Zubin Mehta - Symphonies & Symphonic Poems (23CD) (CD Box Set)

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This 23 CD box set bears witness to Mehta'€™s work in the recording studio for Decca between May 1965 (Bruckner'€™s Ninth Symphony with the Wiener Philharmoniker) and July 1980 (Tchaikovsky'€™s Capriccio italien with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra).

The bulk of the recordings date from the 1970s, and the period of white-hot inspiration when Mehta achieved and consolidated his international reputation. There are textbook performances here: the orchestral conflicts found Mahler'€™s Second Symphony, for example, or the visionary build-up of internal tension in the final movement of the same composer'€™s Third; the highly individual manner in which Mehta plumbs the depths of Beethoven'€™s Seventh, and the cycle of Schubert symphonies; the macabre echo of the Trauermarsch in Mahler'€™s Fifth, and the rational and yet sensuous quality of Mehta'€™s responsiveness to Strauss.