Willi Boskovsky Complete Decca Recordings - Limited Deluxe Edition Boxset CD

50CD + 2DVD

Boskovsky's performances (as violinist and as conductor) of the lighter side of Viennese music became a byword for the elegant and sophisticated charm which it demands.  

With dapper showmanship and typically Viennese bonhomie, Boskovsky did more to embed the New Year's Day Concert tradition into our consciousness than any other conductor.  He conducted the New Year's Day concerts no less than 25 times and his 1975 and 1979 concerts are part of recording history – in 1975, Decca became the first record company invited to record the Wiener Philharmoniker's New Year's Day Concert 'live', while the 1979 concert became Decca's first digital recording (and in fact, it was the first European commercial digital recording ever made).

Timed perfectly for the New Year celabrations, the fruits of Decca's partnership with the musicians of Vienna are on full display in Decca's new 50-CD + 2-DVD set.

"This is an enchanting record … performed by musicians who have loved this music almost from birth. […] The recording quality … is nothing less than breathtaking … and one is astounded still more by the Decca engineers' combination of clarity, richness and immediacy even in the biggest ensembles" - Gramophone on "Overtures of Old Vienna

"The golden age of Viennese music-making flares gloriously into life again...The result is exquisite. Perfection of tone and phrasing … polish and subtlety and rare beauty of tone...The performance cannot be too highly recommended" - Gramophone, on the Mendelssohn & Schubert Octets