All the discs have been individually checked and are in very good condition. The box-set traces the history of Archiv from 1947, when the first recordings were made (Helmut Walcha playing Bach organ works), to a bonus CD featuring selections from the new 2013 albums mentioned above. A complete overview is appended.
In between comes a sequence of albums several of which are new to CD from the great names of the label, from Walcha, Wenzinger and Safford Cape, through Karl Richter, Nikolas Harnoncourt and Sir Charles Mackerras, on to David Munrow, Ralph Kirkpatrick, Jurgen Jurgens, to Reinhard Goebel, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Trevor Pinnock, Paul McCreesh, Marc Minkowski, Anne Sofie von Otter, Magdalena Kozená and many, many more. The list of artists who have recorded for Archiv is truly astounding. BACH Werke für Orgel (Walcha).Cd 4: Gregorianische Gesänge Mönche der Erzabtei St. Cd 5: DE LA HALLE: Le Jeu de Robin et Marion, Rondeaux, 17 Dances (Cape).
Cd 8: GIBBONS / MORLEY: Anthems, Madrigals, Fantasies (Deller / Wenzinger). Cd 13: PRAETORIUS: Dances from Terpsichore (Neumeyer).
Cd 14: MOURET / DELALANDE: Symphonies et Fanfares (Scherbaum / Kuentz). Cd 15: MUFFAT / BIBER: Konzertmusik (Harnoncourt).
Cd 16: TELEMANN: Musique de Table (Wenzinger). Cd 18-19: HANDEL: Israel in Egypt (Mackerras).
Cd 21: Canti Amorosi (Rogers / Jürgens). Cd 22: OCKEGHEM: Missa pro defunctis (Bruno Turner). Cd 23: CORELLI: Violin-Sonaten op. Cd 24: Music of the Gothic Era (Munrow).Cd 25: RAMEAU: Werke für Cembalo (Gilbert). Cd 26: ZELENKA: Werke für Orchester (Camerata Bern). Cd 28: VIVALDI: Die Vier Jahreszeiten (Pinnock). Cd 29: TELEMANN: Wassermusik (Goebel).
BACH: Messe in h-moll (Gardiner). Cd 32: PALESTRINA : Missa Papae Marcelli (Preston). Cd 33: MOZART: Konzerte für Klavier (Bilson / Gardiner).Cd 34-35: MONTEVERDI: Marienvesper (1610) (Gardiner). Cd 36: HAYDN: Symphonien 39, 41, 48 & 65 (Pinnock). Cd 37: BEETHOVEN: Symphonien 5 & 6 (Gardiner). Cd 38: REBEL: Les Elémens (Goebel).
Cd 39-40: HANDEL: La Resurrezione (Minkowski). GABRIELI: Music for San Rocco (McCreesh). Cd 42-43: HANDEL: Messiah (McCreesh). Cd 44: LAMENTI (von Otter).Cd 45: A Flemish Feast (Piffaro). Cd 46: DESPREZ: Motetten (Orlando Consort). Cd 47: HANDEL: Italienische Kantaten (Kozená). Cd 48: RAMEAU: Une symphonie imaginaire (Minkowski).
Cd 49: MYSLIVECEK: Symphonien (Concerto Köln). Cd 50: VIVALDI: Konzerte für 2 Violinen (Carmignola / Mullova). Cd 51-53: HANDEL: Alcina (Curtis). Cd 54: VICTORIA: Motets and Hymns (Ensemble Plus Ultra). Cd 55: NEW FROM ARCHIV (Prohaska / Tenebrae / Carmignola).
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