The Complete Warner Recordings

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WARNER CLASSICS is publishing for the first time a complete 27-CD + 3-DVD box set devoted to Zubin Mehta, one of the greatest conductors of his generation. Since his rise to international prominence, Zubin Mehta has exercised consummate mastery as a conductor in the concert hall, at the opera, and in the recording studio. Born in Mumbai to a family of Persian origin, his father, a violinist, played for several years in the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli and founded the Bombay Symphony Orchestra, where Zubin made his conducting debut at the age of 16. In the early 1950s, Zubin went to Vienna to complete his training, where he was influenced by the performances of Bruno Walter, Karl Bohm and Herbert von Karajan. He forged close relationships with the world’s greatest orchestras and notably held long tenures as music director of the New York Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic. These two ensembles make a substantial contribution to this 27-CD and 3-DVD collection, as does violinist Itzhak Perlman, one of Mehta’s closest colleagues since the 1960s. The recordings, made between 1967 and 2000, encompass the orchestral, choral, operatic and vocal repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries. His discographic legacy at Warner Classics includes, notably, Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, Holst’s The Planets, Carmina Burana, as well as recordings with the great violinists Itzhak Perlman and Maxim Vengerov, but also a legendary complete Aida with Birgit Nilsson, Grace Bumbry and Franco Corelli, not to mention the worldwide bestseller that was the 1994 Three Tenors concert.