includes:

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

                  Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 'Pastoral' Leonard Bernstein

                  Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 Rafael Kubelik

                  Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral' James Levine

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68

              Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

              Tragic Overture, Op. 81

              Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 James Levine

              Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Herbert von Karajan

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major Carlo Maria Giulini

                Symphony No. 8 in C minor Pierre Boulez

                Symphony No. 9 in D Minor Carlo Maria Giulini

                Mass No. 1 in D Minor John Eliot Gardiner

Chabrier: España

                Suite Pastorale John Eliot Gardiner

Dvorak: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 10

             Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70 Myung-whun Chung

             Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 Herbert von Karajan

Elgar: Enigma Variations, Op. 36 John Eliot Gardiner

Haydn: Symphony No. 88 in G major

            Symphony No. 92 in G major 'Oxford' Leonard Bernstein

Lehár: Die Lustige Witwe John Eliot Gardiner

Mahler: Symphony No. 4 Bruno Walter

            Symphony No. 5 Pierre Boulez

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504 'Prague' Bruno Walter

            Serenade No. 9 in D major, K320 'Posthorn'

            Serenade No. 13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik' James Levine

            Symphony No. 29 in A major, K201

            Violin Sonata No. 35 in A major, K526

            Masonic Funeral Music in C minor, K477

            Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543

            Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550

            Symphony No. 41 in C major, K551 'Jupiter' Karl Böhm

            Requiem in D minor, K626 Herbert von Karajan

Schoenberg: Gurrelieder Claudio Abbado

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great' Hans Knappertbusch

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 Herbert von Karajan

                  Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

                  Manfred Overture, Op. 115 Giuseppe Sinopoli

Smetana: Má Vlast

               The Bartered Bride Overture, (extracts) Incidental MusicJames Levine

Strauss, R: Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53

                 Macbeth, Op. 23 Lorin Maazel

                 Der Rosenkavalier - Suite

                 Intermezzo, Op. 72

                 Orchestral Music from Intermezzo, Salome & Capriccio André Previn

                 Eine Alpensinfonie, Op. 64

                 Der Rosenkavalier - Suite Christian Thielemann

                 Horn Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, Op. 11

                 Horn Concerto No. 2 in E flat major, AV132

                 Oboe Concerto in D André Previn

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake: Ballet Suite

                     The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty James Levine

                     Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36

                     Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' Claudio Abbado

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll

              Tannhäuser: Overture

              Tristan und Isolde (excerpts) Jessye Norman (soprano) Herbert von Karajan

175 years ago, on March 28th 1842, Otto Nicolai raised the baton for the first ever concert of a new ensemble destined to become one of the world’s great orchestras. With its unmistakeable sound, the Wiener Philharmoniker has always been a defined by its unswerving commitment to the great German tradition of orchestral playing.
44-CD + Bonus-DVD Deluxe Limited Edition developed and edited in close collaboration with the orchestra.
Presented in a luxury box with matt lamination, UV spot varnish and hot-foil printed gold, the box includes cover art from the original releases.
The set includes rare photographs from the archives of the Wiener Philharmoniker as well as two new sets of liner notes by Dr. Silvia Kargl, Head of the Historic Archive of the Vienna Philharmonic, and Richard Evidon.
Major works by Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler, Mozart and Richard Strauss are conducted by the most distinguished orchestral leaders including Abbado, Bernstein, Böhm, Boulez, Furtwängler, Gardiner, Giulini, Harnoncourt, Karajan, Knappertsbusch, Levine, Previn, Thielemann and more, with recordings spanning from 1951 to 2004.
Bonus DVD of the famous 1989 New Year’s Concert conducted by Carlos Kleiber.
Deutsche Grammophon’s 175th Anniversary Edition offers a hand-picked selection of the best albums of the orchestra released on the label. It is both a glorious overview of the orchestra’s core repertoire, while exploring its deep collaborations with the most influential and distinguished conductors of the past 50 years: Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Leonard Bernstein, Karl Böhm, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.