Zubin Mehta - Conductors - Zubin Mehta - Retrospective

EuroArts

£51.30

Format: 7 DVD Set
ICPN: 0880242655288
Release Date: 28th May 2021
Genre: Classical

Deluxe hardcover book with liner notes in English and German, approx. 32 – 40 pages

The Conductors Series, dedicated to the most distinguished conductors of our time, is continued with Zubin Mehta

• A luxury edition for collectors with an extraordinary packaging: elegant deluxe hardcover book, extensive editorial and bonus material

• Zubin Mehta, born 29 April 1936 in Bombay, took a final bow in October 2019 and retired after almost 50 years as Musical Director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO)

• Maestro Mehta has conducted more than 1.000 concerts with orchestras from around the world, including The Berliner Philharmoniker, The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, The Wiener Philharmoniker, The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

• This edition includes a never before released recording from Zubin Mehta’s farewell concert with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

The encore given in this concert marked the historic transition from one generation of conductors to the next, with Yefim Bronfman and Lahav Shani (Mehta’s successor as Musical Director at the IPO) performing Antonin Dvořák: Slavonic Dances, Op 72, No 2 in E minor for piano for four hands

The farewell concert is supplemented with an extensive and emotional interview with Zubin Mehta

• With international TOP soloists: Marcelo Alvarez, Yefim Bronfman, José Carreras, Daniela Dessì, Plácido Domingo, Barbara Frittoli, Evgeny Kissin, Elisabeth Kulmann, Ambrogio Maestri, Leo Nucci, Julian Rachlin, Ruggero Raimondi, Vadim Repin

DVDs included
DVD 1 Zubin Mehta conducts Bartók, Dvořák and Mozart in Los Angeles (110 mins)
Los Angeles Philharmonic ∙ Zubin Mehta ∙ David Breidenthal bassoon
Recorded live at the Music Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, 10-13 January 1977

DVD 2 St. Petersburg Night - Waldbühne 1997 (96 mins)
Berliner Philharmoniker ∙ Zubin Mehta ∙ Daniel Barenboim piano ∙ Rundfunkchor Berlin
Recorded live at Waldbühne Berlin, June 1997

DVD 3 Gran Gala di Verdi (182 mins)
Coro del Festival Verdi ∙ Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ∙ Zubin Mehta
Recorded live at the Teatro Padiglione Palacassa, Parma, 11 March 2001

DVD 4 75th Anniversary Concert of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (95 mins)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ∙ Zubin Mehta ∙ Evgeny Kissin piano ∙ Julian Rachlin violin Vadim Repin violin
Recorded live at The Hangar, Tel-Aviv, 24 December 2011

DVD 5 Verdi: Falstaff from the Salzburger Festspiele (125 mins)
Zubin Mehta ∙ Wiener Philharmoniker ∙ Philharmonia Chor Wien
Recorded live at Salzburg Festival 2013, from the Haus für Mozart

DVD 6 The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart - On Schiller's Ode to Joy (88 mins)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ∙ Béjart Ballet ∙ Zubin Mehta
Recorded live at NHK Hall, Tokyo, November 2014

DVD 7 Farewell Concert (130 mins)
Including Interview with Zubin Mehta
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra ∙ Zubin Mehta ∙ Yefim Bronfman piano ∙ Chen Reiss soprano ∙ Okka von der Damerau mezzo-soprano
Recorded live at the Bronfman Hall, Tel Aviv, 2019