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2014 is Strauss Year. Born in 1864, the 150th anniversary of his birth falls on 11th June 2014. A whole series of celebratory releases is planned, and the chief product to spearhead the campaign is a superb 33-CD set of the fifteen complete operas by Richard Strauss, from Guntram (1893) to Capriccio (1941).
In collaboration with five other partners (Decca, EMI, Sony, Deutschland Radio and the Salzburg Festival), Deutsche Grammophon has brought together a set to remember. Brimming with some of the greatest and most critically-acclaimed Strauss recordings of the last 50 years, the set also includes striking rarities. With the exception of the historical label Orfeo, no other label can offer such an enticing prospect.
The collection contains highly researched documentation including a Strauss Operas timeline and a new essay by Nigel Simeone. It is presented in luxurious, eye-catching packaging which depicts various scenes from Salome by an unidentified artist ( Kailich ) from 1927.

PACKAGING
Lid-off box
Colour-coded CD sleeves for each opera;
168-page booklet with full synopses of each opera in English, German and French of each
Strauss Operas timeline
New introduction to the operas by musicologist and writer Nigel Simeone.

REPERTOIRE HIGHLIGHTS
The Keilberth Arabella with Lisa della Casa and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
The Solti Elektra with Birgit Nilsson
Three of the classic Karl Böhm recordings: Capriccio, Daphne and Die schweigsame Frau
The Sawallisch Intermezzo with Lucia Popp
The Solti Rosenkavalier with Régine Crespin, Yvonne Minton and Helen Donath
The Sinopoli Salome with Cheryl Studer and Bryn Terfel
Bonus CD: Jessye Norman s outstanding disc of the Four Last Songs and Orchestrated Songs with Kurt Masur and the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig.

REPERTOIRE RARITIES
Strauss s second opera Feuersnot (with Gundula Janowitz and John Shirley-Quirk under Erich Leinsdorf, from Berlin 1978), a first time release;
Die Liebe der Danäe, also a first-ever release, from the first run of the original Salzburg Festival production in 1952, conducted by Strauss s friend Clemens Krauss;
Giuseppe Sinopoli s recording of Friedenstag, freshly restored to the catalogue.

Tracklisting
CD 1 2 Arabella
Della Casa/Fischer-Dieskau/Rothenberger/Malaniuk/Paskuda/Kohn/Bayerischer Staatsopernchor/Bayerisches Staatsoper/Keilberth

CD 3 4 Ariadne auf Naxos
Voigt von Otter / Dessay Heppner / Staatskapelle Dresden / Sinopoli

CD 5 6 Capriccio
Janowitz/Troyanos/Auger/Schreier/de Ridder/Fischer-Dieskau/Prey/Ridderbusch/SOBR/Böhm

CD 7 8 Daphne
Güden/Wunderlich/King/Schöffler/WS/Böhm

CD 9 10 Elektra
Nilsson/Collier/Stolze/Krause/Resnik/WP/Solti

CD 11 12 Feuersnot FIRST RELEASE
Janowitz / Shirley-Quirk / Berlin Radio Orchestra / Leinsdorf

CD 13 15 Die Frau ohne Schatten
Varady/Behrens/Runkel/Domingo/van Dam/Sumi Jo/WP/Solti

CD 16 17 Die schweigsame Frau
Hotter/Güden/Prey/Wunderlich/Alarie/Vienna State Opera Chorus and Orchestra/Böhm

CD 18 Der Friedenstag
Voigt/Dohmen/Botha/Villars/Staatsopernchor Dresden/Staatskapelle Dresden/Sinopoli

CD 19 20 Guntram
Tokody/Goldberg/Sólyom-Nagy/Gati/Bandi/Chor der Ungarischen Armee/Ungarisches Staatsorchester/Queler

CD 21 22 Die ägyptische Helena
Jones/Katsu/Hendricks/Bryant/Kenneth Jewell Chorus/Detroit SO/Dorati

CD 23 24 Intermezzo
Popp / Fischer-Dieskau / Dallapozza / Sawallisch

CD 25 27 Die Liebe der Danäe FIRST RELEASE
Kupper/Schöffler/Traxel/Szemere/Wiener Staatsopernchor/WP/Krauss

CD 28 30 Der Rosenkavalier
Crespin/Jungwirth/Minton/Donath/WP/Solti

CD 31 32 Salome
Studer/Rysanek/Terfel/Hiestermann/Bieber/Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin/Sinopoli

CD 33 4 Last Songs / Songs with Orchestra
Norman / Gewandhausorche