257 CDs, 8 DVDs, 2 softcover tracklist book and 1 hardcover-book, original jackets

The legacy of a legend: Everything Abbado ever recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca and Philips

Strictly Limited, Numbered Edition

Beautiful ‘library-style’ box presentation

Bookshelf-like inner box with albums easily accessible from two sides

112pp hardcover coffee table book (210x 297mm) with many specially contributed essays written exclusively for this edition:

A new essay journeying through Abbado’s career by Wolfgang Stähr

Reminiscences by colleagues Alfred Brendel, Yuja Wang, Evegeny Kissin, and Albrecht Mayer;

Reminiscences by Abbado’s longtime producers Christopher Alder and Sid McLauchlan.

Also included are essays by James Jolly, Julia Spinola, Jon Tolansky and Clemens Hellsberg.

Lavishly illustared with photos and with facsimiles of recording protocols from some of his most famous recordings

• Two tracklisting booklets (268 pages & 232 pages) with additional essays:

• “There’s always something new to discover in Beethoven’s symphonies” Claudio Abbado in conversation with Wolfgang Schreiber

• “Abbado and Bruckner” Nigel Simeone

• “Looking out into infinity” Oreste Bossini

• “Abbado and Mahler” Nigel Simeone

• “Abbado and Schubert’s Ninth” Julia Spinola

The eight DVDs include the first DVD release of Janáček‘s “From the House of the Dead” with the Wiener Philharmoniker