"Actor: Zubin Mehta"

• Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti In Concert | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £9.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (7.53%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Recorded live in Rome in July 1990 at a special gala performance. The tracklist includes works from Tosca Turandot and L'Africaine before all three tenors sing a specially arranged music medley.

• The Three Tenors - In Concert 1994 | DVD | (29/06/1998) from £13.43   |  Saving you £4.56 (33.95%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring Jose Carreras Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti in concert on July 16th 1994 at the Dodger Stadium Los Angeles California. Zubin Mehta conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Chorus. Tracklist includes: 'America' (West Side Story) 'O Sole Mio' (Di Capua) 'Brindisi' (La Traviata) and 'Tribute To Hollywood' (Medley).

• Wagner: Tristan und Isolde | DVD | (15/05/2000) from £26.75   |  Saving you £3.24 (12.11%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Waltraud Meier is the stuff of which great Isoldes are made--a passionate actress who sings her heart out at every point and yet somehow keeps something in reserve from the narration and curse of the first act for the love duet of the second and the "Liebestod" of the third. Her Tristan, Jon Fredric West, is more or less her equal--he is particularly impressive in the mad death agony of the third act; his Tristan is an ordinary hero who becomes something larger. Among the other principals, Kurt Moll's Mark stands out in its eloquent heart-break, not so much a cuckold as a man who wants everything to work out right; Weikl's Kurwenal and Lipovsek's Brangane are, credibly, ordinary people caught up in great tragedy. Mehta's account of the score is solid and professional--he gets nothing wrong and everything right in a performance which survives occasionally perversely innovative staging to touch greatness. On the DVD: The DVD includes subtitles in French, German, English and Dutch. --Roz Kaveney

• Puccini: Tosca- In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca | Blu Ray | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Vienna State Opera Gala 2005 - Gala Concert 50th Anniversary Of The Re-Opening | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £14.57   |  Saving you £10.42 (71.52%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A 50 year celebration of the re-opening of the Vienna State Opera since the Second World War.

• Schubert: The Trout / The Greatest Love And The Greatest Sorrow | DVD | (27/06/2005) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Trout is an exuberant explosion of youthful enjoyment in music: first from Schubert himself who wrote his famous Trout quintet when he was 22 years old and then from five young artists of the highest rank. They pick up the spirit of Schubert's music magnificently both in preparation and rehearsal and in their 1969 performance of the work which has become one of the most remembered ever given.The Greatest Love and the Greatest Sorrow is a film which sets out to bring the viewer closer not to the details of Schubert's life but to the spirit of what he was trying to express with what he called his creative gift and with which he tried to brighten the world. The film begins with the funeral of Beethoven at which Schubert was a torch-bearer and the story is told almost entirely in music that Schubert wrote in the twenty months that remained to him after that date together with quotations from his letters and diaries and the words that he chose to set in some of his songs.

• Wiener Philharmoniker - Best of Neujahrskonzert | DVD | (03/12/2007) from £13.39   |  Saving you £2.60 (16.30%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The very first DVD collection of highlights of one of the most popular classical music events in the world; the famous anual New Year's concert of the Vienna Philharmonic . This is a true 'best of' in terms of the conductors: ranging from the legendary era of Willy Boskovsky in the 70's to the enthusiastically acclamation of this year's 2007 concert under the baton of Zubin Mehta including unforgettable interpretations of Carlos Kleiber Mariss Jansons Seiji Ozawa and Lorin Maazel. Best of New Year's Concert is a visual feast: great waltzes with ballet the most famous sights of Vienna such as the Prater Hofburg Belvedere Riesenrad Spanish Riding school and Sch''nbrunn. Track Listing: 1. Overture 2. Voices Of Spring Op.410 (Fr''hlingsstimmen) 3. Elisen - Polka Fran''aise Op.151 4. Geschichten Aus Dem Wienerwald Op.325 5. Die Libelle - Polka Mazur Op.204 (1867) 6. Wo Die Zitronen Bl''h'n Op.364 7. Auf Wiener Art. Polka Francaise O.Op. 8. Tritsch Tratsch Polka Opus 214 9. Kaiserwalzer Op.437 10. Accelerationen Waltz Opus 234 11. Du Und Du - Waltz Op.367 (1874) (Based On Themes From 'Die Fledermaus') 12. Pizzicato Polka (1870) 13. Tausend Und Eine Nacht-Walzer Op.346 14. Unter Donner Und Blitz Polka Opus 324 15. Wiener Blut Op.354 16. An Der Sch''nen Blauen Donau Op.314 17. Radetzky-Marsch Op.228 - Arr. Leopold Weninger

• Zubin Mehta Meets Mitsuko Uchida | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £2.96   |  Saving you £14.29 (840.59%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra play together with renowned pianist Mitsuko Uchida. Her interpretation of a wide range of repertoire has gained her a formidable reputation as a pianist who brings intellectual acuity and musical insight to her performances. Concert includes repertoire by Beethoven Schubert Bach and Stravinsky. A classical and musical delight.

• Johann Strauss Gala | DVD | (05/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Not only did 1999 mark the 150th anniversary of the death of Johann Strauss Sr., but the centenary of the passing of his son, Johann Strauss, "The Waltz King". To commemorate, on the evening of May 29, 1999 in Vienna's grand Heldenplatz almost 8,000 people gathered for a gala concert. This Wiener Philharmoniker performance was conducted by Zubin Meta (who had previously conducted the The Three Tenors, one of whom, José Carreras is here joined by soprano Andrea Rost for two duets from Strauss operettas). At 103 minutes this DVD offers 19 selections, but either there was an interval after just six pieces, or considering how rapidly it gets dark between "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka" and the "Overture" from Die Fledermaus, there has been some cutting. Given such a great orchestra and the wonderful setting, it would have been nice to see people dancing to what is after all, real dance music. Despite the static nature of the event, the music is still uplifting, moving even the staid Vienna audience to clap along by the finale of the rousing "Radetzky March".On the DVD: Other than some useful booklet notes there are no special features, and unlike most other Arthaus titles the sound is offered only in stereo Dolby Digital and PCM stereo. This is presumably due to the difficulties associated with outdoor acoustics and live recording which nearly prevented the concert going ahead. The anamorphically enhanced picture generally makes the most of the spectacular location, having a clarity in the close-ups such that it is virtually possible to count the hairs on the musicians heads.--Gary S. Dalkin

• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 | DVD | (28/01/2002) from £19.45   |  Saving you £0.54 (2.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Listening to Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony, here running some 88 minutes, is like scaling Everest. The summit doesn’t come into sight until well into the third, slow movement, then it’s not until the third approach via other vistas that we arrive with a clash of cymbals at the peak. En route there are diversions into Alpine meadows where it’s not too fanciful to suggest an Edelweiss is in flower. Zubin Mehta recorded Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony early on in his career but neither his name nor that of this orchestra has been much associated with the Austrian composer. It was therefore something of a gamble for ArtHaus to release this 1987 performance. Mehta pleads and cajoles his orchestra to give of their all, but ultimately the demands of the music and the unsympathetic acoustic of the Alte Oper Frankfurt defeat them. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at key moments isn’t always playing as one in a symphony where there are so many entries that require a unison response. One senses that the conductor’s forward pacing of the music takes its toll on the precision within the huge waves of sound Bruckner launches throughout the work. Anxiety brings with it the wrong sort of tension, so that when the music drops into one of the pastoral episodes there’s little sense that we’ve moved into gentler terrain despite the heroic efforts of the principal flautist to add a scenic diversion. --Adrian Edwards

• Verdi: La Forza Del Destino (C Major 708204) | Blu Ray | (27/11/2011) from £28.55   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Zubin Mehta with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Rehearsal | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £10.47   |  Saving you £10.78 (117.05%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Without being at all tricksy or showy, Arthaus Musik's In Rehearsal documentary series offers enthralling, profound insights into music-making of the highest calibre. In this case, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic in a rehearsal of Strauss' Till Eulenspiegel, those insights are sharpened by the knowledge that the orchestra is playing the piece for the very first time: the music of Richard Strauss had been banned in Israel until 1994 as a reaction to his involvement with the Nazi party. Thus, though the initial run-through is somewhat scratchy (and causes an hilariously neurotic hissy fit on the part of the principal horn player), the fact that the ensemble has no performance tradition of this piece means that every phrase has to be taken apart, explained, and put together again. We therefore see Mehta's ability to make a phrase more comic or fuller of pathos by simple nips and tucks of note lengths, and hear his reasons for shaping the piece the way he does. The documentary also offers a window on Mehta's genial but steely relationship with the orchestra: when he criticises the first flute (who is auditioning for a place in the orchestra), her terrified face is like a portrait by Francis Bacon. On the DVD: Mehta rehearses the orchestra in English, and the documentary has subtitles in French, German and Spanish. There are also four trailers for other Arthaus music videos. --Warwick Thomson

• Luciano Pavarotti - Pavarotti Forever | DVD | (31/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

• Le Nozze Di Figaro - Mozart | DVD | (28/11/2005) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Zubin Mehta conducts a performance of Mozart's 'Le Nozze Di Figaro' recorded at the Teatro Comunale in Florence.

• Joint Concert - Tel Aviv | DVD | (17/07/2001) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Some concerts are important simply as occasions: The Joint Concert--Tel Aviv was a celebration of reconciliation, a performance shared by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic that would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Zubin Mehta takes a massive band consisting of both orchestras through performances of Ben Haim's fascinating Psalm, Ravel's La Valse and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. The Ravel is particularly impressive--a work that can often slip into feyness or the too overtly sinister--here has a depth of complexity to its sound that saves it from either, and the sheer volume of the harps in a couple of passages gives the performance an interesting and individual strangeness. The Beethoven is monumental in its scale--rarely has the transition between the "Scherzo" and the "Finale" sounded so like Forster's goblins walking across the universe. Young and promising soloists--Viviane Hagner (violin) and Sharon Kam (clarinet)--play the Saint-Saens Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso with the Israel Philharmonic and the Weber Concertino with the Berlin Philharmonic; we grow so rapidly used to the sound of the orchestras playing together that their individual sounds strike us as almost delicate.On the DVD: The DVD has menus in English, French, German and Spanish and is presented in 4:3 screen ratio with PCM stereo sound, relegating a description of the importance of the event to the booklet. --Roz Kaveney

• European Concert 1995 | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded live at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence and features Beethoven's Fidelio Overture Dvorak's Slavonic Dance No.8 Stravinsky's Petruschka and more.

• Verdi - Messa Da Requiem | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £7.06   |  Saving you £15.92 (391.15%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Recorded live at the Sala Santa Cecilia Parco della Musica, Rome, 30 January 2005.

• Opera, Concert, Ballet - the Best of Classical Music on Tdk | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The Best Of Classical Music On TDK - Opera Concert Ballet 08

• Zubin Mehta In Munich - The Inaugural Concert With The Bayerische Staatsoper | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £12.75   |  Saving you £7.24 (56.78%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Inaugural Concert with the Bayerische Staatsoper.Tracks Include:Giovanni Gabrieli: 3 Sacrae SymphonieJoseph Haydn: Missa in Tempore Belli (Paukenmesse)Giuseppe Verdi: Quattro Pezzi Sacri

• Mozart: The Requiem from Sarajevo | DVD | (07/01/1998) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.97