George Szell - the Complete Columbia Album Collection

106 CD box set with hard cover bound book (144 pages) in rigid box (Lift-off lid box)

"In the heyday of George Szell’s tenure as its chief conductor," declared Gramophone, "The Cleveland Orchestra had few if any peers among the world’s great orchestras."

Coinciding with the orchestra’s centenary in 2018, Sony Classical is excited to announce one of the most ambitious reissue projects of recent times, a comprehensive collection of the Clevelanders’ recordings made under the baton of their iconic fourth music director. These span the period between 1947 – a year after Szell (born in Budapest in 1897) inherited a fine provincial orchestra from Erich Leinsdorf and began transforming it into the elite ensemble it remains to this day – and 1969, a year before his sudden death shocked the musical world. Szell’s dream was to create an ensemble that combined "the Americans’ purity and beauty of sound and their virtuosity of execution with the European sense of tradition, warmth of expression and sense of style," in the words of his biographer Michael Charry. That he fulfilled that dream is amply documented in the huge discography that fills Sony’s new mega-box of 106 CDs, "recordings that are prized for their stylistic rightness, clarity of structure, rhythmic tension, and transparency of texture"
(The New Yorker).

DISC 1: Dvo?ák: Slavonic Dances · Smetana: String Quartet No. 1
DISC 2: Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 · Schumann: Symphony No. 4
DISC 3: Mozart: Symphony No. 39 · Haydn: Symphony No. 92 “Oxford”
DISC 4: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 “Italian” · Hindemith · Strauss
DISC 5: Dvo?ák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
DISC 6: Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 · Weber I Casadesus
DISC 7: Schumann: Symphony No. 2
DISC 8: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 I Serkin
DISC 9: Bach · Handel · Tartini I Szigeti · Francescatti (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 10: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 24 & 26 I Casadesus (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 11: Dvo?ák: Piano Concerto · Tchaikovsky I Firkušný · Rose (New York Philharmonic)
DISC 12: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 · Schubert: Symphony No. 8
DISC 13: Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88 & 104 “London”
DISC 14: Dvo?ák: Slavonic Dances
DISC 15: Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 “Jupiter”
DISC 16: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 10 & 12 I Casadesus (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 17: Wagner: Orchestral Highlights from the “Ring”
DISC 18: Rachmaninoff · Franck · Delius I Fleisher
DISC 19: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 25 I Serkin (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 20: Brahms: Symphony No. 1
DISC 21: Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 “Eroica”
DISC 22: Schubert: Symphony No. 9 “The Great”
DISC 23: Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel · Don Juan · Tod und Verklärung
DISC 24: Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 97 & 99
DISC 25: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 18 & 20 I Casadesus (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 26: Tchaikovsky · Borodin · Rimsky-Korsakov · Mussorgsky
DISC 27: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 I Fleisher
DISC 28: Merry Overtures
DISC 29: Dvo?ák: Symphony No. 8
DISC 30: Walton: Partita · Mahler: Symphony No. 10
DISC 31: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 · Mozart I Fleisher
DISC 32: Dvo?ák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World”
DISC 33: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
DISC 34: Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
DISC 35: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5
DISC 36: Grieg?Schumann: Piano Concertos I Fleisher
DISC 37: Dvo?ák: Symphony No. 7
DISC 38: Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 35 “Haffner”, 39 & 40
DISC 39: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 22 & 23 I Casadesus (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 40-41: Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1–4
DISC 42: Strauss: Don Quixote I Fournier
DISC 43: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 I Fleisher
DISC 44: Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 I Fleisher
DISC 45: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5“Emperor” I Fleisher
DISC 46-47: Beethoven: Symphonies No. 9 “Choral” & No. 8
DISC 48: Stravinsky: L’Oiseau de feu · Walton: Symphony No. 2
DISC 49: Schubert: Symphony No. 8 · Haydn: Symphony No. 92
DISC 50: Mozart: Clarinet Concerto · Strauss I Marcellus
DISC 51: Wagner: Preludes
DISC 52: Mendelssohn · Bruch: Violin Concertos I Francescatti (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 53: Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral”
DISC 54: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 I Fleisher
DISC 55: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 26 & 27 I Casadesus (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 56: Bartók?Prokofiev: Piano Concertos I Serkin (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 57: Johann Strauss II & Josef Strauss
DISC 58: Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 “Italian” · Overtures
DISC 59: Debussy: La Mer · Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé · Pavane
DISC 60: Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 · Leonore No. 3
DISC 61: Smetana: The Moldau · Dvo?ák: Slavonic Dances
DISC 62: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition ? Liadov
DISC 63: Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 28 & 33 · Divertimento No. 2
DISC 64: Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1, 3 & 5 I Stern (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 65: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 19 & 20 I Serkin (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)
DISC 66: Mozart: Sinfonia concertante · Exsultate, jubilate
DISC 67: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 · Mozart: Symphony No. 41
DISC 68: Strauss: Sinfonia domestica
DISC 69: Barber: Piano Concerto · Schuman I Browning · Rose
DISC 70: Brahms: Symphony No. 3 · Haydn Variations
DISC 71: Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
DISC 72: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 21 & 24 I Casadesus
DISC 73: Dvo?ák: Slavonic Dances
DISC 74: Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra · Jana?ek: Sinfonietta
DISC 75: Mahler: Symphony No. 4 I Raskin
DISC 76: Bizet: L’Arlésienne Suite No. 1 · Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
DISC 77: Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
DISC 78: Wagner: Preludes
DISC 79: Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 I Graffman
DISC 80: Beethoven: Overtures
DISC 81-83: Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 & 4 · Overtures
DISC 84: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 I Serkin
DISC 85: Mendelssohn · Schubert: Incidental Music
DISC 86: Rossini: Overtures
DISC 87: Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 I Serkin
DISC 88: Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93 & 94 “Surprise”
DISC 89: Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis · Walton
DISC 90: Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 15 & 17 I Casadesus
DISC 91: Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik · Posthorn Serenade
DISC 92: Wagner: Great Orchestral Highlights from the “Ring”
DISC 93: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 I Graffman
DISC 94Kodaly: Háry János Suite · Prokofiev
DISC 95-96: Bruckner: Symphony No. 8
DISC 97: Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 95 & 96 “The Miracle”
DISC 98: Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 97 & 98
DISC 99: Mahler: Symphony No. 6 “Tragic”
DISC 100: Smetana: The Moldau · From Bohemia’s Fields and Groves (New York Philharmonic)
DISC 101: Wagner · Weber: Overtures (New York Philharmonic)
DISC 102: Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral” (New York Philharmonic)
DISC 103: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 I Horowitz (New York Philharmonic)
DISC 104: Mozart: Piano Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 I Budapest String Quartet
DISC 105: Mozart: Violin Sonatas K 296, 301, 304 & 376 I Druian
DISC 106: Christmas Melodies & Interviews