Collected here in one edition are the complete Decca recordings of Herbert Blomstedt: recordings made with the San Francisco Symphony and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig.

33 CDs with spined wallets, original jackets, and original programming.

Blomstedt’s advocacy of Hindemith generated many albums of the German composer’s music – demanding and receiving pinpoint precision from his players from both the Gewandhausorchestra and San Francisco Symphony, leading to a critic for High Fidelity to write the headline “Hindemith Gems from the Golden State”.
    
Herbert Blomstedt’s profound understanding of the music of Sibelius informed one of the finest recorded cycles of the Finnish composer’s symphonies in the catalogue.

Other highlights include:
- The award-winning complete Nielsen cycle with the San Francisco Symphony
- The Grammy-Award winning account of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. The Gramophone critic Ivan March declared this “the finest digital recording yet of Orff’s splendid celebration of the joys of … springtime fecundity, with more than a little help from the grape harvest of previous years”
- Definitive recordings of contemporary music such as John Harbison’s Second Symphony, commissioned to celebrate the San Francisco Symphony’s 75th anniversary
- Several revered and thought-provoking accounts of Richard Strauss’s tone poems including Ein Heldenleben, Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan and Eine Alpensinfonie
- Concerto recordings with pianists Olli Mustonen (Grieg & Chopin) and Jean-Yves Thibaudet (Mendelssohn)
- Plus many recordings that have vanished from the catalogue for many years including Blomstedt’s Bruckner symphony recordings – a highly personal Sixth, a lyrical Fourth and a Ninth coupled with the Adagio from the String Quintet all recorded in Leipzig

The recordings are accompanied by a 76pp book (En/Fr/De) with new notes by Andrew Stewart, complete recording information, index and photographs.

Two-piece capbox, 76-page booklet, 33 spined wallets, original jackets.