Though there's a high proportion of 20th-century repertoire, the works range chronologically from Mozart (the Jupiter Symphony) conducted by Iván Fischer and Haydn (Symphony No 97) under Nikolaus Harnoncourt to Daniel Harding conducting Thomas Adès's Asyla and George Benjamin conducting Wolfgang Rihm's Marsyas, but regardless of the conductor or the repertoire, the depth and eloquence of the strings, the quick-witted brilliance of the woodwind and the rounded security of the brass are unfailing. In 2004, Mariss Jansons followed Riccardo Chailly as the orchestra's musical director, so these discs document a transitional period, though one in which the RCO's stature as arguably the world's greatest orchestra never seemed compromised, and throughout this set it's the astonishing consistency of the orchestral playing that is most vivid.
The first covered 1935 to 1950 subsequent sets have been devoted to single decades, and the latest brings the story up to date. T his is the seventh collection of performances originally broadcast on Netherlands Radio through which the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has traced its history.
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