The most complete and authoritative edition of Mozart's works on 200CDs
In celebration of Mozart’s 225th anniversary, presented by Decca Classics and Deutsche Grammophon
in partnership with the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation
This individually-numbered limited edition is a fusion of the latest scholarship with 240 hours of benchmark performances
from 600 world-class artists and state-of-the-art sound recording.
- All Mozart’s completed works including for the first time the Handel and Bach arrangements
- Over 100 fragments, completions by other composers and doubtful works
- 30CDs of alternative performances of key masterpieces
- 5 hours of newly recorded performances including on Mozart’s own instruments
- World premiere recordings including recent discoveries
- 18 labels represented including many rare and unique recordings
- 70% of recordings different from 1991 Philips Mozart Edition
- Complete symphonies and concertos on period instruments plus many traditional-instrument and classic performances
- Performed by the world's greatest artists including
Abbado, Barenboim, Bartoli, Böhm, Brendel, Brüggen, Damrau, DiDonato, Fleming, Gardiner, Hogwood, Mackerras, Marriner, Mutter, Nézet-Séguin, Östman, Pinnock, Pires, Schiff, Solti, Terfel, Uchida, Villazón and Wunderlich
- 2 fully-illustrated hardback books: a brand new Mozart biography by Cliff Eisen, plus 120000 words of feature essays and work- by- work commentary from 30 renowned Mozart scholars
- 5 frameable art prints, plus the last authenticated portrait, two score manuscripts and a letter to his father, courtesy of Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation
- A new 'K Book' exclusive to this Edition presenting the numbering of the long-awaited new Köchel catalogue
- Complete performer index, free access to online Urtext scores and groundbreaking Libretto App with full sung texts and translations