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ALBUMSchumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat MajorVienna Philharmonic, Martha Argerich & Zubin Mehta
Albums by Zubin Mehta
ALBUMSchumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat MajorVienna Philharmonic, Martha Argerich & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMBruckner: Symphony No. 8Zubin Mehta & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
ALBUMBeethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 5 "Emperor" & Rondo, WoO 6 (1995 Remastered Version)Alfred Brendel, Vienna Volksoper Orchestra, Heinz Wallberg, Zubin Mehta & Vienna Philharmonic
ALBUMStrauss: Sinfonia DomesticaZubin Mehta & Munich Philharmonic
ALBUMHaydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMVerdi: AïdaZubin Mehta, Orchestra Of The Rome Opera House, Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli & Grace Bumbry
ALBUMHaydn: Die Schöpfung (Live)Zubin Mehta & Munich Philharmonic
ALBUMBruckner: Symphony No. 8Berlin Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMOtto M. Zykan: Cello ConcertosHeinrich Schiff, Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Leif Segerstam & Zubin Mehta
ALBUMAnton Bruckner: Sinfonia No. 4 RomanticaZubin Mehta & Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Zubin Mehta's Popular Music Videos
O Sole Mio
Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, José Carreras, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
Turandot, Act III: "Nessun Dorma"
Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House & Zubin Mehta
Turandot, Act 3: "Nessun Dorma" (Without Applause)
Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
Turandot, Act III: Nessun Dorma!
Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony By Maurice Béjart: On Schillers Ode to Joy, 2nd Movement Scherzo: Molto vivace – Presto
Zubin Mehta, Gil Roman, Béjart Ballet Lausanne & The Tokyo Ballet
L'Arlesiana, Act II: É la solita storia (Lamento di Federico)
José Carreras, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
Tosca / Act 1: Recondita armonia
Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
Rondine al Nido
Luciano Pavarotti, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
O Sole Mio
José Carreras, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo & Zubin Mehta
L'Africaine / Act 4: "O Paradiso"
Plácido Domingo, Orchestra of the Rome Opera House, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta
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An energetic advocate for the Romantic repertoire with a keen eye for crossover opportunities.
Artist Biography
During his energetic heyday as leader of two major American symphony orchestras, Zubin Mehta epitomized 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