Masur Eurodisc

Kurt Masur led the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra in two recordings of the complete symphonies of Felix Mendelssohn - the first for Eurodisc in the early '70s when he was a beardless young man and the second for Teldec in the late '80s and early '90s when he was a fully bearded mature man. Although the first set was only intermittently available outside of Europe, it was considered at the time one of the great Mendelssohn cycles: brilliantly colorful, ardently lyrical, powerfully dramatic, and completely controlled.