"Kurt Masur's great success in New York has been to instill amongst the musicians a corporate direction and pride…he and the Philharmonic were the right match at the right time. To an increasingly frenetic, overstated world, the Maestro's music-making provides a welcome sanity, coupled with a strong vein of lyricism…his choices come from a passionate conviction in the humanistic power of music to heal. It's only fitting that this 10-CD set consists of several of his finest concert performances in honor of his music directorship." -- Sedgwick Clark, Editor, Musical America