As a "wunderkind" he sat on Pietro Mascagni's lap, he accompanied the "Dying Swan" danced by the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, and Fritz Kreisler confessed to the young violinist that he did not know what else to teach him. “No one places Schneiderhan in the company of Kreisler, Heifetz, Huberman, Szigeti or Stern, yet he was as ‘complete’ a violinist as any of them, maybe even more so", wrote the English critic Tully Potter. Wolfgang Schneiderhan's playing was noble, balanced and sober, but at the same time intense, heartfelt and fetching. Artistic distance and immediacy of expression were not opposites for him. He attached great importance to reliable musical scores and placed himself at the service of the music – qualities that would later become important for historical performance practice. In short, a fascinating artist to be rediscovered.

For the first time, Schneiderhan's complete works on DG appear on 34 CDs in one box set. His repertoire ranges from Baroque to contemporary music, with Bach, Beethoven, Brahms and Mozart as his main focus. We can hear the violinist perform ravishing encore pieces as well as accompanying his wife, the soprano Irmgard Seefried. In addition to numerous CD premieres, the box contains four previously unreleased recordings. A 104-page booklet with texts by Tully Potter, Franz Fassbind, Markus Kettner and Wolfgang Schneiderhan as well as various photos and documents from the DG archive complete the portrait.

Tracklist:

CD 1
BACH 
Violin Concertos BWV 1041–1043 
Festival Strings Lucerne · Baumgartner
Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 BWV 1004

CD 2
BACH 
Violin Concerto BWV 1041
Collegium Musicum Zürich · Sacher
Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 
Cantata »Weichet nur, betrübte Schatten« BWV 202
Festival Strings Lucerne · Baumgartner 

CD 3–4
BACH
Violin Sonatas BWV 1014–1019

CD 5       
BEETHOVEN 
Violin Concerto 
Berliner Philharmoniker · Jochum (rec. 1962)

CD 6       
BEETHOVEN 
Violin Concerto 
Berliner Philharmoniker · Jochum (rec. 1959)

CD 7       
BEETHOVEN 
Violin Concerto 
Berliner Philharmoniker · Kempen (rec. 1953)

CD 8       
BEETHOVEN
Violin Concerto 
Berliner Philharmoniker · Furtwängler (live rec. 1953)

CD 9
BEETHOVEN
Triple Concerto 
Double Concerto

CD 10–12
BEETHOVEN 
Violin Sonatas opp. 12, 23, 24 “Spring”, 30, 47 “Kreutzer”, 96 
Seemann

CD 13–15
BEETHOVEN
Violin Sonatas opp. 12, 23, 24 “Spring”, 30, 47 “Kreutzer”, 96 
Kempff

CD 16
BRAHMS 
Violin Concerto 
MARTIN 
Violin Concerto

CD 17     
BRAHMS 
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–3 
Scherzo for Violin and Piano in C minor
Seemann

CD 18
BRAHMS
Violin Sonatas Nos. 1–3 
Wührer

CD 19
HINDEMITH 
Violin Sonata in C major 
BARTÓK
Violin Sonata No. 2 
PROKOFIEV
Violin Sonata No. 2

CD 20
MENDELSSOHN 
Violin Concerto
BRUCH
Violin Concerto No. 1

CD 21–22
MOZART 
Violin Concertos Nos. 1–5, Adagio für Violin and Orchestra K 261
Rondos for Violin and Orchestra K 269, 373 
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 23     
MOZART 
Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 
Berliner Philharmoniker · Schmidt-Isserstedt 
NDR-Sinfonieorchester · Schmidt-Isserstedt

CD 24
MOZART 
Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 
Berliner Philharmoniker · Rosbaud 
Wiener Symphoniker · Leitner  
Arias: L’amerò sarò costante | Non temer, amato bene 
Wiener Symphoniker · Leitner · Seefried 

CD 25–27
MOZART 
Violin Sonatas K 296, 301, 304–306, 376–380, 454, 481, 526

CD 28
SCHUBERT 
Sonatinas for Violin and Piano D 384, 385, 408
DVOŘÁK 
Sonatina for Violin and Piano op. 100
Klien

CD 29     
SCHUBERT
Sonata (Duo) for Violin and Piano D 574
Fantasy for Violin and Piano D 934
“Rondo brillant” D 895 
R. STRAUSS 
Violin Sonata op. 18
Klien

CD 30
SCHUBERT 
Sonata (Duo) for Violin and Piano D 574 
Sonatinas for Violin and Piano D 384, 385, 408 
Seemann

CD 31     
SCHUMANN 
Violin Sonata in A minor op. 105
FRANCK 
Violin Sonata in A major FWV 8
DEBUSSY 
Violin Sonata in G minor L 140 
STRAVINSKY
Duo concertant 

CD 32     
STRAVINSKY 
Violin Concerto in D
HENZE 
Violin Concerto No. 1

CD 33
VIVALDI 
The Four Seasons op. 8 
Concerto No. 11 for 2 Violins, Violoncello and Orchestra in D minor RV 565 (rec. 1957 & 1958)
TARTINI 
Violin Concerto in D minor D 45

CD 34
Violin Encores