Zubin Mehta
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Internationally acclaimed Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta, who is known for his flamboyant and charismatic style, has been music director and conductor of many of the world's top symphonic orchestras including the Israel Philharmonic, where he was named music director for life in 1981. Lauded for his operatic performances, he conducted Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo and José Carreras in the Three Tenors concert with the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma at the Football World Cup Tournament in 1990. A recording of the concert won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance that year.
Born in Bombay, the maestro learned to play the violin and piano with his father Mehli Mehta, founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, and began conducting in his teens. He graduated from the Vienna State Music Academy and after wins in international competitions he made his professional conducting debut with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic at the age of 21. In 1961 he became music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and in '65 he made his debut with the Metropolitan Orchestra in New York. He was named music director and principal conductor there in 1978 having become music director of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1977. He has held similar positions with the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and the opera house of the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències in Valencia, Spain.
Over a very long career, Mehta has conducted memorable concerts in aid of the victims of the Balkan wars, combined members of the Bavarian State Orchestra with the Israel Philharmonic in a Holocaust memorial, toured India and China, and played at the BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. Opera Magazine in 2009 said his style "favours bold attack and voluptuous sonority... no matter what he conducts, he retains completely cool and poised control."
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Münchner Philharmoniker / Zubin Mehta
Mozart: Gran Partita; Requiem (Fragment); Ave Verum Corpus
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Zubin Mehta
Nielsen : Symphony N°4 "The Inextinguishable" - Scriabin : Le Poème de l'extase
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Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta
Schumann: The Four Symphonies; Manfred Overture; Genoveva Overture
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Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Grace Bumbry, Zubin Mehta & Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera, Roma
Verdi: Aida
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- Violin Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 77: II. Scherzo. Allegro featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Violin Concerto No.1 In A Minor, Op. 99: Nocturne: Moderato featuring Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Violin Concerto In A Minor Op. 82: Moderato featuring Itzhak Perlman
- Puccini: Turandot, Act I: Non piangere, Liù! â Ah! Per l'ultima volta! featuring Montserrat Caballé
- Aida, Act I, Scene 1: Celeste Aida (Radames) featuring Zubin Mehta
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3 - "So il tuo nome!" featuring Joan Sutherland
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3 - "Del primo pianto...Più grande vittoria non voler" featuring Joan Sutherland
- Massenet: Manon / Act 3: Io son sol...Ah! Dispar vision featuring New York Philharmonic
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3 - Che è mai di me? featuring Joan Sutherland
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: "Diecimile anni al nostro Imperatore...Padre augusto" featuring London Philharmonic Orchestra
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3 - "Principessa di morte!" featuring Joan Sutherland
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: Introduzione - Così comanda Turandot by Zubin Mehta
- Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, Op.44: I. Adagio non troppo featuring Itzhak Perlman
- Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90: Liebestod featuring Montserrat Caballé
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 2: Tre enigmi m'hai proposto featuring Andrea Bocelli
- Scottish Fantasy, Op.46: III. Andante sostenuto featuring Itzhak Perlman
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: Principessa di morte! featuring Zubin Mehta
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: Tu che di gel sei cinta featuring Andrea Bocelli
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: So il tuo nome! featuring Zubin Mehta
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: Diecimilia anni al nostro Imperatore! featuring Zubin Mehta
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: Che è mai di me? featuring Andrea Bocelli
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: Del primo pianto featuring Zubin Mehta
- Puccini: Turandot / Act 3: Diecimila anni al nostro Imperatore! by Zubin Mehta
- Verdi: La traviata / Act 1 - "Libiamo ne'lieti calici"Â (Brindisi) featuring Zubin Mehta
