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... |
RAVEL
Bolero / Rapsodie Espagnole / la Valse / etc (rec 1984) L'Orchestre National de France, Lorin Maazel [ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] "La valse is high powered with a mannered ending, but I enjoyed the rather sultry performance of the Rapsodie espagnole, while the Alborada is certainly brilliant." (Gramophone) |
Giuseppe V
Falstaff Lorin Maazel Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 25/Sep/2009 ] |
Hector Ber
Symphonie fantastique, Klavierkonzert No. 1 Till Eulenspiegel Lorin Maazel, Géza Anda, Wiener Philhamoniker [ ORFEO / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphony No 9 'Choral' Lucia Popp (soprano) Jon Vickers (tenor) Elena Obraztsova (mezzo) Martti Talvela (bass) The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus. Lorin Maazel [ Sony Classic Library / CD - released 17/Sep/2005 ] Lorin Maazel conducts the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and a dream quartet of soloists in this epic performance of Beethoven's ultimate symphonic testament. |
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony and other works Lynn Harrell (cello) / The Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Thrilling highly-charged accounts of some of Tchaikovsky's darkest music. Harrell's elegant Rococo Variations provides welcome light at the end of the tunnel." (BBC Music Five Stars) |
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 |
GERSHWIN
Porgy and Bess (Complete opera) Willard White, Leona Mitchell, McHenry Boatwright / The Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus / Lorin Maazel [ Decca Originals / 3 CD - released 1/Oct/2007 ] "This superb recording established the work's formidable status beyond question...Maazel includes the complete text...some half hour of virtually unknown music" The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
PROKOFIEV / RAVEL
Peter and the Wolf / L'Enfant Et Les Sortileges The Nederlands Dans Theater / Lorin Maazel / The Royal Ballet School / Paul Murphy [ Arthaus Musik / RM Associates / DVD - released 23/Jul/2004 ] G :- Regions 2 + 5 - Widescreen 16:9 & Regular 1.33:1 / 4:3 - PCM Stereo - Colour - 82 Minutes (total) - PAL Prokofiev's classic and Ravel's fairy tale ballet are different in content but both are thoroughly recommended to all. Starring The... |
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 |
MAHLER
Symphonies Nos. 7 - 9 Soloists / Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Signum Philharmonia Series / 6 CD Box Set - released 25/Aug/2015 ] The final box set of six discs in Signum's series of Mahler's Symphonies, performed live by Lorin Maazel and the Philharmonia. |
MAHLER
Symphony No.4, 5 & 6 Philharmonia Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ Signum Classics / CD - released 3/Jun/2014 ] |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Lorin Maazel Conducts Sibelius [5 CD set] Julian Rachlin (violin) / Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 4/Apr/2011 ] |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No 2 Little Russian (with Rimsky-Korsakov: Symphony No. 2 Op. 9 Antar) Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra / Lorin Maazel [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2003 ] Lorin Maazel, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, is one of today's most highly acclaimed and eagerly sought conductors. |
MAHLER
Symphonies Nos 1, 2 "Resurrection" & 3 Sally Matthews (soprano) Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Lorin Maazel [ Signum Philharmonia Series / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2014 ] "What a ride it's been; a wilful First, a splendid Second and now an incandescent Third. Make no mistake, for all his faults - perceived or otherwise - this octogenarian conductor is a Mahlerian of considerable consequence" (MusicWeb) |
RACHMANINOV
Piano Concerto 2 & 3 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini / Piano Sonata No. 2 Sylvia McNair (soprano) Lang Lang (piano) Horacio Gutierrez (piano) / Pittsburgh Symphony, Lorin Maazel / Baltimore Symphony, David Zinman [ Telarc Everybody's Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2008 ] "...he turns on the fireworks with a vengence..." - Stereo Review |
BRUCKNER
Symphonies 0-9 (complete) Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Lorin Maazel [ BR Klassik / 11 CD - released 2/Mar/2011 ] In a spectacular concert cycle from January to March 1999, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the direction of Lorin Maazel played the complete symphonies of Bruckner in Munich's Philharmonie in the Gasteig. Maazel had at his... |
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
The Best of Tchaikovsky (Incls 'Serenade in C for Strings' Waltz & Capriccio Italien) Various artists, including Ernest Ansermet, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Antal Dorati, Henry Lewis, Lorin Maazel, Sir Neville Marriner [ Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 6/Feb/1997 ] All the very best of Tchaikovsky at a super special price. |
Vienna Philharmonic. Lorin Maazel
Strauss, Richard - Also sprach Zarathustra, Sinfonia Domestica [ DG Masters / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] Classic recordings now at mid-price |