Lorin Maazel - Direct From Cleveland (1977) 24-Bit/96-kHz Vinyl Rip

Jack Renner and Robert Woods dared to aim high, think big and take risks. In 1977, they had the audacity – and the funding – to hire the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Lorin Maazel to launch their company, TELARC Records. Their debut album, Direct from Cleveland, was the first modern-day direct-to-disc long-play recording of a symphonic ensemble, and it put the small company on the audiophile map.
(Simeon Louis Sandiford, SoundStage!2Network)

But it was in 1977 that Telarc was founded, and things started going in the direction that we find ourselves today. Back then, as you may recall, Doug Sax was leading the direct-to-disc revolution. Sheffield Labs was going great guns; it was obvious that was what audiophiles wanted. So we decided we'd do them one better and make a direct-to-disc recording with a major orchestra. We approached Lorin Maazel at the Cleveland Orchestra, and he said, "Well, I'm an adventuresome person, let's do it." The LP was the rather cleverly titled Direct from Cleveland and it was a three-way collaboration between us and Bruce Maier, the founder of Discwasher, and Glen Glancy, who owned a record company in California at the time.
(Jack Renner, as interviewed by Jonathan Scull - Stereophile, 1998)

Performers:
The Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel

Track Listing:

1. Manuel de Falla: Final Dance (Jota) [from The Three Cornered Hat ballet]
2. Georges Bizet: Farandole [from L'Arlesienne Suite No.2]
3. Tchaikovsky: Polonaise [from Eugen Onegin, Op. 24]
4. Hector Berlioz: Le Corsaire [Overture, Op. 21]
5. Hector Berlioz: Hungarian March [from Damnation of Faust, Op. 24]