CD 1 - Geza Anda:
Ludvig van Beethoven:
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 1 in C major, Op. 15

Johannes Brahms:
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83

CD 2 - Bruno Leonardo Gelber:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
15 Variations with Fugue in E flat major, Op. 35, „Eroica-Variations“
6 Easy Variations for piano in G major, WoO 77
32 Variations for piano in C minor, WoO 80

CD 3 - Friedrich Gulda:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 4 in G major, Op. 58

Robert Schumann:
Concerto for piano and orchestra, Op. 54

CD 4 - Wilhelm Kempff:
Robert Schumann:
Fantasy in C major, Op. 17

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

CD 5 - Oleg Maisenberg:
Franz Schubert:
Fantasy for piano in C major, Op. 15, D 760, „Wanderer“
Sonata for Piano in A minor, Op. 143, D 784
Two Fragments for Piano in C minor, D 900 & C major, D 348

CD 6-7 - Konstantin Lifschitz:
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV 1053
Concerto No. 3 in D major, BWV 1054
Concerto No. 4 in A major, BWV 1055
Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Concerto No. 6 in F major, BWV 1057
Concerto No. 7 G minor, BWV 1058

CD 8 - Carl Seemann:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 25 in C major, K 503
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 14 in E flat major, K 449

CD 9 - Gerhard Oppitz:
Johannes Brahms:
Sonata for piano No. 3 F minor, Op. 5
Four pieces for piano, Op. 119

CD 10 - Rudolf Serkin:
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 3 C minor, Op. 37
Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 5 E flat major, Op. 73, ‘Emperor’

When the ORFEO label was established in Munich 40 years ago, few would have predicted that the record company would develop into a firmly established player in the classical music market. One of the label’s priorities in the early years was vocal music, with opera rarities top of the list and, since the mid 1980s, the re-use of historic tape recordings. Big names featured on the label’s own productions, while ORFEO also developed into a talent factory for discovering and nurturing young artists.

This Legendary Pianists 10-disc boxed set continues the series marking ORFEO’s 40th anniversary and features nine pianists in historical and modern recordings dating from the 1950s to the 2000s.

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Recordings: Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz, 18.10.1962, 09.03.1968 [Live] (CD 1); München, Bavaria Musikstudios, 14-16.12.1983 (CD 2); Wiener Konzerthaus, 21.01.1953, 04.03.1956 [Live] (CD 3); Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Funkhaus, 20.10.1956 (CD 4).