[ Decca ABC Australian Eloquence / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Monday 9 April 2007
A thrilling collection of Overtures and Preludes (with some popular orchestral pieces thrown in for good measure) from Zubin Mehta. As a showman of the best variety, his recordings remains one of the Decca catalogue's richest legacies, and more than half of this collection is being released on CD for the first time.
BERNSTEIN: Candide
ROSSINI: William Tell, The Silken Ladder, La gazza ladra
WEBER: Oberon, Der Freischütz
VERDI: La Forza del Destino, I vespri siciliani, La Traviata: Acts I & III
SUPPE: Poet and Peasant
J. STRAUSS: Die Fledermaus
BIZET: Carmen: Acts 1 & 4
MOZART: Le nozze di Figaro; Eine kleine Nachtmusik
MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne & Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream
DVORAK: Carnaval
BEETHOVEN: Egmont