Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Portrait du violoniste prodige Yehudi Menuhin : évocation de son parcours, de sa vie professionnelle et privée et de sa profession de foi, inspirée de la philosophie orientale.

Some concerts are important simply as occasions: The “Joint Concert Tel Aviv” was a celebration of reconciliation, a performance shared by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra that would have been inconceivable a few years earlier. Zubin Mehta takes a massive band consisting of both orchestras through performances of Ben Haim’s fascinating “Psalm”, Ravel’s “La Valse” and Beethoven’s “Fifth Symphony”.

Recorded live at the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, 26 December 2006

Les 4 et 6 juillet 2015, à Tel Aviv, la pianiste Khatia Buniatishvili et l'Orchestre philharmonique d'Israël sous la direction de Zubin Mehta s'associent dans cet enregistrement du deuxième concerto pour piano de Franz Liszt et du premier concerto pour piano de Beethoven. Extraits des concerts de Buniatishvili à Tel Aviv les 4 et 6 juillet 2015. Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major S125 1 • Adagio sostenuto assai - Allegro agitato assai 2 • Allegro moderato - Allegro deciso 3 • Marziale un poco meno allegro 4 • Allegro animato - Stretto Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major Op. 15 5 • I. Allegro con brio 6 • II. Largo 7 • III. Rondo, Allegro scherzando

Soloists Mitsuko Uchida on the piano, Zinovi Kaplan on the violin and Dudu Carmel on the oboe interpret the music of Bach ("Concerto for Violin and Oboe"), Beethoven ("Piano Concerto No. 4"), Stravinsky ("Pulcinella") and Schubert ("Rosamunde Overture"). They play under the able baton of maestro Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Special features include artist bios and a documentary about the life of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Filmed on tour at Berlin's Philharmonie, this account of the valedictory Ninth Symphony is an intense interpretation, expressing Bernstein's conviction that modern man had at last caught up with the message encoded in Mahler's last completed work. Having made his famous 1966 studio recording of "Das Lied von der Erde" in Vienna, Bernstein re-recorded this in Israel with the same searing subjectivity. René Kollo draws on the voice of a great Wagner tenor, while Christa Ludwig, the greatest exponent of the contralto songs at the time, is unbearably poignant in the final movement's fusion of elation and sadness.

"Four Ways to Say Farewell" is a personal introduction to Mahler and his Ninth Symphony, during which Leonard Bernstein is seen and heard rehearsing the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Filmed in 1971, this rehearsal was directed by Humphrey Burton,

Leonard Bernstein performs three of his own compositions with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra at the Philharmonic in Berlin.

This musical release from the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the conduction of Itzhak Perlman captures a live performance by the ensemble, recorded live at Mann Auditorium in Tel Aviv in March of 2010. Pieces performed in the concert include Beethoven's "Egmont Overture, Op. 84", "Symphony No. 6 in F Major", and others. ~ Cammila Albertson, Rovi