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

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

Each CD is devoted to a single conductor who has left their mark on the Staatskapelle’s playing.

A ‘bonus’ disc documents some of the distinguished resident and guest conductors from the shellac era

The accompanying booklet includes a Foreword by Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle’s general

music director; an essay examining the century of recordings represented in this set and a comprehensive timeline chronicling the orchestra’s 450-year history, by Detlef Giese, principal dramaturge at the State Opera Unter den Linden

• Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
• Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
• Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
• Bizet: Carmen: Entr'actes
• Bizet: Carmen: Prelude to Act I
• Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No. 2: IV. Farandole
• Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
• Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
• Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor - Finale
• Conti, F: Tu lumen mentis es (from Languet anima mea)
• Dvořák: Slavonic Dance No. 8 in G minor, Op. 46 No. 8
• Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'
• Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber
• Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
• Mascagni: Le Maschere: Overture
• Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21
• Mozart: Ballet Music from Idomeneo, K367
• Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620: Overture
• Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527: Overture
• Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro K492 - Sinfonia
• Mozart: Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K477
• Mozart: String Quintet No. 6 in E flat major, K614
• Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C major, K338
• Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550
• Nicolai, C O: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor overture
• Reger: Variations and Fugue for Orchestra on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 132
• Reznicek: Donna Diana Overture
• Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5
• Schubert: Rosamunde, D797: Entr'acte No. 1
• Schubert: Rosamunde, D797: Overture
• Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
• Smetana: Vltava (from Má Vlast)
• Strauss, R: Don Quixote, Op. 35
• Strauss, R: Salome: Dance of the Seven Veils
• Strauss, R: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
• Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
• Verdi: La forza del destino Overture
• Verdi: La traviata: Prelude to Act 1
• Verdi: La traviata: Prelude to Act 3
• Wagner: Das Rheingold: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla
• Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer: Overture
• Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Act 1
• Wagner: Die Walkure: Magic Fire Music
• Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
• Wagner: Siegfried: Waldweben
• Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Act 2
• Weber: Der Freischütz Overture
• Weill, K: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
• Wolf-Ferrari: Il segreto di Susanna Overture