• Zubin Mehta’s tenure of over 16 years as the musical director of the ‘LA Phil’ marks an important chapter in the orchestra’s history. The recorded portrait of the musical partnership between the first American orchestra to be exclusively contracted by a British recording company and the dynamic maestro is explored here in this new edition
• New remasterings
• Landmark recordings of Mahler’s and Saint-Saëns’s Third Symphonies, Ravel orchestral works, tone poems by Richard Strauss and the Decca demonstration disc (for its time and today) of music from Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
• PACKAGING: 2-piece box | 38CDs | original jackets & spined wallets | 140pp booklet with extensive new essay by Cyrus Meher-Homji OAM (SVP at Universal Music Australia, who has been close to Mehta for several years), and notes from Decca Producer, John Mordler, and Decca Engineer Simon Eadon, plus many photos from the Decca archives
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73 ‘Emperor’
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Bizet: Carmen: Prelude to Act I
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Bizet: Carmen: Prelude to Act IV
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major ‘Romantic’
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Copland: Appalachian Spring – Suite
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Copland: Lincoln Portrait
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta
Dvořák: Carnival Overture, Op. 92
- Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
- Zubin Mehta