral works, in fresh and lively recordings - several first-time international releases on CD (477 5807).

There is also an entire set devoted to the piano concerto, featuring an exceptional team of mainly female soloists (Clara Haskil, Monique Haas, Margrit Weber, and Annie Fischer - the odd-man-out, as it were, is Mieczyslaw Horszowski). Except for the Haskil, all of these recordings are appearing for the first time on CD (477 5808).

A purely chamber music set offers rare recordings by the Amadeus and Lowenguth Quartets (both quartets and quintets), as well as by Bruno Hoffmann on glass harmonica, the wonderfully ethereal instrument originally specified for the Adagio and Rondo, one of Mozart's last works - all completely new to CD (477 5809).

Each digi-pack comes with booklet (20 / 24 pages) with new retrospective essays, photos and illustrations, mirroring the style of the original edition.

The second boxed set in this recreation of the 1956 Mozart Jubilee Edition features both vocal music and a collection of serenades.

ARTISTS
RIAS SO Berlin
RSO Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wiener Symphoniker
Ferenc Fricsay

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Symphonies Nos. 29, 35 & 41
Adagio & Fugue KV 546
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Symphonies Nos. 39 & 40
Masonic Funeral Music KV 477

ARTISTS
Amadeus Quartet
Lowenguth Quartet

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Quartet in E flat major, K. 428
Quartet in F major, K. 590
Quartet in B flat major K. 458 'The Hunt'
Quintet in G minor K. 516
Quintet for Piano and Winds in E flat, K. 452
Adagio and Rondo in C minor K. 617a

ARTISTS
Irmgard Seefried · Maria Stader, sopranos
Getrude Pitzinger, mezzo
Richard Holm, tenor
Kim Borg, bass
Alois Forer, organ
Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
Wiener Symphoniker
Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral
Berliner Philharmoniker
Igor Markevitch
Eugen Jochum
Ferenc Fricsay

TRACKLISTING
MOZART : Requiem in D minor, K. 626
Mass in C major, K. 317 'Coronation Mass'
Laudate Dominum (Vesperae de Dominica K. 321)
Agnus Dei (Litaniae Lauretanae K. 195)
Et incarnatus est (Great Mass in C minor K. 427)
Laudate Dominum (Vesperae solennes de confessore K.339)
Exsultate, jubilate K. 165

ARTISTS
Rita Streich · Maria Stader · Irmgard Seefried, sopranos
Christa Ludwig, mezzo
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Berlin Philharmoniker
Lehmann · Leitner · Fricsay et al

TRACKLISTING
MOZART : Overture ( Idomeneo )
'Non temer amato bene' ( Idomeneo )
'Wenn der Freude Tränen fließen' · 'Ach, Belmonte, ach mein Leben' ( Die Entführung aus dem Serail )
'March and Fandango' · 'E Susanna non vien..Dove sono' · 'Aprite un po' che gl'occhi' · 'Voi che sapete' · 'Venite, inginocchiatevi' ( Le nozze di Figaro )
Overture ( Così fan tutte )
'Dalla sua pace' · 'Madamina' ( Don Giovanni )
'Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben' ( Zaide )
Overture ( Il rè pastore )
Overture ( La clemenza di Tito )
Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja' · 'Ziele führt dich diese Bahn' · 'Der Hölle Rache' ( Die Zauberflöte)

ARTISTS
Karl Benzinger, posthorn
Dénes Zsigmondy, violin
Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Ferdinand Leitner
Bamberger Symphoniker / Ferdinand Leitner
Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker / Fritz Lehmann

TRACKLISTING
MOZART : Serenade No. 9 in D major K. 320 'Posthorn'
Serenade No. 7 in D major K. 250 'Haffner'
Serenade No. 10 in B flat major for 12 Wind Instruments and Double Bass K. 361 'Gran Partita'

ARTISTS
Clara Haskil · Margrit Weber · Annie Fischer · Monique Haas · Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano Berliner Philharmoniker · Festival Strings Lucerne · Bayerischer Staatsorchester  
Fricsay · Leitner · Baumgartner

TRACKLISTING
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major K. 459
Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major K. 414
Concert Rondo in D major K. 382
Concert Rondo in A major K. 386
Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major K. 488
Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major K. 415
Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat major K. 449