Bruno Walter - The Columbia Album Collection

He was Mahler's disciple and friend in Vienna before World War I, then went on to become one of the most illustrious conductors of the century. Accordingly, the recordings that Bruno Walter made for American Columbia between 1941 and 1961, the year before his death, have always enjoyed a special authoritative status. Sony Classical presents his entire Columbia Masterworks discography together for the first time in a single release of 77 CDs, with his complete stereo recordings on 31 CDs newly remastered from the original 2- and 3-track analogue tapes and 29 mono recordings remastered from the original analogue master discs and tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology, presenting many early recordings for the first time on CD on Sony Classical. An all-embracing survey of Bruno Walter s recorded achievements. Symphonies, overtures and other orchestral works by Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner Wagner, Schumann, Dvo ák, Richard Strauss, Smetana and others, performed by the New York Philharmonic and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Concertos, opera and song recitals in collaborations with Rudolf Serkin, Zino Francescatti, Pierre Fournier, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern, Joseph Szigeti, Leonard Rose, Dési Halban, Lotte Lehmann, Lily Pons, Eleanor Steber, Ezio Pinza and George London. The set includes a hard-cover illustrated 200-page coffee-table book with an essay by Bruno Walter scholar Erik Ryding, photos and facsimiles from the New York Philharmonic archives, full discographical notes, work index and a Bruno Walter / Columbia discography, as well as 8 CDs with a collection of interviews and rehearsal excerpts. The first ever collection of Bruno Walter s Complete Recordings for Columbia Masterworks on 77 CDs His complete stereo recordings on 31 CDs newly remastered from the original 2- and 3-track analogue tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology 29 mono recordings remastered from the original analogue discs and tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology Symphonies, overtures and other orchestral works, concertos, opera and song recitals, recorded from 1941 to 1961 An all-embracing survey of Bruno Walter s recorded achievements with the New York Philharmonic and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra Includes collaborations with Rudolf Serkin, Zino Francescatti, Pierre Fournier, Nathan Milstein, Isaac Stern, Joseph Szigeti, Leonard Rose, Dési Halban, Lotte Lehmann, Lily Pons, Eleanor Steber, Ezio Pinza and George London Hard-cover illustrated 200-page coffee-table book with an essay by Bruno Walter scholar Erik Ryding, photos and facsimiles from the New York Philharmonic archives, full discographical notes, work index and a Bruno Walter / Columbia discography 8 CDs with a collection of interviews and rehearsal excerpts Facsimile LP sleeves and labels