Zubin Mehta
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Live Recordings 1963-2006 (40th anniversary)
Helicon 9625 (12 CDs)
A 72 pages book (in English) with selection of newspapers archives, articles and photographs linked to the musical history of Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra.

CD 1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
1 Overture: Le nozze di Figaro 4:13
    Rec. December 1986

 Serenade in G major, K.525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'
2 Ι Allegro 5:51
3 ΙΙ Romance: Andante 5:26
4 ΙΙΙ Menuetto: Allegretto – Trio 2:01
5 ΙV Rondo: Allegro 3:03
     Rec. April 1986

Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868)
6 Overture: La scala di seta 6:11
     Rec. January 1977

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
7 Overture: La forza del destino 7:33
    Rec. December 1986

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 -1827)
8 Overture: Leonore no.3 14:02
     Rec. October 1975

Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
    Symphony no. 8 in B minor 'Unfinished' D.759
9 Ι Allegro moderato 14:33
10 ΙΙ Andante con moto 10:25
      Rec. December 1996

CD 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
    Concerto in F major for 3 Pianos K.242, 'London'
1 Ι Allegro 8:24
2 ΙΙ Adagio 8:58
3 ΙΙΙ Rondo. Tempo di Menuetto 5:36
   Arie Vardi / Yefim Bronfman / Radu Lupu (Pianos)
    Rec. January 1987

Franz Liszt (1811 – 1886)
    Piano Concerto no. 2 in A major
7 Ι Adagio sostenuto assai – Allegro agitato assai 6:40
8 ΙΙ Allegro moderato – Allegro deciso 7:58
9 ΙΙΙ Marziale un poco meno allegro –  3:46
10 ΙV Allegro animato – Stretto (molto accelerando) 1:30
     Yefim Bronfman (Piano)
       Rec. December 1996

Sergei Rachmaninov ( 1873-1943)
   Piano Concerto no.2 in C minor,op.18
11 Ι Moderato 11:09
12 ΙΙ Adagio sostenuto 12:15
13 ΙΙΙ Allegro scherzando 11:54
     Alicia de Larrocha (Piano)
       Rec. January 1987

CD 3

Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741)
   Concerto for 2 Violins in A minor, RV 522
1 Ι Allegro 3:42
2 ΙΙ Larghetto e spiritoso 4:12
3 ΙΙΙ Allegro 3:32
    Itzhak Perlman / Pinchas Zukerman (Violins)
     Rec. December 1996

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
   Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, in F flat Major, K.364
4 Ι Allegro maestoso 13:35
5 ΙΙ Andante 11:00
6 ΙΙΙ Presto 6:27
   Chaim Taub (Violin) / Daniel Benyamini (Viola)
   Rec. July 1968

Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
  Violin Concerto in A minor, op.53
7 Ι Allegro ma non troppo – 10:55
8 ΙΙ Adagio ma non troppo 10:42
9 ΙΙΙ Finale (Allegro giocoso) 9:38
   Itzhak Perlman (Violin)
    Rec. October 1971

CD 4

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
1 Alto Rhapsody, op.53 12:30 
    (Fragment from Goehte's "Harz journey in Winter" for contralto,male chorus and orchestra )
    Marjana Lipovšek (Mezzo-soprano)
    Prague Philharmonic Choir
      Rec. July 2000

2 Schicksalslied (Song of destiny), op.54 15:33
    Scottish National Orchestra Choir
     Rec. July 1972

    Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73
3 Ι Allegro no troppo 15:09
4 ΙΙ Adagio non troppo – L'istesso tempo, ma grazioso 8:47
5 ΙΙΙ Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino) – Presto ma non assai 5:09
6 ΙVAllegro con spirito 9:02   
    Rec. October 1977

CD 5

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 1897)
   Violin Concerto in D, op.77
1 Ι Allegro non troppo (Cadenza: Joseph Joachim) 22:26
2 ΙΙ Adagio 9:04
3 ΙΙΙ Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo vivace 7:42
   Pinchas Zukerman (Violin)
   Live recording, August 1971, Salzburg Festival, Austria

   Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra in A minor, op.102
4 Ι Allegro 16:04
5 ΙΙ Andante 7:04
6 ΙΙΙ Vivace non troppo – Poco meno allegro – Tempo Ι  8:31
   Isaac Stern (Violin) / Mstislav Rostropovich (Cello)
   Live recording December 1986, the Mann Auditorium, Tel-Aviv

CD 6

Richard Strauss (1864 -1949)
1 Till Eulenspiegel's merry pranks, op.28 14:40
    Rec. July 1996

Anton Bruckner (1824 -1896)
   Symphony no. 9 in D minor
2 Ι Feierlich, Misterioso  26:12
3 ΙΙ Scherzo – Bewegt, lebhaft – Trio, Schnell 11:02
4 ΙΙΙ Adagio – Langsam, feierlich 26:18
     Rec. May 1963

CD 7

Edward Elgar (1857–1934)
    Violin Concerto in B minor, op.61
1 Ι Allegro 16:42
2 ΙΙ Andante 12:10
3 ΙΙΙ Allegro molto – Cadenza (accompagnata: Lento) – Allegro molto 17:34
   Yehudi Menuhin (Violin)
   Rec. October 1982

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
    Violin Concerto no. 2 in D minor, op.63
4 Ι Allegro moderato 10:00
5 ΙΙ Andante assai 8:43
6 ΙΙΙ Allegro, ben marcato 6:00
   Isaac Stern (Violin)
   Rec. October 1975

CD 8

Camille Saint-Saёns (1835-1921)
   Cello Concerto no.1 in A minor, op.33
1 Ι Allegro non troppo 5:13
2 ΙΙ Allegretto con moto 5:16
3 ΙΙΙ Un peu moins vite 8:00
   Lynn Harrell (Cello)
   Rec. December 1986

Gustav Mahler (1860 – 1911)
   Five Rückert Lieder
4 Ι Ich atmet' einen linden Duft 2:32
5 ΙΙ Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder 1:14
6 ΙΙΙ Liebst du um Schönheit 2:50
7 ΙV Um mitternacht 6:18
8 V Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen 6:50
   Marjana Lipovšek (Mezzo-soprano)
   Rec. October 1995

Alban Berg (1885-1935)
    Three excerpts from 'Wozzek'
9 Ι "Soldaten, soldaten sind schöne Burschen!" (from Act1, Scenes 2 & 3) 6:56
10 ΙΙ "Und ist kein Betrug, in seinem Munde erfunden worden" (Act 3, Scene 1)4:30
11 ΙΙΙ Wozzek Drowns – Children's at play (from Act 3, Scenes 4 & 5) 7:40
Stella Richmond (Soprano)
       Rec. March 1972

Eric Zeisl (1905 – 1959)
12 Requiem Ebraico: 92d Psalm ( for baritone, soprano, alto, mixed chorus and orchestra) 16:30
     Sharon Rostorf-Zamir (Soprano)
     Bracha Kol (Mezzo-soprano)
     David Bizic (Baritone)
     The Philharmonia Singers
     Rec. April 2006

CD 9

Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
    The Planets, op.32
1 Ι Mars, the Bringer of War (Allegro) 7:00
2 ΙΙ Venus, the Bringer of Peace (Adagio-Andante-Animato-Tempo1) 7:44
3 ΙΙΙ Mercury, the Winged Messenger (Vivace) 3:54
4 ΙV Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity 7:35
   (Allegro giocoso-Andante maestoso-Tempo 1-Maestoso-Lento maestoso-Presto)
5 V Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age (Adagio-Andante) 9:13
6 VΙ Uranus, the Magician (Allegro-Lento-Allegro-Largo) 5:24
7 VΙΙ Neptune, the Mystic (Andante-Allegretto) 7:23
   With Women of the Tel-Aviv Philharmonic Choir
    Rec. July 1986

Ernest Bloch (1880 – 1959)
8 Schelomo (Hebrew Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra) 22:54
   Mischa Maisky (Cello)
   Rec. November 1990

CD 10

Antonin Dvořák (1841 – 1904)
   Three Slavonic dances op.72
1 B major 4:06
2 D minor 5:36
3 C major 3:17
    Rec. July 1996

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
   Le Sacred du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
4 Ι Part 1: The adoration of the earth 15:03
5 ΙΙ Part 2: The Sacrifice 16:26
    Rec. July 1997

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
6 Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), op.4 31:50
     Rec. April 2006

CD 11

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
   Messa  da Requiem 76:43
Requiem e Kyrie
1 Requiem aeternam 4:43
2 Kyrie eleison 3:13
Sequenza
3 Dies Irae 2:02
4 Tuba mirum 1:33
5 Mors stupebit 1:13
6 Liber scriptus - Dies Irae 4:30
7 Quid sum miser 3:35
8 Rex tremendae 3:22
9 Recordare 3:55
10 Ingemisco 3:20
11 Confutatis - Dies Irae 4:42
12 Lacrymosa 5:50
Offertorio
13 Domine Jesu Christe - 4:02
14 Hostias 5:04
15 Sanctus 2:31
16 Agnus Dei 4:40
17 Lux aeterna 6:00
Libera me
18 Libera me, Domine 2:05
19 Dies Irae 2:12
20 Requiem aeternam 2:38
21 Libera me, Domine 5:15
    Martina Arroyo (Soprano)
    Shirley Verret (Mezzo-soprano)
    Richard Tucker (Tenor)
    Bonaldo Giaiotti (Bass)
    The Tel-Aviv Philharmonic Choir (Chorus Master: Joseph Friedland)
    Live recording, July 1968, Bethlehem

CD 12

Noam Sheriff (b. 1935)
1 Festival Preludes ("Akdamot Le'Moed")
    Rec. December 1996

Josef Tal (1910 – 2008)
2 Symphony no. 2
    Rec. September 1983

Tzvi Avni (b. 1927)
Programme Music 14:05
3 Ι The Machine game
4 ΙΙ The dream of the broken mirror
5 ΙΙΙ Magritte – A dilemma?
    Rec. June-July 1983

Joseph Kaminski (1903 – 1972)
6 Symphonic Overture
     Rec. October 1982

Avner Dorman (b.1975)
   7-9 Spices, Perfums, Toxins!
   With PercaDu (Marimba and Percussion Duo)
   Rec. April 2006