From 1950 onwards Decca and the Viener Philharmoniker worked to perfect the art of recording in the city´s great concert hall and most notably in the famous Sofiensaal.The ser includes three complete symphonic cycles: Beethoven (Monteux, Kleiber, Schmidt-Isserstedt, Solti, Abbado) Bhahms- Mehta, Schuricht, Böhm, Kertész; the VPO´s only Bruckner cycle (Abbado, Solti, Stein, Mehta, Maazel, Böhm), plus classic recordings from almost every other famous conductor of the day, including Walter, Krauss, Reiner, Szell, Karajan, Kubelik, Bernstein, Kondrashin, Dohnányi, Haitink, Mackerras and Chailly. The orchestra´s standard repertoire is fully covered, including The Strauss family and lighter music in classic recordings from Knappertsbusch, Krips, Dorati and Boskovsky.