CD 1
Géza Anda
Concertos pour piano de Beethoven (n° 1) et Brahms (n° 2)

CD 2
Bruno Leonard Gelber
Variations pour piano de Beethoven (Eroica, WoO 77 et 80)

CD 3
Friedrich Gulda
Concertos pour piano de Beethoven (n° 4) et Schumann (op. 54)

CD 4
Wilhelm Kempff
Fantaisie de Schumann (n° 17) et Sonate de Beethoven (n° 32)

CD 5
Oleg Maisenberg
Fantaisie-Wanderer et Sonate n° 14 de Schubert

CD 6 et CD 7
Konstantin Lifschitz
Concertos de Bach (n° 1 à 7)

CD 8
Carl Seeman
Concertos pour piano n° 14 et 15 de Mozart

CD 9
Gerhard Oppitz
Sonate n° 3 et Pièces, op. 119 de Brahms

CD 10
Rudolf Serkin
Concerto pour piano n° 3 et 5 de Beethoven

Géza Anda, piano
Bruno Leonard Gelber, piano
Friedrich Gulda, piano
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Oleg Maisenberg, piano
Konstantin Lifschitz, piano
Carl Seeman, piano
Gerhard Oppitz, piano
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Stuttgarter Kammerorchester
Konstantin Lifschitz, direction
NDR Sinfonieorchester
Wilfried Boettcher, direction
Leopold Hager, direction
Wiener Symphoniker
Joseph Keilberth, direction
Friedrich Gulda, direction
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Rafael Kubelik, direction

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.