Zubin Mehta, Covent Garden, Carol Neblett, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes – Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (1978/2017) MCH SACD ISO

Zubin Mehta, Covent Garden, Carol Neblett, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes – Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (1978/2017)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 / 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:09:51 minutes | Full Scans included | 5,08 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): PentaTone – PTC5186243

This classic recording dating from 1977 is Gramophone magazine’s top choice for the opera and can now be enjoyed for the first time in full SACD hybrid multichannel sound.

Puccini’s late opera La fanciulla del West bristles with drama and intrigue in this newly remastered classic recording with Zubin Mehta conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House and starring Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes and Carol Neblett.

“Carol Neblett is a strong Minnie, vocally distinctive and well characterised, while Plácido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes make a good pair of suitors …. Zubin Mehta conducts with real sympathy for the idiom” (Gramophone). And the Penguin Guide to Compact Discs and DVDs (2003/4) enthused “Domingo sings heroically … but the crowning glory of a masterly set is the singing of Carol Neblett … Full atmospheric recording to match.”

Although recorded in multi-channel sound, these memorable performances have previously been available only in the conventional two-channel stereo format. Using state of the art technology which avoids the need for re-mixing, our engineers have remastered the original studio tapes to bring the performances to life as originally intended: in compelling and pristine multi-channel sound.

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Vienna Philharmonic, Martha Argerich and Zubin Mehta – Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major (2024) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Vienna Philharmonic, Martha Argerich and Zubin Mehta – Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 & Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:39:47 minutes | 997 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Platoon

The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (German: Wiener Philharmoniker) is a symphony orchestra based in Vienna, Austria, and considered one of the best in the world.

The main concert hall of the orchestra is it. Musikverein is a concert hall of the Society of Music Lovers (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde). The musicians are recruited from the Vienna Opera Orchestra, where they must first play for at least three years. The orchestra was founded in 1842 by Otto Nicolai.

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Wiener Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Vienna Philharmonic New Year’s Concert (Neujahrskonzert) (2015) Blu-ray 1080i AVC DTS-HD MA 5.1

Title: New Year’s Concert / Neujahrskonzert 2015
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Zubin Mehta

Production/Label: Sony Classical
Duration: 01:55:11
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video 34482 kbps 1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: LPCM Audio German 2304 kbps 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: DTS-HD Master Audio German 4368 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4368 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 45.57 GB

The New Year’s Concert live from Vienna is one of the world’s most famous and spectacular classical music events. It is broadcast from the flower-filled Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein on TV and radio in almost 80 countries around the world with over 40 million viewers. The annual New Year’s Day Concert in Vienna has been a major event for more than seven decades. The resulting recordings with works from the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries are among the most classical important releases available today. For the 2015 concert, the Vienna Philharmonic has invited Zubin Mehta to conduct. This will be the fifth time that Maestro Mehta has ascended the podium. He previously conducted in 1990, 1995, 1998 and 2007. The list of conductors who have led the Vienna Philharmonic’s New Year’s Concerts reads like a veritable who’s who of great maestros including Herbert von Karajan, Lorin Maazel, Claudio Abbado, Carlos Kleiber, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Seiji Ozawa, Mariss Jansons, and Franz Welser-Möst among many more. World-renowned Indian conductor Zubin Mehta (b.1936) and the Vienna Philharmonic share many years of intensive artistic collaboration with one another. Even in Mehta’s youth, Vienna was at the centre of his musical interest, having completed his education under Hans Swarovsky at the Music Academy and observed his future musical colleagues from the standing room in the Musikverein. In 1961, he conducted his first concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, and in 2001 after 40 years of artistic collaboration, he was awarded Honorary Membership in the Vienna Philharmonic as the orchestra’s longest serving conductor. (more…)

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Zubin Mehta – Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Zubin Mehta – Beethoven: Complete Symphonies (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 06:09:23 minutes | 3,44 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic

Beethoven’s symphonic cycle is one of the most quintessential in the Western classical canon. They chart a course from the influence of Haydn and Classical models in the early symphonies, through works of startling innovation and the birth of Romanticism, to his monumental Ninth Symphony for soloists, chorus and orchestra. Zubin Mehta conducts the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in these live recordings from 2021/22.

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Joan Sutherland, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Ghiaurov, The John Alldis Choir, Zubin Mehta – Turandot (1972/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Joan Sutherland, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Nicolai Ghiaurov, The John Alldis Choir, Zubin Mehta – Turandot (1972/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:57:51 minutes | 2,20 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca

Turandot is Puccini’s last opera and contains some of his most enchanting and memorable music. This recording features a stellar cast of singers with London Philharmonic Orchestra, masterfully conducted by Zubin Mehta.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Live) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Haydn: Die Schöpfung (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:44:53 minutes | 1,97 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

When this recording was released in 2021, conductor Zubin Mehta was 85; it was made over three days in 2019. There isn’t an absolutely compelling novelty contained here, and this is very much an old-school Haydn performance with a full symphony orchestra and chorus (not that you’d want anything less in this work, whose rock-concert atmosphere at the initial performance is well described in the booklet). For those in search of the combination of Mehta and Haydn’s Die Schöpfung, Mehta’s performance some years ago with the Israel Philharmonic, with the sublime Barbara Hendricks as the soprano soloist, has a bit more of an edge. However, there is something satisfying about a maestro who continues to issue masterly performances at an advanced age. Part of the appeal is that all the musicians here made it their business to be at their best, not only the Münchner Philharmoniker, but the soloists, soprano Mojca Erdmann, tenor Dmitry Korchak, and bass René Pape, and the Philharmonischer Chor München. Everything comes off smoothly and nobly and certainly shows that Mehta is not done yet. The orchestra’s engineers deliver superior sound from the Philharmonie im Gasteig; the recording’s clarity enhances the enduring Enlightenment mood.

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Mischa Maisky,Zubin Mehta – Dvorák: Cello Concerto / Strauss, R.: Don Quixote (2003/2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Mischa Maisky,Zubin Mehta – Dvorák: Cello Concerto / Strauss, R.: Don Quixote (2003/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:20:18 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

A musically interesting coupling, given that for the Strauss the soloist is (or should be) a first among equals, whereas in the concerto Dvorák places him very much in the spotlight. Mischa Maisky’s earlier DG account of the Dvorák had Leonard Bernstein at the helm, quite different to the urbane and thoughtful Zubin Mehta, a superb accompanist in the sense that he so often makes chamber music of the score, delving behind the notes even when the cellist hogs the limelight. He also handles transitions well; for example, the shadows that fall among lower strings at around 8’20” and the fluttering woodwinds that emerge out of them. Maisky’s ensuing solo work has a hushed, almost fragile feel to it. Elsewhere he’s unremittingly intense and takes a fairly liberal view of note values, lingering here, pushing forth there, much as he does for his first entry after the opening tutti.
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Zubin Mehta – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Liszt: Mazeppa (2023) (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks & Zubin Mehta – Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Liszt: Mazeppa (2023) (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 59:53 minutes | 553 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BR-Klassik

The Indian conductor Zubin Mehta is closely associated with the city of Munich and the orchestras based there. From 1998 to 2006, he was General Music Director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, and has similarly close ties with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra’s 2018 Asian tour with Zubin Mehta was voted No. 1 in the “10 Top Concerts 2018” by Japanese critics. In January 2020, he conducted the memorial concert of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for their late chief conductor Mariss Jansons. – This BR-KLASSIK CD features recordings of concerts on February 28 and March 1, 2013 in the Philharmonie im Gasteig.

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Münchner Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Münchner Philharmoniker & Zubin Mehta – Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 49:09 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MUNCHNER PHILHARMONIKER GBR

Richard Strauss was in his element shortly after 1900 when he prepared to portray his now three-member family in a symphonic way: “Bubi” had expanded the cozy togetherness with his wife (and soprano) Pauline into a “trio con brio” since 1897 and the artist marriage was the greatest cheerfully mixed up. The press and the public were shocked: How could you write a symphony about yourself and divulge the most intimate secrets of your married life (musically)! Strauss, however, was convinced, like his great role model Goethe, that an artist fundamentally draws “from the poetic content of his own life” and was not at a loss to acknowledge the premiere of his “Sinfonia domestica” in the New York department store Wanamaker, which had been cleared out especially for this purpose, as ” and legitimate earning of a living for wife and child”.

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Plácido Domingo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Ryland Davie, Stanley Riley, Neilson Taylor, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta – Verdi: Il Trovatore (1969/2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Plácido Domingo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Leontyne Price, Sherrill Milnes, Bonaldo Giaiotti, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Ryland Davie, Stanley Riley, Neilson Taylor, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Zubin Mehta – Verdi: Il Trovatore (1969/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:15:50 minutes | 2,61 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

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Andrea Bocelli, Kristin Lewis, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta – Verdi: Aida (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Andrea Bocelli, Kristin Lewis, Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta – Verdi: Aida (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:25:50 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.

Following Andrea Bocelli’s recent smash-hit release “Cinema”, the award-winning, top-selling, international tenor returns to his first love, singing opera. One of the world’s best-loved operas, AIDA has been performed over 1,100 times at New York’s Metropolitan Opera alone.

Through an opera of high dramatic tension, Verdi offers monumental scenes and intimate drama. Taking the lead male role of Radamès – an Egyptian military commander – Bocelli’s powerful tenor tells a compelling story of dedication, intrigue, power, and intense love.

In this eagerly-awaited complete opera recording from superstar Andrea Bocelli, the tenor assembles a fine cast to explore Verdi’s most spectacular work: the award-winning American soprano Kristin Lewis takes the role of Aida, the brilliant Italian mezzo Veronica Simeoni as Amneri. Giorgio Giuseppini takes the role of Il Re (the Egyptian King), the powerful Ambrogio Maestri (“Italy’s answer to Bryn Terfel”) as Amonasro and Carlo Colombara, renowned Verdi bass, as Ramfis.

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Rudolf Buchbinder, Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta – Brahms: Piano Concertos (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Rudolf Buchbinder, Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta - Brahms: Piano Concertos (2016) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

Rudolf Buchbinder, Wiener Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta – Brahms: Piano Concertos (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:30:31 minutes | 780 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical

“It is not every day that Brahms sounds so perfect as this,” enthuses the Kurier newspaper, describing Buchbinder’s performance with the Vienna Philharmonic. The “phenomenal piano virtuoso” (Kurier) plays the First and Second Piano Concertos of Johannes Brahms in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein with Maestro Zubin Mehta, who has long been intensively associated both with the orchestra and with soloist Rudolf Buchbinder.
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Berliner Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta – Anton Bruckner: Symphonie 8 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta - Anton Bruckner: Symphonie 8 (2019) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz] Download

Berliner Philharmoniker, Zubin Mehta – Anton Bruckner: Symphonie 8 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:21:16 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

The Berliner Philharmoniker and their honorary member Zubin Mehta are travelling to Japan – with Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony. Zubin Mehta confesses to feeling particularly close to this mammoth work. Above all, the warm-sounding Adagio is “among the greatest Romantic movements, and when the cellos and violas sing out freely in the second theme, it breaks your heart”. Before setting off for Japan, the conductor and orchestra present their tour programme at the Berlin Philharmonie.
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Marjana Lipovšek, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta – Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 3 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Marjana Lipovšek, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta - Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 3 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Marjana Lipovšek, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Zubin Mehta – Mahler: Symphonie Nr. 3 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:39:38 minutes | 1,48 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Farao Classics

For some orchestras, concert tours are a normal part of their work. For an opera orchestra, on the other hand, a tour with a symphonic program is something extraordinary. The Bavarian State Orchestra is considered one of the most important and traditional ensembles in the international opera business – we play in one of the most renowned houses in the world!
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Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta – Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino & Zubin Mehta – Haydn: Die Schöpfung, Hob. XXI:2 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:50:09 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dynamic

Inspired by hearing performances of Handel’s oratorios during his visits to London, Haydn composed Die Sch”opfung (The Creation) in 1798. Through a series of accompanied recitatives, arias, duets and choruses, the music depicts the creation of the universe and the carefree existence of Adam and Eve. Haydn drew on the full complement of his symphonic and vocal prowess which reach peaks of almost operatic intensity. With rich harmonies and sonic magnificence in abundance, Die Sch”opfung represents the apex of the Viennese oratorio tradition. It’s a monumental composition with orchestrations of superb richness in which Haydn combines the splendour of classicism with the majesty of sacred music. Large choruses, a sense of momentum and music that’s both powerful and refined accompany the listener through the various phases of the Bible’s account of the Creation, from the explosion of the first light to the marvelous air of the creation of man. To quote Alexander Pereira, superintendent of Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino: “The Creation conveys a meaning that reaches all the religions of the world equally, and that is why we decided to propose this marvelous masterpiece by Haydn as a sign of unity between all; it is a very important message at this time.”

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