Zubin Mehta - Tribute to Zubin Mehta (6CD) (2006)
Artist: Zubin Mehta
Title: Tribute to Zubin Mehta
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Decca
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 07:48:34
Total Size: 2.2 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Tribute to Zubin Mehta
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: Decca
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 07:48:34
Total Size: 2.2 Gb
WebSite: Album Preview
CD 1
Overture Candide (Leonard Bernstein)
1 Bernstein: Overture Candide 04:14
William Tell (Etienne de Jouy)
2 Overture 11:55
La Scala di Seta (Gioachino Rossini)
3 Overture 06:11
Overture Oberon (Carl Maria von Weber)
4 Weber: Overture Oberon 08:26
Overture Der Freischütz (Carl Maria von Weber)
5 Overture 09:14
La forza del destino (Giuseppe Verdi)
6 Overture (Sinfonia) 07:30
La traviata - Act 1 (Giuseppe Verdi)
7 Prelude 03:21
La traviata - Act 3 (Giuseppe Verdi)
8 Prelude 03:06
Poet and Peasant (Franz von Suppé)
9 Overture 09:07
Die Fledermaus (Richard Genée)
10 Overture 08:10
CD 2
Boléro in C major, op. 19 (Maurice Ravel)
1 Ravel: Boléro, M.81 13:51
La Valse (Maurice Ravel)
2 Ravel: La Valse 11:56
Daphnis et Chloé suite No. 2, M. 57b (Maurice Ravel)
3 1. Lever du jour 06:11
4 2. Pantomime 06:37
5 3. Danse générale 03:28
Circus Polka pour un jeune éléphant (Igor Stravinsky)
6 Stravinsky: Circus Polka for a Young Elephant 03:36
Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 1: The Adoration of the Earth (Igor Stravinsky)
7 Introduction 03:22
8 The Harbingers of Spring, Dance of the Adolescents 02:55
9 Mock Abduction 01:21
10 Spring Rounds 04:10
11 Games of the Rival Tribes 01:51
12 Procession of the Sage - The Sage 01:00
13 Dance of the Earth 01:11
Le Sacre du Printemps / Part 2: The Sacrifice (Igor Stravinsky)
14 1. Introduction 04:12
15 2. Mystical Circle of the Adolescents 03:03
16 3. Glorification of the Chosen One 01:28
17 4. Evocation of the Ancestors 00:48
18 5. Ritual of the Ancestors 03:23
19 6. Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One) 04:12
CD 3
Fanfare for the Common Man (Aaron Copland)
1 Fanfare for the Common Man 02:42
Star Wars (John Williams)
2 Main Title From "Star Wars"Los Angeles Philharmonic 05:09
3 Princess Leia's Theme 04:27
4 The Little People [Star Wars] 04:43
5 The Cantina band [Star Wars] 02:37
6 The Battle [Star Wars] 05:36
7 The Throne Room - End Title [Star Wars] 07:14
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Suite (John Williams)
8 Williams: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Suite 12:35
Concerto for Four Percussion Soloists & Orchestra (William Kraft)
9 1. Recitativo quasi senza misuraWilliam Kraft 03:43
10 2. Allegro con brioWilliam Kraft 04:41
11 3. Cadenza e VariazioniWilliam Kraft 10:12
Holidays - A Symphony (Charles Ives)
12 2. Decoration Day 09:36
Variations on America (Charles Ives)
13 Ives: Variations on AmericaWilliam Schuman 06:47
CD 4
The Planets, Op. 32 (Gustav Holst)
1 1. Mars, the Bringer of War 07:14
2 2. Venus, the Bringer of Peace 08:08
3 3. Mercury, the Winged Messenger 03:51
4 4. Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity 07:52
5 5. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age 09:56
6 6. Uranus, the Magician 05:41
7 7. Neptune, the Mystic 07:08
Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 "Enigma" (Edward Elgar)
8 Theme (Andante) 01:38
9 1. C.A.E. (L'istesso tempo) 01:52
10 2. H.D.S.-P. (Allegro) 00:45
11 3. R.B.T. (Allegretto) 01:23
12 4. W.M.B. (Allegro di molto) 00:29
13 5. R.P.A. (Moderato) 02:19
14 6. Ysobel (Andantino) 01:20
15 7. Troyte (Presto) 00:59
16 8. W.N. (Allegretto) 01:59
17 9. Nimrod (Adagio) 03:45
18 10. Intermezzo: Dorabella (Allegretto) 02:30
19 11. G.R.S. (Allegro di molto) 00:57
20 12. B.G.N. (Andante) 02:56
21 13. Romanza *** (Moderato) 02:29
22 14. Finale: E.D.U. (Allegro - Presto) 05:20
CD 5
Symphony No. 8 in c minor (Anton Bruckner)
1 1. Allegro moderatoLeopold Nowak 14:56
2 2. Scherzo: Allegro moderato - Trio: LangsamLeopold Nowak 14:26
3 3. Adagio: Feierlich langsamLeopold Nowak 27:48
4 4. Finale: Feierlich, nicht schnellLeopold Nowak 21:30
CD 6
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Richard Wagner)
1 Prelude 09:10
Rienzi (Richard Wagner)
2 Overture 11:58
Lohengrin (Richard Wagner)
3 Prelude to Act I 08:58
Philadelphia Symphony, Op. 28 (Gottfried von Einem)
4 1. Allegro giusto 03:10
5 2. Andante 06:19
6 3. Allegro vivace 07:00
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 (Richard Strauss)
7 Prelude (Sonnenaufgang) 01:59
8 Von den Hinterweltlern 03:42
9 Von der großen Sehnsucht 02:01
10 Von den Freuden und Leidenschaften 02:03
11 Das Grablied 02:20
12 Von der Wissenschaft 03:53
13 Der Genesende 05:13
14 Das Tanzlied - Das Nachtlied 07:35
15 Das Nachtwandlerlied 04:11
Performers:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Wiener Philharmoniker
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta's reputation is an (undeservedly) mixed one. Following an excellent term as director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Mehta's career was marked by a rocky period with the New York Philharmonic in which he was caricatured by the NY press as a showman with little substance to his music making. A series of lackluster recordings with that group did not help.
This wonderful collection goes a long way to demonstrating how incorrect this assessment is. The six CD set highlights some of Mehta's best music-making in performances captured in wonderful sound by Decca. Appropriately enough, most of the recordings are with Los Angeles, where Mehta made his reputation. Highlights include a sweeping, gorgeous Also Sprach Zarathustra, an excellent foray through the Enigma Variations, and a savage Rite of Spring. The Planets Suite gets a bravura performance that emphasizes the great debt John Williams Star Wars music owes to Holst's masterpiece. On that note, the Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind suites are delightful editions. Sprinkled throughout are overtures and shorter orchestral showpieces, and while the commanding performance of Bruckner's 8th Symphony is not quite at the same level as Jochum's, Wand's, or Karajan's, it certainly confirms Mehta's reputation as a great conductor of the late German romantics. It also attests to the way Mehta was able to get the LA Philharmonic to sound like the Vienna Philharmonic, with its luxuriant strings.
Any admirer of this conductor or this music will not be disappointed.
This wonderful collection goes a long way to demonstrating how incorrect this assessment is. The six CD set highlights some of Mehta's best music-making in performances captured in wonderful sound by Decca. Appropriately enough, most of the recordings are with Los Angeles, where Mehta made his reputation. Highlights include a sweeping, gorgeous Also Sprach Zarathustra, an excellent foray through the Enigma Variations, and a savage Rite of Spring. The Planets Suite gets a bravura performance that emphasizes the great debt John Williams Star Wars music owes to Holst's masterpiece. On that note, the Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind suites are delightful editions. Sprinkled throughout are overtures and shorter orchestral showpieces, and while the commanding performance of Bruckner's 8th Symphony is not quite at the same level as Jochum's, Wand's, or Karajan's, it certainly confirms Mehta's reputation as a great conductor of the late German romantics. It also attests to the way Mehta was able to get the LA Philharmonic to sound like the Vienna Philharmonic, with its luxuriant strings.
Any admirer of this conductor or this music will not be disappointed.
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