ALBUMVerdi: AidaAndrea Bocelli, Zubin Mehta, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Kristin Lewis & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMBeethoven's Ninth Symphony by Maurice BéjartGil Roman, Béjart Ballet Lausanne, The Tokyo Ballet, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 1Australian World Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMStravinsky: The Rite of SpringAustralian World Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMBerlioz: Harold in Italy; Bloch: Voice in The WildernessDaniel Benyamini, Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & János Starker
ALBUMSchumann: The Four Symphonies; Manfred Overture; Genoveva OvertureVienna Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMAffair of Honor / Für uns EhrensacheLorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Blasmusik by the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra & Munich Philharmonic
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 5Los Angeles Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMNielsen: Symphony No. 4 "The Inextinguishable" - Scriabin: Le Poème de L'Extase (Australian Eloquence Digital)Los Angeles Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMVarèse: Arcana; Integrales; IonisationLos Angeles Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphony No. 9 Op. 125 "Choral" & Choral Fantasy ConclusionZubin Mehta, Dame Margaret Price, Emanuel Ax, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Matti Salminen, New York Choral Artists & New York Philharmonic
ALBUMBeethoven: Symphony No. 7; Leonore No. 3; "Egmont" OvertureLos Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta & Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMSchubert: The Symphonies Vol.1Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMSchubert: The Symphonies Vol.2Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No. 5Zubin Mehta & Bavarian State Orchestra
ALBUMChopin: The Piano Concertosラン・ラン, ズービン・メータ & ウィーン・フィルハーモニー管弦楽団
ALBUMDvorák: Cello Concerto & Richard Strauss: Don QuixoteMischa Maisky, Berlin Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMWagner: Die WalküreZubin Mehta, Bavarian State Orchestra & Waltraud Meier
ALBUMChopin: The Piano ConcertosLang Lang, Vienna Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMTzvi AvniZubin Mehta, Lukas Foss, Mendi Rodan & Gary Bertini
ALBUMVerdi: La traviataEteri Gvazava, José Cura, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Solisti Cantori & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMPuccini: La BohèmeAndrea Bocelli, Barbara Frittoli, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMVerdi: Requiem/Quattro Pezzi Sacri (2 CDs)Leontyne Price, Wiener Singverein, Fritz Reiner, Rosalind Elias, Zubin Mehta, Vienna Philharmonic, Jussi Björling, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Giorgio Tozzi & Los Angeles Philharmonic
ALBUMPuccini: Turandot in the Forbidden CityZubin Mehta, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMMozart: Le nozze di FigaroRAI Symphony Chorus, RAI Symphony Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMLiszt: Symphonic PoemsZubin Mehta & Berlin Philharmonic
ALBUMVerdi: Il Trovatore (Highlights)Zubin Mehta, Luciano Pavarotti, Antonella Banaudi, Leo Nucci, Shirley Verrett, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMGaetano Donizetti: Lucia Di LammermoorZubin Mehta, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMFranck: Symphony - Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 with OrganZubin Mehta & Berlin Philharmonic
ALBUMPuccini: ToscaCatherine Malfitano, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Zubin Mehta and Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma Della RAI
ALBUMLiszt: Symphonic Poèms, Les Préludes, Orpheus, MazeppaZubin Mehta & Berlin Philharmonic
ALBUMProkofiev: Concerto Nos. 1 & 2 for Violin and Orchestra; Bartók: Rhapsody Nos. 1 & 2 for Violin and OrchestraZubin Mehta, Isaac Stern, Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
ALBUMMozart: Serenade "Gran Partita"Zubin Mehta & Berlin Philharmonic
ALBUMVerdi: Il trovatoreLuciano Pavarotti, Antonella Banaudi, Shirley Verrett, Leo Nucci, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMMozart: Serenade, K. 361Zubin Mehta & Berlin Philharmonic
ALBUMNeujahrskonzert (New Year's Concert 1995)Vienna Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMStrauss: Ein Heldenleben & Horn Concerto No. 2Zubin Mehta, Berlin Philharmonic & Norbert Hauptmann
ALBUMVerdi: La Traviata (Highlights)Zubin Mehta & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMProkofiev: Piano Concertos 2 & 4, Overture on Hebrew ThemesIsrael Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta & Juilliard String Quartet
ALBUMMozart: Le Nozze di FigaroZubin Mehta, Karita Mattila, Lucio Gallo & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMMozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (feat. Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino)Zubin Mehta & Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMMozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492Zubin Mehta & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMProkofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 4Zubin Mehta, Yefim Bronfman & Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMZubin Mehta Conducts BrahmsZubin Mehta
ALBUMVerdi: La traviataZubin Mehta, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Alfredo Kraus, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
ALBUMProkofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 3, 5Yefim Bronfman, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMKraft: Concerto for 4 Percussion Soloists, Contextures IZubin Mehta, Los Angeles Philharmonic & Los Angeles Horn Club
ALBUMOrff: Carmina BuranaBoje Skovhus, London Philarmonic Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sumi Jo & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMTchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Capriccio Italien & Excerpts from Swan LakeZubin Mehta & Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
An energetic advocate for the Romantic repertoire with a keen eye for crossover opportunities.
About Zubin Mehta
Artist Biography
During his energetic heyday as leader of two major American symphony orchestras, Zubin Mehta epitomised the notion of conductor as youthful celebrity. Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, in 1936, Mehta conducted full rehearsals of the city’s symphony orchestra, founded by his father, at age 16. After abandoning his medical studies, he earned a conducting diploma at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and was soon guest-conducting groups like the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Word of his precocious skill, dashing podium style and knowledge of Germany’s Romantic composers soon spread, and he became music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in 1960 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1962—making him the first person to simultaneously direct two North American symphony orchestras. An impressive 1965 recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9 with the Vienna Philharmonic enhanced his growing reputation, as did a stupendous 1975 version of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with the same group. In 1977, he took over the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, later conducting them through the Gulf War and a concert at Buchenwald concentration camp. In 1978, following austere ultra-modernist Pierre Boulez’s tenure, he brought his more conservative charm to Manhattan as leader of the New York Philharmonic, commissioning Ravi Shankar’s Sitar Concerto No. 2 and conducting annual concerts in Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church. During the early ’90s, the podium populist conducted the first Three Tenors concerts. He also enjoyed a long tenure with the Bavarian State Orchestra, which he began conducting in 1998, and continued leading the Israel Philharmonic until 2019.
Hometown
Bombay, India
Genre
Classical
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