34:T751,

Artist: Sir Georg Solti
Title: Mozart – The Operas
Year Of Release: 2012
Label: Decca
Genre: Classical
Total Time: 15 CD

Sir Georg Solti – Mozart – The Operas – 2012

October 21, 2012 marks Sir Georg Solti's centenary and Decca is celebrating this with several important reissues.

Sir Georg was an exclusive Decca artist for 50 years.

In 1947 he signed his first contract with Decca – as a pianist and that same year he made his first record as a conductor (with the Zurich Tonhalle in Beethovens Egmont Overture). His last public concerts took place just a few weeks before his death in 1997 and were with the Zurich Tonhalle.

Solti was a musician with extraordinarily wide musical interests and sympathies and he was without doubt one of the most important opera conductors of the second half of the twentieth century. His legacy of recordings is dominated by opera and his recording of Wagners Der Ring des Nibelungen – the first ever complete studio recording – has been described as the greatest recording of all time [BBC Music Magazine, January 2012]

CD 1-3
Così fan tutte

CD 4-6
Don Giovanni

CD 7-8
Die Entführung aus dem Serail

CD 9-11
Le nozze di Figaro

CD 12-14
Die Zauberflote

CD 15 – bonus CD – Solti as pianist in Mozart
Violin Sonata No.32 in B flat major, K454
with Georg Kulenkampf (recorded in 1948)

Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor, K478
with Members of the Melos Quartet (recorded in 1984)

Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K466
with the English Chamber Orchestra (recorded in 1989)