Mehta conducts Holst, Williams & Strauss $21.98

“...a bracing and ferocious rendition of Mars, with the Los Angeles brass (especially the prominent tuba) blazing like so many war cannons. In Venus, Mehta coaxes warm, sweet sounds from the high strings in the more ethereal passages. The same can be said for Neptune, with the angelic tones of the Los Angeles Master Chorale perfectly balanced in the aural picture...Decca's engineers make excellent use of the (unidentified) hall, giving the end of Saturn a room-filling impact...The brief suite from John Williams' score for Close Encounters of the Third Kind cuts from the opening "neutron" chord to the arrival of the mothership at the film's end. This modernist-style music is right up Mehta's alley, and he jumps at the chance to show off this "difficult" yet popular fare."
Victor Carr Jr., Classics Today

Format: CD
Release Date: 1997 (recorded 1968, 1971, 1978)
Label: London (Decca)
Length: 125:34
Contents:
Gustav Holst: The Planets
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra
John Williams: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic

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