A 50-CD set of legendary recordings celebrating the world-renowned Decca Sound. Classic-status pioneering stereo recordings from the past 60 years and starring a galaxy of internationally-acclaimed artistic talent. A 200-page booklet documents the development of stereo recording as it developed in the 1950s through to modern digital recordings.PACKAGING: • 50CD Cube ‘Hinged lid’ box • Sleeves presented in original jackets • 200-page booklet featuring the evolution of classical recordings from stereo to digital. Plus full recording information for each disc and numerous rare photos from recording sessions. CONTENTS CD1 Ansermet - Falla: El Sombrero De Tres Picos ・ Debussy: Images CD2 Argenta - España / Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto CD3 Ashkenazy - Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 3 ・ Piano Sonata 2 CD4 Ashkenazy - Sibelius Symphony No. 1 / Mussorgsky: Pictures At An Exhibition CD5 Bartoli - Italian Songs CD6 Bell - Barber & Walton Violin Concertos CD7 Blomstedt - R. Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie CD8 Böhm – Bruckner Symphony No. 4 CD9 Boskovsky - New Year's Day Concert 1979 CD10 Britten - War Requiem CD11 Chailly - Messiaen: Tarungalîla-symphonie CD12 Chung - Bruch & Mendelssohn Violin Concertos CD13 Curzon - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 27 CD14 Dohnányi - Schoenberg, Berg & Webern CD15 Dorati - Stravinsky: L'Oiseau De Feu / Le Sacre Du Printemps CD16 Dutoit - Ravel: Ma Mère L'Oye ・ Boléro CD17 Fleming - Opera Scenes CD18 Freire - Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1 / Schumann: Carnaval CD19 Haitink - Shostakovich Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9 CD20 Hogwood - Purcell: Dido And Aeneas CD21 Jansen - Britten & Beethoven Violin Concertos CD22 Karajan - Holst: The Planets CD23 Katchen - Bartók & Prokofiev Piano Concerto 3 ・ Ravel Piano Concerto CD24 Kertész – Dvořak Symphonies Nos. 8&9 CD25 Kings College Choir & St John's College Choir - Haydn: Nelson Mass & Paukenmesse CD26 Larrocha - Granados: Goyescas ・ Falla: Noches En Los Jardines De España CD27 Lemper - Berlin Cabaret Songs CD28 Lupu - Beethoven: Moonlight, Pathétique & Waldstein Sonatas CD29 Maag - Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream ・ Symphony 3 CD30 Maazel - Respighi: Feste Romane ・ Pini Di Roma ・ Rimsky-Korsakov CD31 Mackerras - Janáček: Sinfonietta, Taras Bulba ・ The Cunning Little Vixen Suite CD32 Marriner - Tchaikovsky: Serenade For Strings ・ Souvenir De Florence CD33 Martinon - Ibert: Divertissement / Borodin 2 CD34 Mehta - Varèse ・ Ives 2 CD35 Monteux - Ravel: Daphnis Et Chloé / Elgar: Enigma Variations CD36 Münchinger - Bach: Magnificat /Cantatas 10 & 140 CD37 Nilsson ・ Solti - Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen - Great Scenes CD38 Carreras ・ Domingo ・Pavarotti - In Concert 1990 CD39 Pavarotti - Puccini: Turandot - Highlights CD40 Pickett - Susato: Dansereye CD41 Rogé - Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 2, 4 & 5 CD42 Rousset - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater CD43 Schiff - Bach: Goldberg Variations CD44 Solti - Romantic Russia / Suppé 4 Overtures CD45 Solti - Mahler Symphony No. 8 CD46 Sutherland ・ Horne ・ Pavarotti - Live From Lincoln Center CD47 Takács Quartet - Beethoven: Quartets Opp. 95, 130 & 133 CD48 Tebaldi ・ Del Monaco - Puccini: La Fanciulla Del West - Highlights CD49 Wiener Oktett - Mendelssohn: Octet / Beethoven: Septet CD50 Winchester ・ Terfel - Walton: Belshazzar's Feast