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Lorin Maazel

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The real star of the show! Another Beethoven Year! Maazel + Toscanini Philharmonic Beethoven: Complete Symphonies 2008 Live! The Greek Theatre in Tarmina, Sicily’s most famous landmark, was praised by Goethe as “the most beautiful view in the world” when he visited here. In the summer of 2008, Mazre’s Beethoven Ticles was performed here in one fell swoop and became the talk of the town. The only complete Beethoven cycle the maestro has ever recorded was with the Cleveland Orchestra on a Sony disc from the 1970s. The ensemble was tightened intensely, and the energetic Beethoven was like a Toscanini-style mass of power rising. The tempo is very fast, the counter-melody is consciously emphasized, and so on. He is a genius who is not a one-trick pony. The confidence and certainty of a master like Beethoven shows the difference between him and the other masters. The recording is a perfect multi-microphon