LORIN MAAZEL - THE UNRELEASED BERLIN RECORDINGS - HD DOWNLOAD

Many musicians feared Lorin Maazel's cold authority, unyielding to compromise. He wanted everything, all the time, everywhere, from the blind obedience of his orchestras to the perfection of the administrations that managed them. His outbursts were legendary. He applied this same high standard first and foremost to himself. "Little Lorin" was already a violin virtuoso when he first conducted a professional orchestra at the age of 9, and he was 11 when Toscanini invited him to take up the baton in New York, still in short pants. Endowed with remarkable gifts, reinforced by hard work and extraordinary stamina, he would conduct over 7,000 performances in a 72-year career, across all continents, with the most prestigious ensembles. His repertoire was limitless. It was in the 1960s and 1970s, at the head of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, that he emerged as an unparalleled stylist, a magician of sound, possessing a perfect sense of line and color, coupled with the mastery of an infallible technician. It is in the archives of Berlin Radio that The Lost Recordings found these unreleased recordings from October 1969 in Saal 1 of Berlin Radio. Driven by his inspiration, Lorin Maazel reached peaks of refinement and expressive intensity. |STARTGOLD|Lorin Maazel, conductor|ENDGOLD| |STARTGOLD|Radio-Symphonie Orchester Berlin|ENDGOLD| Recorded on 29.IX.1965, *27.X.1969, Hall 1, RBB, Berlin, Germany STEREO ℗ 1965 & 1969 RBB Restored by © 2025 THE LOST RECORDINGS from the original analog tapes Ref.: TLR-2503063