Alfred Brendel, one of the world's most famous and revered pianists, recently retired from the concert stage. With a career that spanned almost 60 years, Brendel has played a large portion of the piano solo, chamber and concerto repertoire in the world's great musical capitals. On January 5, 2011, Brendel will celebrate his 80th birthday. Decca is proud to re-issue, at an exceptional budget price, two box sets devoted to the core of Brendel's recital repertoire: Beethoven and Schubert. The Schubert set is a re-issue of Brendel's DIGITAL recordings of the composer's major piano works recorded 1987-88. A number of sonatas, Impormptus, the ever-famous Moments Musicaux and the "Wanderer" Fantasy are all included. CD 1 Sonata in D, D850 + Sonata in A minor, D784 CD 2 Sonata in A, D859 + Hungarian melody, D817 + 16 Deutsche Tänze, D783 + Allegretto in C minor, D915 CD 3 Sonata in C minor, D958 + 6 Moments musicaux, D780 CD 4 Sonata in A minor, D845 + 3 Klavierstücke, D946 CD 5 4 Impromptus, D899 + 4 Impromptus, D935 CD 6 Sonata in G, D894 + Sonata in C, D840 CD 7 Sonata in B flat, D960 + Fantasia in C, D760 "Wanderer"