MUSIC

Coming Alive: Kurt Masur, music director of the New York Philharmonic, has a new six-year, 32-disc recording contract to make live recordings for Teldec during the orchestra’s performances at Avery Fisher Hall. Masur says live recording isn’t easier than studio recording for the Philharmonic: “It has to play very perfect. On the other hand, it has to take the risk to make it live and not be a boring new recording of a symphony.”