本輯以現今DG唱片最受歡迎的51位音樂家分別收錄一個錄音外(選錄自55片裝DG經典錄音)，其他音源來自於DG過去111年當中貢獻良多的其他60名藝人。本輯橫跨了相當長的時間，從唱片史初期的歌王卡羅素和作曲家理查·史特勞斯的個人歷史錄音，到最新簽約加盟DG的鋼琴家愛麗絲‧莎拉‧奧特和王羽佳等人錄音都精選在列。 內附24頁精美原文解說。

曲目:
CD1
1.ABBADO Brahms: Hungarian Dance no. 5
2.AIMARD Bach: The Art of Fugue | Cp. IX
3.AMADEUS Beethoven: String Quartet op. 131.|2
4.ANDA Mozart: Piano Concerto no. 21| 2
5.ARGERICH Chopin: Prelude in D minor
6.BARENBOIM Ravel: Pavane pour une infante
7.BARTOLI Mozart Voi che sapete
8.BLECHACZ Chopin: Prelude in G major
9.BAUMGARTNER Bach: Badinerie
10.BATTLE Faure: Requiem | Pie Jesu
11.B. MICHELANGELI Debussy: Le vent d’ouest
12.BERGANZA Bizet: Havanaise
13.BERNSTEIN Bernstein: Candide Overture
14.BOHM Mozart Requiem | Lacrimosa
15.BRUEGGERGOSMAN R. Strauss: Standchen
16.BOULEZ Stravinsky: Sacre | Danse sacrale
17.BUMBRY Falla: Cancion del amor dolido
18.CARUSO Meyerbeer O paradiso
19.CARMIGNOLA Vivaldi: Violin Concerto RV 325.| 2
20.CARRERAS Puccini: E lucevan le stelle

CD2
1.CHUNG Bizet Carmen | Les Toreadors
2.CHERKASSKY Gould: Boogie Woogie Etude
3.DOMINGO Verdi: Di quella pira
4.DON COSSACKS Anon.: Evening Bells
5.DUDAMEL Ginastera: Estancia | Danza del tngo
6.EMERSON Bartok: String Quartet no. 4|4
7.FISCHER-DIESKAU Schubert: Der Lindenbaum
8.FOURNIER Bach: Cello Suite no.1|Prelude
9.FRICSAY Verdi: Requiem | Sanctus
10.FURTWANGLER Haydn: Symphony no. 88.| 4
11.GARANCA Donizetti: II segreto per esser felici
12.GARDINER Monteverdi: Vespers| 1
13.GILELS Beethoven: Piano Sonata no. 26|3
14.GIULINI Mussorgsky: The Old Castle
15.GRIMAUD Bach: Prelude in C major BWV 846
16.GOEBEL Pachelbel: Canon
17.GULDA Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 16| 3
18.HAGEN Mozart: String Quartet no. 15| 3
19.HAHN Bach: Violin Concerto no. 2| 3

CD3
1.HOPE Mendelssohn: Auf Flugeln des Gesanges
2.HOROWITZ Scriabin: Etude in C sharp minor
3.HEIFETZ Gershwin: It Aint Necessarily So
4.HOTTER Schubert Der Leiermann
5.JAN OWITZ R. Strauss: Fruhling
6.JARVI Grieg: Peer Gynt| Morning Mood
7.JOCHUM Orif: Carmina Burana |0 Fortuna
8.KARAJAN Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
9.KEMPFF Beethoven: Fur Elise
10.KOENA Handel: Oh! had | Jubal’s lyre
11.KUBELIK Dvoiak: Symphony no. 8| 3
12.KREMER Beethoven: Violin Sonata op. 30/3.| 3
13.KLEIBER Beethoven: Symphony no. 5|1
14.LANG LANG Schumann: Traumerei
15.LASALLE Mendelssohn: String Quartet no. 1| 2
16.LUDWIG Bernstein: I Am Easily Assimilated

CD4
1.LEITNER Tchaikovsky: The Sugar-Plum Fairy
2.LEVINE Prokofiev: Symphony no. 1| 4
3.MAISKY Saint-Saens: Le Cygne
4.MAAZEL Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5| 2
5.MUTTER Brahms: Double Concerto | 2
6.McCREESH Howells: A Spotless Rose
7.MELOS Debussy: String Quartet | 2
8.MARKEVITCH Berlioz: March to the Scaffold
9.MILSTEIN Mussorgsky: Hopak
10.MINKOWSKI Rameau: Dardanus | Tambourins
11.MINTZ Kreisler: Liebesfreud
12.MRAVINSKY Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5| 3
13.NETREBKO Verdi: Sempre libera
14.OISTRACH Wieniawksi: Etude-Caprice no. 5
15.OTT Liszt: Etude d’execution transc. no. 2
16.VON OTTER Monteverdi: Con che soavita
17.OZAWA Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake | Scene
18.POGORELICH Scarlatti: Sonata in E major

CD5
1.PAVAROTTI Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima
2.PIRES Chopin: Nocturne in F sharp major
3.PERLMAN Mozart: Violin Sonata K. 304|2
4.PETIBON Mozart Deh vieni, non tardar
5.PLETNEV Liszt Gnomenreigen
6.PINNOCK Vivaldi: The Four Seasons | Spring | 1
7.POLLINI Chopin: Polonaise in A flat major
8.PREVIN H. Strauss: Capriccio | Mondscheinmusik
9.PREY Rossini: Largo al factotum
10.PRESTON Widor: Toccata
11.QUASTHOFF Wagner Lied an den Abendstern
12.K. RICHTER Bach: B minor Mass | Dona nobis
13.S. RICHTER Rachmaninov: Prelude op. 32/12
14.ROSBAUD Sibelius: Karelia | Intermezzo
15.ROSTROPOVICH Glazunov: Chant du menestrel
16.SCHLUSNUS Schumann: FrUhlingsfahrt
17.SCHNEIDERHAN Beethoven: Spring Sonata | 3
18.SEEFRIED Schubert: Lachen und Weinen

CD6
1.SEGOVIA Tarrega: Recuerdos de Ia Aihambra
2.STADER Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate | Alleluia
3.SINOPOLI Verdi: Va, pensiero, sull’ali dorate
4.STUDER Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria
5.SOLLSCHER Myers: Cavatina
6.R.STRAUSS Mozart Symphony no. 40 | 4
7.STREICH Verdi: Lo spazzacamino
8.TERFEL Vaughan Williams: The Vagabond
9.THIELEMANN Wagner: Lohengrin | Act III Prel.
10.UPSHAW Golijov Ayre | Nanni
11.VILLAZON Verdi: Questa o quella
12.J.WANG Bach: Cello Suite no. 5.| Courante
13.Y.WANG Ligeti: Piano Etude no. 10
14.WENZINGER Handel: Organ Concerto no. 4|1
15.WUNDERLICH Beethoven: Zartliche Liebe
16.WALCHA Bach: Wachet auf
17.YEPES Villa-Lobos: Prelude no.1
18.ZABALETA Saizedo: Chanson dans la nuit
19.ZUKERMAN Brahms: “F.A.E.” Scherzo
20.ZIMERMAN Schubert Impromptu in A flat major