Mozart 225: The New Complete Edition [English Language Version]

I specialize in reviewing box sets and have been doing so for quite a few years, and consider this Mozart 225 box set as great as the Schubert complete songs set released by Hyperion in 2005. About this set BBC music magazine stated " a magnificent project. One of the great achievements of recording history." And I intend to show you why I have come to this conclusion regarding this Mozart box set.BOX SET:The box is made of very heavy cardboard and has grey coloured light canvas placed over it, including the lid which covers the inner box, which has part of the top cut out so you can reach the recordings easily. Four pictures of Mozart's era are placed around the four sides. On one side is also details on paper of what is in the box, held in place by the plastic covering the box. Take it off and place it with the other material included in the box. When I mentioned heavy I meant it. For the person who brought it to the door mentioned that they were glad I was at home, for having to carry it back down to the bottom floor would be too exhausting. " Can I help you carry it inside so you do not ruin your back". It is the size of Glen Gould remastered, and as high as Decca's Britten the complete works.There are four light cardboard cubes ( small boxes) inside the box which contain the CD''s, so you can take out the cubes and place them elsewhere if you so desire. At the end of each cube is one black tape to lift out the booklet, then you can obtain the CD's you wish to hear. This situation is based upon the Von Karajan opera recordings box which has basically the same set up. The four Cubes are divided into (Chamber ) 1-49 with sleeves different shades of Grey. (Orchestral ) 50- 101 same set up.. Both Cubes are in light grey. (Theatre) 152-102 operas starts off with a blue grey sleeve and progresses to a light grey. ( Sacred. Private. Supplement.) 153-200. Black to light grey. On the front of the cubes printed in white is the title. For example, Chamber. Each cube has a booklet with the music to be played and tracks, plus musicians, orchestra, conductor, soloists and singers. This idea comes from the Decca Britten the complete works. The SLEEVE. On the front, for example, Chamber, Number, then the same picture on the front for violin sonatas, then a different picture for piano trio's and so on. The music to be played below it. On the back, number, tracks to be played and music, plus musicians. The CD is the same colour as the sleeves, with Number and cube it comes from and has quite a lot of music on each CD.SOUND:Mastering: The Audio Archiving Company Ltd. (Paschal Byrne & Craig Thompson); Ian Watson & Jenni Whiteside. The sound is excellent and has been remastered.BOOKS:Book 1 Mozart by Cliff Eisen. Chapters. Mozart on the road 1763. Salzburg. 1773-1780. Mozart in Vienna 1781-1791. This biography is based primarily on the Mozart family letters and contemporaneous documents. A picture of Mozart on the heavy cardboard Cover. Book 2. Mozart's music. Ludwig von Kochel and the Kochel catalogue. Chapter headings. Chamber, Orchestral, Theatre and Sacred and private music. Supplement. Fragments and Completions. Arrangements. Doubtful works. At the side of the page number is what section the music comes from. Each musical piece is explained in the chapters with the CD number next to it. Also a chapter Mozart's original instruments. Performing Mozart. Included in Book 2 are the picture credits for Book 1 & 2. Outer box plus CD Sleeves. At the back on page 167 is found how to find the sung texts and translations, plus useful links. Also protection paper found under all the books. This has a image of a watermark from paper probably of Dutch origin used by the Mozarts while in England 1764-65.In a paper sealed Envelope are 5 prints which you can place in a picture frame. Also included on dark paper is the limited edition number, mine is 05269/ 15000. The K book is held in a cardboard music stand holder. The introduction is in English, German, French and Japanese. The numbering of the works in the new edition of the Kochel catalogue combines tradition and current trends. K number. CD number. Title. Date. So as I have shown this set in its presentation does justice to 225th anniversary of Mozart's death on the 5th December 2016. I would say that it is the finest box set I have come across in its presentation as I have already stated.MUSIC:This New complete Mozart edition is as complete as it can be, to a level never before attempted. That is all Mozart's work that is realistically performable is included, with all his significant fragments and sketches, works finished by others, plus arrangements of both his own and others work. New recordings have been made of several performable fragments, some on Mozart's own instruments at the Salzburg Mozarteum foundation, including the first recordings of his recently donated "Costa" violin. By the time of Mozart's bicentenary in 1991, historical instruments were accepted, yet hardly any were used in the Phillips music edition. But this Mozart 225 set has not simply stuck to performances given solely on either period of traditional instruments and includes no less then 30 CDs of "supplementary performances of key works." Over 600 solo performers and ensembles are found in this set. And it should be noted that by using the recordings of DGG, Decca, ASV and twelve other labels all part of the Universal music company, more then two thirds of the selected recordings are different from the Phillips 1991 edition. So as you can see both Period and Modern approaches to this great composer is used. . A Bruggen symphony and the smoother sonorities of a Brendel, Pires or Vegh are found here.CLASSICAL PERIOD: ( 1730-early 1800).Called the age of reason. It was an unsettling period where composers such as Haydn and Mozart created their unique work, with the simplicity and restraint of their music, where the symphony, concerto and the sonata underwent change. Artists looked to the ancient Greeks and Rome for inspiration as it summed up their ideals. HAYDN was the founder of the string quartet, Mozart dedicated six of his own quartets to Haydn, who told his father Leopold, " before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name" (Classical music- J Stanley). What may interest you is the Haydn edition 150 CD's published by Brilliant. Read my review.CD'SAmazon has provided you details of the CD's, so I shall give you reviews of some of the music in each of the sections to give you an idea of what this box is about.CHAMBER:Sonata in e for piano and violin K304. .Lambert Orkis piano Anne- Sophie Mutter Violin. Sonata in D for piano and Violin K306. walter Klien piano & Athur Grumiaux. Sonata in B for piano and violin K378. Sonata in G for piano and violin K379. Maria Joao Pires Piano. Augustin Dumay violin. Modern versions of these pieces by great performers.Divertimento in D K136,B K 137, K138, String Quartet in G K 80. D K155 & 156. Hagen Quartet. Played with charm and polish. An excellent balance between naturalness of utterance and sophistication of tone. String Quartet in G. K 387. This is what chamber music is all about. The Lindsays radiate a delight in their music and judge the character of each piece exactly. Lindsays Quartet. Sonata in E for piano and Violin K 380. Perlman and Barenboim form a distinguished team, with alert, vital playing and a sense of spontaneous music making. There is much attention to detail which makes this piece come over as fresh.The period instruments. Piano Quartet in g K478. Piano quartet in E K493. Quartet Movement in E K493a. Piano Quartet in g K478/Allegro. Les Solistes des musiciens du Louvre. They use Mozart's fortepiano, violin (Costa) and viola, plus Cello-not Mozart's. This gives you an idea of how Mozart heard his music. Totally different to the modern sound. The piano sound is much lighter then most may be use to hearing. The violin you would recognise. I like it. Actually I own the complete set of Beethoven Sonatas played on a fortepiano by Malcolm Binns from the Classical & early Romantic set L' oiseau-lyre. One of my favourite sets of these sonatas, but not to everyone's taste.ORCHESTRAL:Symphony No 1 K 16, No 4 K 19, No 5 K22, No 6 K 43, No 7 K45. No 8 K48, No 9 K 73, No 12 K110, No 13 K112, The English concert, Trevor Pinnock. His Mozart is a smoother but not less vital playing style. Greater polish, smoother and less edgy violins in these authentic instruments renditions. These are early Mozart symphonies. No 16 K128, No 17 K 129, No 18 K130. The playing has polish and sophistication, fine intonation and spontaneity, balanced by warm, lyrical feeling in the slow movements. No 29 K 201. is one of the finest available on either modern or authentic instruments. In fact the English concert brings sweetness to the period instrument sound. They play much of the time as if it were chamber music. Symphony No 31 K297 Paris. No 32 K318. No 33 K 319. No 34 K338. English Baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner. These period instruments lean towards the 19th rather then 18th century manners. This are late Mozart symphonies with a Beethoven tinge. Beethoven was the bridge between the Classical and Romantic period.No 40 in G. Les Musiciens du Louvre. Marc Minkowski. This period instrument rendition is truly individual and very much forward looking. The String playing of the Musiciens du Louvre in the slow movement is lyrical and beautiful. The Minuet is both bold and brisk, and the more lyrical trio brings some superb horn playing. Hogwood with the Academy of ancient music in the No 19 K 132 and No 31 K297 (alternative versions). The music making with authentic instruments is more harsh then the other symphonies, for it was the beginning of this authentic instrument revolution. But I like it.Piano Concerto's No 21 K467,No 24 K491, No 25 K503. No 27 K 595. Malcolm Bilson fortepiano. English baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner. Bilson is an artist of excellent musical judgement and good taste. Authentic instrument music. No 25 K 503. Brendel piano. Scottish chamber orchestra. Cond Mackerras. Modern version. Greeted with wild acclaim. The playing is highly intelligent. No 16 K 451. No 19 K459. Andreas Schiff Piano. Camerata Academica des Mozarteums Salzburg. Sander Vegh. Schiff plays a Bosendorfer piano and its relatively gentle, cleanly focused timbre has something of the precision of a fortepiano without any loss of colour which comes with a more modern instrument. In the late 1980's this was considered one of most satisfying cycles of that time and one of the finest since the Perahia's cycle of the late 1970's.THEATRE:Apollo et Hyacinthus (complete) This opera was written when Mozart was eleven, with all but two of the parts taken by school children. The style of the writing and vocalization is rather simpler than in other dramatic works of the boy Mozart, but the inspiration is still remarkable, astonishingly mature. The performance here is stylish and very well sung. Auger, Mathis, Rolfe Johnson, Hanna Schwarz, Salzburg Chamber & Mozarteum cond Hager.Mitridate, re di Ponto. Bartoli, Dessay, Sabbatini, Asawa, Piau, Les Talens Lyriques, Rosset. he conducts his period forces with a panache that disguises the weaknesses. Bartoli is outstanding as the hero. Dessay is rich of tone and agile in coloratura, Piau to be found in Baroque operas is softer- grained. An excellent set. Mozart was not quite 15 when he composed this first carnival opera for the Milanese opera house, which was shortly to become La Scala.Idomeneo, re di Creta K 366. munich version, 1781, in its original version. Rolfe Johnson,Von Otter, Mcnair, Hillevi Martinpelto, English Baroque soloists Cond John Eliot Gardiner. Exhilarating vigour and fine singing, Gardiner's aim has been to include all the material Mozart wrote for the original 1781 production. Gardiner's Mozartian style is well sprung. The principals sing beautifully. Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail. Hinze, Lynne Dawson, Uwe Heilmann. The Academy of ancient Music Cond Hogwood. in what was the first (originally Oiseau-lyre) period recording of this opera. An excellent cast. Dawson is is a dazzling Konstanze, Uwe Heilmann as Belmonte sings beautifullyLe Nozze di Figaro. Hagegard, Auger, Bonney, Della jones, Nancy Argenta. Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra Arnold Ostman. The Figaro, the first to be recorded with period instruments by Oiseau-Lyre, gives the opera a newly minted sound. Every instrument is at least subtly different from its modern counterpart. With such a orchestra and more animated tempos, encourage an intimacy of expression that changes the way one had perceived Mozart's operas. The excellently prepared cast has been welded into a strong ensemble that achieves the naturalness and quick give and take of a performance in a the spoken theatre. This Figaro is complete.Don Giovanni. D'Arcangelo. Luca Pisaroni makes a lyrical Leporello, Donna Anna Diana Damrau, Don Ottavio Rolando Villazon, Donna Elvira Joyce DiDonato. D' Arcangelo is a very good Don Giovanni and passionate. Mahler Chamber orchestra-Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Recorded in 2012. A fine up to date cast with stars Villazon, Damrau and DiDonato a mezzo. The orchestra is influenced by period instrument speeds.Cosi fan Tutte. Fleming, von Otter, Olaf Bar, Frank Lopardo, chamber orchestra of Europe. Influenced by Period instruments swift speeds. Solti takes a fast and light approach. The singers are at their peak. Altogether Solti's finest Mozart recording .Die Zauberflote. Rene Pape, Erika Miklosa, Roschmann, Stehl, Brachmann, Mahler Chamber orch Claudio Abbado.. (Live) This performance has freshness and charm, Rene Pape's magnificent Sarastro dominates the opera. Roschmann and Stehl are a perfectly matched Pamina and Tamino, for both have lovely voices. Strehl is ardent and Roschmann is infinitely touching when she mistakenly thinks Tamino is lost to her forever.La clemenza di Tito. Trost, Kozena, Martinpelto, Rice. Scottish chamber Orchestra cond Mackerras. Here modern instruments, used with concern for period performance. The cast is good.Le Nozze di Figaro. Poell, della Casa, Gueden, Siepi, Danco, Rossel-Majdan, corena, Dickie, Anny Felbermayer. Vienna Philharmonic cond Erich Kleiber. Recorded 1955 at the dawn of stereo and remains to this day one of the most loveable accounts on CDs. This is a classic. Beautifully played by the Vienna Philharmonic and therefore very much a Viennese performance. "No lover of this opera should be without it," states Gramophone 2009.This should give you a glimpse about what this box is about, a mixture of the period and modern instruments and their different approaches.This box set would make a fine Christmas present. Imagine being given this as a gift and opening up the box set and going through the books and listening to the music at the same time. A present to remember. I hope you enjoy this box set as much as I do.REFERENCES:Gramophone year book 2009. The Penguin guide to recorded Ckassical music 1996 and 2008. Stanley, J. Classical music. 1994. Reed International Ltd.

It took me a year (off and on) to listen to every single cd of this Mozart 225 set!! A herculean feat! An incredible joy of a journey through Mozart’s mind and soul.It took me many many months to hunt it down on various sites, as it is out of print and the ones I did see were almost £1000! Luckily an English one with a slightly worn and damaged outer box turned up on amazon for £225! I snagged right away!The contents of this beautiful box is absolutely exceptional and wonderfully curated, (though I feel they did not as pull out all the stops as they did for the Bach 333 box). I will leave the details of the performances to other reviewers since that would take another year!Personally I would have liked to see more alternative performances for composition in each genre). Nevertheless it is VASTLY superior to the Complete Philips Edition!The accompanying material includes two beautiful and full hardcover books on the life and the works of Mozart. As well, each of the four musical genres the set is divided in comes with a thick mini booklet listing all the track listings, performers and recording information. I would have liked to see full translations included (as they included for the Bach333 set). But perhaps that would be too costly for them. Fortunately they produced a beautiful Mozart225 app which includes all the libretti and translations.One serious gripe I have with this set (and the Bach333 set), is that each individual CD sleeve does not have any timings for the tracks whatsoever. It only has the name of the piece and the names of the performers. There was ample space to put the timings! What you have to do is keep opening one of the four mini thick genre booklets to see this! Very very annoying.Also, there was one single disc which I found that had no written information on it and was missed and left blank: Disc no.176. It is a supplementary disc anyway and only contains very minor works that have been completed by composers or musicologists. Not a big loss but also still somewhat annoying. Another nice thing to note is that about 90% of the discs are over 80 minutes!All-in-all this is a stupendous Box which is beautiful to look, to hold and to listen to! To know that so much care went into it is a miracle unto itself.Highly recommended if you can find it and can afford it!!

Esta cajita (según entiendo) es la primera de una serie titulada “The New Complete Edition”. Además de Mozart, existe la de Bach y la de Beethoven (ojalá y en un futuro aparezcan las de Schubert/Brahms/Schumann). Las tres, debo decirlo, son extraordinarias. Sin embargo, esta collection, de Mozart, es mi preferida. No hay disco que no revele la obra en cuestión. Excelente selección, excelentes interpretaciones. Gran trabajo de erudición que demuestra que se pueden hacer proyectos en conjunto sin importar las competencia entre distintas casas disqueras.No dejo de sorprenderme. Si la encuentran por ahí, dense el gusto, a pesar del precio. Si no la encuentran, sirva el contenido para ir adquiriendo por separado lo que, sin duda, son las mejores interpretaciones.

An absolutely fabulous collection of all Mozart's music by many, varied talented artists/conductors! There are multiple versions of some pieces by different artists/conductors so you really get a feel for how differently a given piece can sound simply due to the different interpretations by that artist/conductor.Many of the pieces presented here are different than those in the original Philips Mozart collection from years back, which is excellent, and this is actually a complete collection of ALL Mozart's music... including the handful of 'dubious' pieces which are said to be by Mozart but little to no proof exists beyond perhaps similarities in style and the time period that music came from.An EXCELLENT purchase!!!

Cette intégrale est absolument exceptionnelle. D'abord, il y a vraiment toutes les oeuvres de Mozart, y compris celles d'attribution douteuse. Ensuite les deux livres accompagnant cette intégrale sont de très beaux objets. Encore, le le catalogue Koechel joint au coffret permet de voir l'évolution du génie de Mozart. Enfin le choix des interprètes est remarquable et je suis tout à fait d'accord avec ce qu'en dit Operabear dans son commentaire. Si la part belle est faite aux instruments d'époque, il y aussi de nombreuses interprétations sur instruments modernes y compris des interprétations historiques (Les noces par Kleiber avec Lisa Della Casa et Cesare Siepi par exemple, des concertos avec Brendel dirigé par Mackerras ou avec Bernstein ). Que dire des interprètes exceptionnels que l'on trouve dans ce coffret! Rien que pour les opéras, on trouve:Mitridate par Rousset avec Natalie Dessay et Cecilia Bartoli, Idomeneo par Gardiner avec Anne Sofie von Otter, Don Giovanni par Nezet-Seguin avec D'arcangelo, Villazon et Joyce Di Donato, Cosi Fan Tutte par Solti avec Renée Flemming et Anne Sofie von Otter, La Clémence de Titus par Mackerras. Pour les symphonies, le choix est tout aussi exceptionnel avec Pinnock, Bruggen (sa quarantieme est formidable mais le coffret contient aussi une version exceptionnelle par Sando Vegh), Hogwood. Pour le reste de l'oeuvre orchestrale, on retrouve Hogwood, Abbdo (avec Mari Rao Pires), Bruggen, Gardiner, Hogwood. Il est impossible de citer tous les artistes ayant participé à cette intégrale mais contrairement à ce qui le commentaire d'Armand Loyal, ce sont toujours des versions de référence (il n'y a qu'à regarder les résultats de La Tribune des Critiques de disque sur France Musique). le fait de pouvoir avoir plusieurs versions d'une même oeuvre est un plus que l'on retrouve rarement dans une intégrale ainsi la quarantième a droit à trois versions: Brüggen, Minkowski, Britten. Ce coffret, à un prix somme toute modique rapporté aux nombre de CD, n'est pas loin de représenter la discothèque idéale de Mozart. Je n'y ai pour le moment pas trouvé de mauvaises versions. Il y a parfois de meilleures (mais sûrement pas Klemperer que je trouve très bon dans Beethoven mais pas dans Mozart) et je suis toujours enthousiaste des concertos par Clara Haskil mais rien n'empêche de compléter ensuite avec des choix plus personnel.

Inhalt und Qualität der Edition sind hervorragend! Jedoch sollte der stolze Neubesitzer seine Kollektion auf Vollständigkeit und Fehlerfreiheit überprüfen. In der meinigen fehlte die CD 40, CD 38 war dafür doppelt vorhanden. CD 167 hatte wohl einen Fehler und konnte in keinem meiner Geräte gelesen werden. Ein anderer Käufer berichtet hier von einem fehlerhaften Booklet.Eine Mail an die DG, mit der Bitte um Ersatz der fehlenden, bzw. fehlerhaften CDs, erbrachte lediglich eine Standard-Mail als Antwort, mich bitte an den Händler zu wenden, um von diesem Ersatz zu erhalten. Auf eine weitere Mail an Decca erhielt ich keine Antwort.Letztlich habe ich dann den gewohnt hervorragenden Umtauschservice von Amazon in Anspruch genommen und eine neue Edition erhalten. Dennoch finde ich es schade, daß keine Möglichkeit bestand hier individuell Ersatz zu leisten, statt die gesamte Kollektion zu tauschen und nun eine tolle Box zur Gebrauchtware geworden ist.Die Edition erhält von mir aufgrund ihrer sehr hohen Qualität (Inhalt, Design) dennoch fünf Sterne, da diese kleinen Mängel dahinter zurückstehen. Für Aficionados ist diese Box ein Muß!!

If weight is any indication of the value of a collection then this may be the finest such box set ever released. It is heavy, perhaps approaching forty pounds in weight. Released in commemoration of the 225th anniversary of Mozart's death, there are treasures contained within so its weight and its surprising density strike me as utterly appropriate. Included are two beautifully illustrated books written by Mozart scholar Professor Clifford Eisen: the first book devoted to Mozart's life and career, the second an analysis of his music. Eisen has an encyclopedic knowledge of Mozart's life and work and his analysis of both is especially significant in light of recent discoveries made by scholars like Wolfgang Plath analyzing the minutiae of Mozart's handwriting and Alan Tyson's brilliant analysis of Mozart's manuscript paper, which was handmade and bore a distinctive watermark. Scholars have gleaned a wealth of new information about Mozart's day-to-day creative activity and Eisen's synthesis of these new insights is especially important and timely. Another significant event was the 2004 discovery that the "Jeunehomme" Piano Concerto No.9 in E-flat major K.271 was mis-named and that the eponymous pianist was actually Victoire Jenamy, which solved a two century old mystery. This new monograph by Eisen is especially useful for its inclusion of the latest discoveries.Also included in this collection is the publication for the first time of a new Kochel guide, offering in short form the new Kochel catalogue developed over several decades by the International Stiftung Mozarteum. The updated Kochel guide is an attempt to standardize the numbering of Mozart's 700 completed works and fragments along with those spurious and doubtful compositions that have accreted to the Mozart name over the past 225 years. Lovers of Mozart's music have an especially close relationship with the Kochel catalogue and its all-important "K" numbers. Four frame-able prints are included in every set, including a copy of a Mozart letter and a small reproduction of a score. These are an especially nice touch that help to place Mozart's unique and slightly remote genius into a personal context, helping to humanize it so far as that is possible.This Edition presents more than 240 hours of music arranged chronologically, claiming some 600 solo performers and ensembles including as many as 60 orchestras and nearly every important Mozart interpreter of the past 30 years. The recordings of Mozart's earliest works are usually by so-called historically informed performers. For example, the symphonies are overwhelmingly represented by performances from Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert and (less frequently) Christopher Hogwood but also include performances by Frans Bruggen and Marc Minkowski. Concertos can feature violinist Viktoria Mullova conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Malcolm Bilson on fortepiano accompanied by John Eliot Gardiner and his English Baroque Soloists. But there are also alternative performances from more mainstream musicians like Anne-Sophie Mutter, Hilary Hahn, Daniel Barenboim and Iona Brown with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields. The list of performers is quite extensive and even includes old hands like Austrian violinist Willi Boskovsky conducting most of the Mozart dances.There are a large number of representative performers with instrumental music weighted towards original instruments and vocal performances like opera necessarily more varied in the range of recording styles. There is an opera recording conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (his widely praised recording of Idomeneo) alongside one conducted by Georg Solti (his recording of Cosi Fan Tutte). There is a fairly well-chosen variability in vocal performers and performances including several recent opera recordings. The set even features Erich Kleiber's landmark 1955 Decca recording with the Vienna Philharmonic of Le Nozze di Figaro. The same holds true for chamber music recordings and solo performances. There are also a large number of recordings of historical interest that are included, as if to balance the scales a little. The number of fragments, new discoveries and musical curiosities is large enough to occupy a listener for days. There are songs of questionable taste that are a hoot to listen to (Mozart had a very playful mind), works finished by other composers and scholars, works arranged from other composers by Mozart, as well as arrangements of his own works and seven CDs of doubtful works that are almost good enough to make the cut but are still a great deal of fun to listen to. All-in-all this limited edition box set represents a lifetime of listening and helps to place Mozart's inexplicable genius into some sort of context.Many of the recordings sound as if they've been re-mastered. Sound quality is excellent but variable with the earliest historical performances a bit more compressed while newer recordings are vivid and airy with a reverberant brightness and clarity. Most of the discs are generously filled with many of them featuring timings of 85 minutes or more, the longest CDs I've ever seen. This once-in-a-lifetime collection designed for the Mozart fanatic is pricey and would have benefited from the inclusion of DVD performances. Nevertheless, despite a few quibbles about selections, there are a substantial number of superb performances. The issue of duplicates is inevitable for any Mozart collector, with approximately 30% of the recordings included here also included on the previous Mozart Complete Edition released by Philips for the 1991 commemoration. Some other duplication of instrumental and vocal recordings seems inevitable as well but the collection appears varied enough to offer a substantial number of performances that are new. There is a complete list of recordings at the DGG website. The list is too long to include here. If you love Mozart's music enough to have memorized the Kochel listing of his works, you are officially a fanatic for whom this incredible collection was designed. You may enter the world of perfect beauty created by this once-in-a-millennium musical genius and never want to leave. It is an overwhelming collection.