• Carlos Kleiber – 80th Anniversary Limited Edition.
• 10DVDs at a super value price.
• Unique testimonials to one of the greatest artists in recent times, here are the Complete Operas and Concerts on DVD of Carlos Kleiber, whose utter command of the score and hypnotic hold over singers and orchestral players are clearly evident in this invaluable collection. A companion box set of his complete CD recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, in a special limited edition, is also being released to mark the 80th anniversary of his birth in 2010.
• Johann Strauss II’s Die Fledermaus from Munich in an Otto Schenk production
• Two productions of Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (from Munich, 1979 and Vienna, 1994 and Munich respectively). Legendary performances of Otto Schenk’s production, the first features a superlative cast including Gwyneth Jones, Brigitte Fassbaender. Lucia Popp and Manfred Jungwirth; the second a no less starry Felicity Lott, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Bonney and Kurt Moll.
• Orchestral concerts of Beethoven (Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7), Brahms (Symphonies Nos. 2 and 4) and Mozart (Symphonies Nos. 33 and 36) – testimonials to one of the greatest artists of recent times, includes one of his last concerts in 1996.
• Plus two New Year’s Concerts (1989 and 1992), where the incredible grace and intensity of Kleiber’s conducting style at its most alluring is on display. The disc of the 1992 concert includes a selection of 80 rare photos of Kleiber.
• Packaging: a neat 10-DVD Digistak, with full tracklisting in the accompanying booklet.