BOSTON SYMPHONY / OZAWA : RAVEL The Orchestral Works

Celebrating Maurice Ravel on his 150th anniversary, this 4-LP box set presents the composer’s orchestral works in glorious sound. During the 1970s the Boston Symphony Orchestra was an ensemble of significant refinement, having enjoyed a reputation as America’s primary ‘French’ orchestra since the days of Serge Koussevitzky and Charles Munch. Seiji Ozawa served as the BSO’s music director from 1973 until 2002, and these Ravel recordings, taped at the very beginning of the maestro’s tenure in Boston, count among the very finest achievements of their collaboration. The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and edited the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: