Legendary conductor’s complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca, on 356 discs.

A soon to be released box set containing everything that Herbert Von Karajan recorded for Deutsche Grammophon and Decca has broken records. Containing 330 CDs, 24 DVDs, 2 Blu-rays, 4 tracklist booklets and one hardcover book, it has set the bar for the largest box set ever issued as certified by the Guinness Book of World Records. Only 2500 of these box sets will be produced, with each white and gold box individually numbered.

Almost thirty years after his death, many of Karajan’s recordings retain their cult status. The conductor himself was renowned for his commanding presence, his astonishing breadth of repertoire and, most of all, for his formidable musical genius. Karajan became chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 1955, a position that he held until his death in 1989.

His relationship with Deutsche Grammophon was an unquestionably fruitful one – the conductor oversaw the label’s first digital recording (Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte in 1980) and its first mass-produced CD (Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie in 1982). Their first recording together was in 1939, the overture to Die Zauberflöte with the Berlin Staatskapelle – their...