Lorin Maazel - Complete Warner Classics Edition [18CD Clamshell]

Format: 18 CD Clamshell 18 CD set
ICPN: 5026854927800
Release Date: 02 Oct 2026
Genre: Classical

Lorin Maazel (1930-2014) was the most cosmopolitan conductor of his generation, fluent in five languages, a brilliant mathematician and a musician with the ears of a lynx, the score-reading skills of a hawk, the creative gift of a composer, the stylistic sense of a haute couture designer and the polish of an international diplomat.
The variety of orchestras represented here – German, French, British, American and Italian – is just one testament to Lorin Maazel’s ability to adapt his talents to all manner of repertoire and situations. For once, the term ‘class act’ is appropriate when considering his multifaceted career.

Tracklisting’s key points
This 18-CD set captures the brilliant versatility and stylistic breadth of Lorin Maazel across his complete recordings in the Warner Classics, Erato and Nonesuch catalogs. Spanning four decades of recording activity from 1962 to 2002, this collection highlights Maazel’s unique ability to draw exceptionally precise, vivid playing from the world's finest orchestras.
●    Features monumental interpretations of late-Romantic symphonic cornerstones, including Bruckner’s Seventh and Eighth Symphonies with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and nearly iconic early recordings of Richard Strauss and Debussy & Ravel with the Philharmonia.
●    Collaborations with legendary soloists such as Sviatoslav Richter (Brahms, Bartók, and Prokofiev), Emil Gilels (Tchaikovsky’s complete piano concertos), and Frank Peter Zimmermann (Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev violin concertos).
●    Includes landmark complete opera recordings, notably Verdi’s Otello from the soundtrack of Franco Zeffirelli’s acclaimed film, Bizet’s Carmen, both featuring Plácido Domingo, and Massenet’s Thaïs staring Berverly Sills, where Maazel additionally showcases his own talents as a solo violinist.
●    Showcases the historic world-premiere recording on Nonesuch of John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls (commissioned to honor the victims of the September 11 attacks) with the New York Philharmonic, which swept three Grammy Awards in 2005.

LORIN MAAZEL
THE COMPLETE WARNER EDITION

CD 1    BRUCKNER Symphony No. 7 BP
CD 2    BRUCKNER Symphony No. 8 BP
CD 3    BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2 Richter, OP
CD 4-5    TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concertos Nos. 1-3 Gilels, NPO
CD 5    TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto | PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto No. 1 Zimmermann, BP
CD 6    DVOŘÁK Slavonic Dances, Opp. 46 & 72 BP
CD 7    DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune | MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Pictures at an Exhibition PO
CD 8    R. STRAUSS Also sprach Zarathustra · Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche PO
CD 9    RAVEL Boléro · Pavane pour une infante défunte · Alborada del gracioso · La Valse NPO
CD 10    RAVEL Piano Concertos Collard, ONF
CD 11    BARTÓK Piano Concerto No. 2 OP · PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 5 LSO · Richter
CD 12    JOHN ADAMS On the Transmigration of Souls NYP
CD 13-14    VERDI Otello Domingo, Ricciarelli, Díaz, Scala
CD 15-16    BIZET Carmen Migenes, Domingo, Raimondi, Esham, ONF
CD 17-18    MASSENET Thaïs Sills, Milnes, Gedda, NPO

Berliner Philharmoniker (BP) | London Symphony Orchestra (LSO)
New Philharmonia Orchestra (NPO) | New York Philharmonic (NYP)
Orchestre National de France (ONF) | Orchestre de Paris (OP)
Philharmonia Orchestra (PO) | Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano (Scala)