GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 1983) BLU-RAY Vienna State Opera / Eva Marton, José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli / Lorin Maazel (conductor) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances Blu-ray BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2015 ] The Hungarian soprano Eva Marton brought to the title role a voice of gleaming metal in which one senses the beautiful woman lying in wait to defeat her opponent but is also aware of her fears of man in general. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
VerdI Aida (complete opera recorded in 1986) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti, Ghena Dimitrova, Leo Nucci / Lorin Maazel (conductor) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Jul/2015 ] "An opera for Cairo!", Verdi is said to have exclaimed. He would certainly have been delighted with this magnificent production. It was a triumphant success when it opened at la Scala in December 1985 |
WAGNER / GERSHWIN / DVORAK
The Pyongyang Concert [recorded in North Korea in 2008] BLU-RAY New York Philharmonic, Lorin Maazel [ EuroArts Medici Arts BLU_RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Sep/2011 ] "For at least 90 minutes in a theatre in Pyongyang it was possible … to believe that 55 years of cold-war hostility were coming to an end." James Miles, The Economist |
RODRIGO / LEONCAVALLO / LISZT / TOSTI / OFFENBACH / ROSSINI / etc
Andrea Bocelli - Sentimento Andrea Bocelli (tenor) London Symphony Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ Philips / CD - released 12/Nov/2002 ] Beautiful, passionate arias and songs in the classical repertory. A very romantic collection of music |
RICHARD STRAUSS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Strauss, (R.): Sinfonia Domestica / Tod und Verklarung Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ RCA Victor Red Seal / CD - released 1/Oct/2014 ] Very rare and hard to find! |
RICHARD WAGNER
Classic Richard Wagner [incls 'The Ring Without Words'] Susan Dunn, Peter Meven, Klaus Konig / Berlin Philharmonic, Pittsburgh Symphony, Lorin Maazel / Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesús López-Cobos [ Concord / Telarc / 3 CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] The best selling "The Ring Without Words" is a unique synthesis of orchestral music from Wagner's Ring cycle. Arranged by Lorin Maazel, this recording includes all the standard Ring orchestral excerpts such as the Ride of the Valkyries |
ANTON BRUCKNER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bruckner: Symphony No 8 Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel (conductor) [ EMI Classics / CD - released 19/Mar/1997 ] Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Romei and Juliet / Nutcracker Suite Cleveland Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2007 ] |
BERLIOZ
Symphonie Fantastique Cleveland Orchestra Lorin Maazel, conductor [ Telarc Records / CD - released 22/Sep/2003 ] Telarc Classics - Top quality recordings at mid-price. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette / Harold in Italy / Roman Carnival Overture The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] Shakespeare and Byron meet for a double-CD of Maazel's recordings of two of Berlioz's symphonies for Decca, coupled with the Roman Carnival Overture, included on an Overtures disc for Decca. Back on CD after a long absence, the 1972 Vienna Roméo... |
MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Night on Bald Mountain The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 14/Sep/2007 ] "The sound is among the most opulent I have ever heard...'Night on Bald Mountain' is as good as they come...it is highly recommended." -Sensible Sound |
OTTORINI RESPIGHI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Respighi: Roman Festivals / Pines of Rome (with music of Rimsky-Korsakov) The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Decca Legends / CD - released 2/Jul/2000 ] "There really is no point in making comparisons here. Maazel's account of Roman festivals is something of a revelation - by far the finest recordings this work has ever received." Gramophone |
NICOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade & other works (with Prokofiev - Symphony No 5) The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Jan/2014 ] 'Maazel draws characteristically brilliant playing from the Cleveland Orchestra ... a conclusion relentless in its power ... superb playing and powerfully brilliant recording.' (Prokofiev) Gramophone |
ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY
Lyric Symphony Op.18 Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Julia Varady / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] 'This is, in short, a very fine performance and recording of a work that is looking more and more like a crucial document of what one might term 'pre-modernism'. Gramophone, June 1987 |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos 1 & 2 Emil Gilels (piano) / New Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 15/Feb/2018 ] "Any Gilels record is an event of the first magnitude," wrote Gramophone when these Tchaikovsky recordings originally appeared in 1973. In its words the Odessa-born pianist, "a stupendous lion of the keyboard", offered "artistry of the highest... |
PROKOFIEV
Complete Music For Violin (Includes Violin sonatas & Cinq Malodies, Op. 35b) Frank Peter Zimmerman (violin), Alexander Lonquich (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker under Lorin Maazel / Philharmonia Orchestra under Mariss Jansons [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 28/Mar/2006 ] Prokofiev did not play the violin himself. Nevertheless he composed a substantial amount of varied works for this instrument: orchestral and chamber music. |
Bartók; Mo
Konzert für Violine und Orchester No. 2 Sz 112; Erste Lodron'sche Nachtmusik: Marsch KV 248, Divertimento KV 247 Gerhart Hetzel; Wiener Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel; Wiener Kammerensemble [ ORFEO / CD - released 28/Jul/2002 ] |
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Aromatherapy No 5 - The Heart of Tchaikovsky Herbert von Karajan, Neville Marriner, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lorin Maazel [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 21/Jun/2001 ] A unique CD collection of music for relaxation |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Horacio Guiterrez (piano) Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Lorin Maazel [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] "...he turns on the fireworks with a vengence..."-Stereo Review |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss, (R.): Burleske / Duet-Concertino / Oboe Concerto / le Bourgeois Gentilhomme / etc Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Dimitri Ashkenazy (clarinet) Gordon Hunt (oboe) / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Lorin Maazel, etc [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] Relative rarities among his output are Richard Strauss's concertos, many written later in his life. This collection brings together works for oboe, clarinet and bassoon (the Duet Concertino) and the scintillating Burleske for piano and orchestra. In... |