It continued into the 1990s with one distinguished release after another, far too many to list here. The series began in 1966 with a complete recording of Berg's Wozzeck at the Paris Opera and Debussy's La Mer, Jeux and Prélude à l après-midi d un faune with London s New Philharmonia ("A record that needed to be made" Records & Recording). Early on, CBS began documenting that reputation with the benchmark recordings now being brought together in a single release. Principally with those leading orchestras, Pierre Boulez who began his conducting career in order to do justice do his own challenging works quickly garnered the reputation of a peerless interpreter of Berlioz and Wagner Debussy and Ravel Schoenberg, Berg and Webern Bartók and Stravinsky Messiaen, Varèse and Carter. In 1971, he became chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London, and the same year he succeeded Leonard Bernstein as music director of the New York Philharmonic, holding that illustrious position until 1977. Boulez went on to serve in Cleveland as principal guest conductor and musical advisor from 1967 until 1972, and has maintained close ties to that elite ensemble ever since. His remarkable achievements in Europe brought him to the attention of George Szell, who invited him to make his US debut in 1965 with the Cleveland Orchestra. One of the towering figures of modern music, Boulez began his conducting career in 1958 in Baden-Baden, Germany. 4 (1967), Seven Early Songs (1972) and Carter's A Mirror On Which To Dwell. Every recording comes from the best source several have been newly remastered from the original analogue tapes, such as Bergs Altenberg Lieder, Op. They are all being issued together for the first time in a single Sony Classical box set of 67 CDs. Sony Classical is delighted to announce an unprecedented reissue of the recordings made by Pierre Boulez for CBS/American Columbia.
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