For the first time, DG brings together all of its celebrated early Lorin 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 include:
• 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'

This release is presented in a handsome box with a 44-page booklet, including a newly commissioned article by Tully Potter. The booklet also includes several historical photos of the young Lorin Maazel.

Contents:
CD 1
BERLIOZ: Romeo & Juliet, op.17
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 2
TCHAIKOVSKY: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture 
PROKOFIEV: Romeo and Juliet - Excerpts from Suites op.64 No.1 & No.2
- The Montagues and the Capulets
- Dance
- Romeo at Juliet's Grave
- Dance of the Maids from the Antilles 
- Death of Tybalt
Berliner Philharmoniker

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

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

CD 5
BRAHMS: Symphony No.3
BRAHMS: 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: Symphony No.4
SCHUBERT: Symphony No.8 'Unfinished'
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 8
MOZART: Symphony No.1
MOZART: Symphony No.28
MOZART: Symphony No.41 'Jupiter'
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion-Television Francaise

CD 9
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.6 'Pastoral'
BEETHOVEN: 12 Contredanses WoO14
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 10
RAVEL: L'Enfant et les sortilèges     
RTF National Orchestre

CD 11
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No.4
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No.5 'Reformation'
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 12
SCHUBERT: Symphony No.5
SCHUBERT: Symphony No.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: Symphony No.2
SCHUBERT: Symphony No.3        
Berliner Philharmoniker

CD 17
RAVEL: L'Heure espagnole
RTF National Orchestre

CD 18
FALLA: El amor brujo
FALLA: Dances from The Three-Cornered Hat
- Dance of the miller's wife
- Dance of the neighbours
- The miller's dance
- Final dance
Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin