Product Review

For the first time, DG brings together all of its celebrated early Maazel recordings! Iconic stuff in a handsome, limited-edition box, offered at an attractive price, with gorgeous original cover art, that for the most part has not been replicated in 50 years.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EDITION
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 2-6 & 8 Unfinished
Romeo & Juliet by Berlioz, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf & Britten: Young Person s Guide to the Orchestra
Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 1, 28 & 41 Jupiter
Ravel operas: L'Enfant et les sortilèges and L'Heure espagnole

PACKAGING
A handsome box with a lift-off upper lid

44-page booklet, with a newly commissioned article by Tully Potter

Several historical photos of the young Lorin Maazel

REPERTOIRE
LORIN MAAZEL: The Complete Early Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

CD 1:BERLIOZ: Romeo & Juliet, Dramatic Symphony Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 2: TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet, Excerpts from Suites op. 64 Nos. 1 & 2
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 3: STRAVINSKY: Firebird Suite; Le Chant du rossignol
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

CD 4: BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 5; The Consecration of the House
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 5: BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3; Tragic Overture
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 6: RESPIGHI: Pini di Roma
MUSSORGSKY: Night on the Bare Mountain
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio espagnol
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 7: SCHUBERT: Symphonies No. 4 & No. 8 "Unfinished"
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 8: MOZART: Symphonies No. 1, No. 28 & No. 41 Jupiter
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise

CD 9: BEETHOVEN: Symphonies No. 6 Pastoral ; 12 Contredanses
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 10:RAVEL: L'Enfant et les sortilèges
R.T.F. National Orchestre

CD 11: MENDELSSOHN: Symphonies No. 4 & No. 5 "Reformation"
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 12: SCHUBERT: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 13: FRANCK: Symphony in D minor
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

CD 14: BRITTEN: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
PROKOFIEV: Peter and the Wolf
French National Orchestra

CD 15: TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 16: SCHUBERT: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 17: RAVEL: L'Heure espagnole
R.T.F. National Orchestre

CD 18: FALLA: El amor brujo; Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin