The history of America's longest-running symphony orchestra is chock full of stylistic variation. The New York Philharmonic's catalogue boasts theatrically exuberant performances from one-time music director Leonard Bernstein, as well as the coolly precise recordings, often inching slowly into red-hot territory, favoured by French modernist Pierre Boulez, the principal conductor of a later era. Sampling each distinct style from the orchestra's vast archive—including the Romantic abandon of Zubin Mehta—makes for a well-balanced survey of symphonic excellence.