Last year it was the Kempff solo recordings which brightened up our winter days at the start of the new year and sold nearly 6,000 copies of the 35-CD box.

Now for the first time, comes a compact 14-CD set of his complete concerto studio recordings. They span from his 1925 recording of Beethoven’s First Concerto (the first ever to be made of that work) to his visionary 1977 performances of Mozart’s Concertos Nos. 21 and 22, now receiving their first international CD release. Unlike the solo recordings set, this edition is non-limited.

Kempff traversed the set of Beethoven Concertos three times in the studio (only No.2 was not set down during the shellac era); all those performances are included in this set. There’s more Mozart, Brahms and Schumann. In addition, 1950s Decca recordings of two Mozart concertos, the Liszt and Schumann concertos are also featured.

Artists

Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

Berliner Philharmoniker, Dresdner Philharmonie, SOBR, Staatskapelle Dresden, London Symphony Orchestra, Kapelle der Staatsoper, Berlin, Orchester des Deutschen Opernhauses Berlin, Ferdinand Leitner, Paul van Kempen, Bernhard Klee, Franz Konwitschny, Karl Münchinger, Rafael Kubelik, Anatole Fistoulari, Peter Raabe, Josef Krips