UE Mahler Interview with Zubin Mehta

[@soniaturchetta3420]

Wonderful interview with greatest Maestro! Very deep and enlightening ❤

[@photo161]

These many UE Mahler interviews are fascinating beyond description!

[@candy9986]

Very wonderful details. Thanks for sharing.

[@mangstadt1]

Zubin Mehta killed the First Symphony for me. He conducted the EU Youth Orchestra in London around 1989, and had me in tears in the third movement. I've heard it many times since then, and I can only enjoy it out of curiosity, but I'll never again experience what that orchestra and conductor gave me then in that performance. Mehta is a very electric conductor to watch. The closest I've seen live is Gustavo Dudamel.

[@Richard-b5r9v]

I find Mahler's music as absolutely Heavenly!!!

[@richardwilliams473]

Zubin Mehta has such a commanding look when he is conducting. He is an absolute pleasure to watch !

[@carlzend8091]

Hearing Mehta with or without a baton is always enlightening.

[@BalbirSingh-gr2qk]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@russellparratt9859]

Speaking of the 1st Symphony, 3rd movement, at 1:26 , I have to say that Mehta's recording of this with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra is the best I've heard.

[@pierocells]

Thanks! I love that story!

[@dankoppel6271]

After hearing the last thing Zubin Mehta says here, I would say Alma fully deserved all the backlash she got over the years.

[@srothbardt]

You can find a copy of the etching of the animals carrying the hunter on line. What Zubi says about Columbia Records and the recording of Mahler 9 with Walter. Very interesting, everything he goes into.😊

[@paulwoaert]

When Zubin Metha (at 12:37) says that he can hear in the 3rd movement of Mahler's 6th Symphony "a small harmonic progression" that sounds like Rachmaninov's sound and that he tries to justify his impression by the fact that Mahler had conducted in New-York in the presence of the russian composer, this is factually impossible since Mahler set foot in New York for the very first time in december 1907 and his Sixth Symphony was already composed in 1903-1904. The work was revised one last time in 1906 and premiered the same year under his own direction in Essen in Germany, so 3 or 4 years before this meeting between Mahler and Rachmaninov. And I therefore believe that Mehta is right to say (as if to correct himself) that it is a question of similarity. Especially since Mahler's 6th Symphony is innovative for a thousand reasons (it had a strong influence on Schoenberg, Berg and Webern who heard it with Mahler at the podium) where as Rachmaninov's work is conservative and resolutely turned towards 19th century romanticism.

[@musicamysticus]

Riveting interview and to think that this talented Parsi conductor has met Walter, amazing. I first heard Mahler 2 by Mehta on the Decca label and was bowled over by this interpretation. Maestro should come to Kuala Lumpur and conduct the MPO.

[@marisalouisa4518]

His speaking is like listening to Mahler's music itself.

[@changjiang001]

8:36 the best imitation I have ever seen!

[@annakimborahpa]

Zubie doobie doo - good interview.