Zubin Mehta: A world full of music - Portrait on the conductor by Reiner E. Moritz (1998)

In a relaxed interview given at his home in Los Angeles, conductor Zubin Mehta looks back over his career and reflects on what makes his “mystical profession” such a unique phenomenon.
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Zubin Mehta is undoubtedly one of the great conductors of our time, equally at home in opera houses and on the concert platform. Following long and successful tenures as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1962-78) and New York Philharmonic (1978-91), he spent most of the 1990s working as a freelance conductor with the world's leading orchestras and opera companies. In 1998 he became Music Director of the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich. Over the years he has also dedicated time to the Israel Philharmonic, with whom he enjoys a special relationship.
“I am one of the few people that is blessed,” he says, “in that every morning when I wake up I touch genius - the genius of the music that I perform. Whether it’s Bach, Mozart, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky or Schoenberg, I am constantly in the presence of greatness.” He also tells his life story: from leaving his home in Bombay at the age of eighteen, already steeped in classical music on account of his forceful Parsi father - a great violinist, who, until very recently, still ran an American youth orchestra - to learning the tricks of his trade in Vienna and elsewhere.
Zubin Mehta’s great love of music and his charismatic personality inform this vibrant, music-filled program. He is seen in rehearsal and in extracts from orchestral and operatic performances, conducting pieces by composers ranging from Brahms to Bartók and Bizet. Among the archive material used is an unforgettable extract from Christopher Nupen’s film The Trout, showing the young Mehta playing double bass with his friends Barenboim, Zukerman, Perlman and du Pré.
Portrait by Reiner E. Moritz, 1998.
© Licensed by Digital Classics Distribution

[@monidipamitra4048]

A wonderfully talented genius of a composer.

[@missatrebor]

Thank you so much for uploading this excellent documentary. Zubin Mehta is truly an outstanding conductor and musician, I learned a lot from this video. I wish Zubin Mehta a very long and satisfying, wonderful life.

[@wocomoMUSIC]

Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@michelangelomulieri5134]

Grande Zubin!

[@stephanebelizaire3627]

BRAVO !

[@joseantonioaraujocosta5282]

This maestro is unique in his way of acting. He moves his baton like someone wielding a sword. He thus becomes more incisive. A hug for him. ................................JAAK

[@diliproy6455]

A. Great documentary on maestro Mehta.

[@RAKESHSINGH-hu3sh]

Great Zubin Sir

[@fairiesmagicmusic2613]

Happy Birthday Maestro! 🎂🎈

[@HDKOPPIKAR]

Wonderful!

[@wagennz]

Wow!!!!!!

[@henrikelanschuetzer4261]

SO TRUE! LUCKY YOU to have recognised + able to share! 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

[@pushpakanyalsawant4051]

Salutes to this Great Conductor. A Great Musician and Human he is. Proud of you Great Zubin. Salutes

[@jayantinaik6028]

FIND NO WORDS SEEING THE DOCUMENTRY

[@dmntuba]

Thanks so much for posting and sharing this video. Even though Zubin had already left LA Phil when I got to college those recordings were a very important part of my musical diet. I learned the orchestral rep from them and just sat back and enjoyed the wonderful sounds they produced. Thank you Maestro for the enjoyment and education, you will always hold a special place in my heart...and now years later I own the big LA/Zubin box👍

[@matthewfarmer2520]

This is great documentary on him, what he is like when he's not working just wants to chill. Then he gets back working on the stage with his orchestra. This video is great. My dad has some of his work even him conduct with the three tenors CDs.

[@tigerland50]

I’ve always heard of you since childhood. I knew you were indian was proud of you as a world renowned maestro and music conductor. it wasn't until now when I turned 81, that I dug out Tchaikovsky’s Concerto 1 on utube, and noticed your name, on your 80th birthday, in Israel..I happened to know Tchaikovsky’s particular composition from the 60s when it hit the charts on Radio London and found you.

[@joker3092]

Yes, The Castle, Steve McQueen's house from the sixties and early seventies. Also recognize his wife Nancy Kovacs,former actress,from Star Trek,among others..

[@zubinbalsara8414]

I was named after you so in some way we are tied to eternity.

[@luisadunsduns241]

Grandioso

[@MorganHayes_Composer.Pianist]

A very well put together interview . The two Brahms 2nd Symphonies (Böhm and later Mehta) was a nice touch. Fond recollections of televised conducting masterclasses from the mid 1980s/ Israel PO. Repertoire included ‘Rite of Spring’ and the Prague Symphony. It would be great if these would resurface on KZbin.

[@farrokhcooper8788]

I have known zubin from 1953 My aunt married zubin uncle I have many memories of him in Vienna in 1955 and 1956 at the Opera house I have lost touch with him I knew his parents mehli and bhulki

[@sportsmusiclover]

A Parsi Indian, goes to an Indian Jesuit school and grows up in a Hindu city. Only. In. India. is all I can say. But shame about the inept current government spreading hatred and division. Their time too will come. Zubin - I tried to catch your concert at the Royal Albert hall in London only to be interrupted by protestors outside. To see you lead a brilliant orchestra was a source of immense joy.

[@dinkarrao1]

country of my birth moved to Usa 60 years i love what you said

[@ravinayar4314]

It's not inept..it merely calls an end to exploitation of the hindu faith. Note there has never been any persecution of jews..why ?. Neither of Muslims or Christians. But they mercilessly slaughtered converted..and poured contempt on the profound philosophy of hinduism. Your comment merely reflects that

[@BalbirSingh-gs2xi]

It is really wonderful interview about really mystical profession of music and conducting.May God bless him with long healthy life.Happy New Year Sir.

[@jasonstearns2666]

When I was in Valencia about 10 years ago and was only the REHEARSAL Scarpia there until the rough voiced and artistically one sided Bryn arrived, we worked together for about two weeks. I know that you were astonished at my singing and artistry. You even asked me to be your Alberich in the ill-fated Florence Ring....which got canceled. As intense and exciting as those two weeks were...both for you and for me...you and I never met again. I never could understand that. I was....and still am...the best baritone in the world today. Some of the greatest conductors and singers in history have remarked to me...to my face...that I am the best singer in my repertoire today. You have worked with the very best all your career. We could have had so much exciting operatic music making together. But the Jealous Domingo must have heard about your interest in me and immediately canceled me out. He did that to so many singers whom he feared might upstage him in some way. And now, I sit. Forgotten. but still able to sing and act like the greatest baritones in history. I have always wondered why you have ignored me....because you knew that immediately. Your first words to me were..."Who are you? Why don't I know you?" etc etc. For two delicious weeks, we were best friends....and then....nothing. I have always felt very sad about that.

[@AlbertCori-rx1qz]

India dio un virtuoso en zubin mehta

[@ravinayar4314]

Note he never looks at a score..it's all in his head

[@alinasamukiene3622]

Me to

[@AlbertCori-rx1qz]

Hermosa casa de steve McQueen ahora de zubin

[@Anuj10_01]

20:07 onwards 🔥

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Traducir al español

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