Search Results: Claudio Abbado
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Symphonies, Serenades and Overtures Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, with Marjana Lipovsek (contralto) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2014 ] The 5 CD BRAHMS box of Symphonies, Serenades and Overtures, is generally recognized as containing the best modern recordings of his symphonic oeuvre. "Brahms would be the top of my Abbado picks," critic Martin Kettle has written, "partly but not only... |
PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture / The Tempest, Op. 18 / Romeo & Juliet - Fantasy Overture / Marche slave, Op. 31 Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] "The brilliant, full-blooded recording is excellent, only just short of demonstration standard" (Gramophone 2000) |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Te Deum Op. 22 Francisco Araizo (tenor) / London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, European Community Youth Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Europakonzert - 30th Anniversary Blu-ray Edition Andreas Ottensamer (clarinet) Magdalena Kožená (mezzo) Vadim Repin (violin) etc / Berliner Philharmoniker [Berlin Philharmonic] [ EuroArts Blu-ray / 31 Blu-ray Box Set - released 21/Jan/2022 ] An absolute must-have for collectors and fans of the annually celebrated event. Many renowned conductors have chosen to perform with the Berliner Philharmoniker over a time period of 30 years. |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 3 (recorded at the Lucerne Festival, 2007) BLU-RAY Anna Larsson (alto) / Arnold Schoenberg Choir / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jan/2010 ] G : - "This is easily the greatest, most concentrated, most moving and beautifully played performance of this massive work I've yet encountered" (Keith). This DVD was a Staff Pick DVD for 2010. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (recorded at the Lucerne Festival, 2007) Anna Larsson (alto) / Arnold Schoenberg Choir / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] G - "One of the greatest Mahlerians alive today, Abbado conducting Mahler's Third Symphony with his own Lucerne Festival Orchestra is not to be missed...Anna Larsson is ethereal in the fourth movement's Nietzschian text, the finale a sublimely... |
PROKOFIEV / BERG / TCHIAKOVSKY
Claudio Abbado conducts Prokofiev, Berg & Tchaikovsky Anna Prohaska (soprano) / Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela / Claudio Abbado [ Accentus Music DVD / DVD - released 16/Feb/2011 ] "Aided by superb camera work, we see him, gaunt but energised, bringing sophistication and élan to Prokofiev's monster canvas, conjuring magic and fragrance from the Berg and driving the Pathétique to the edge of the abyss." (The Financial Times) |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete) BLU-RAY Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray - released 28/Jan/2022 ] This exclusive box containing the complete Beethoven Symphonies performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker includes a special multi-angle feature: each disc offers sequences from the "conductor camera" showing the maestro from his musicians perspective |
BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 (Rec 2001) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 3/Sep/2007 ] G :- "Vigorous and magnificent, furiously direct - but at the same time blessed with an astounding richness of detail.." Stuttgarter Zeitung |
MAHLER / VERDI / BEETHOVEN / BACH
Claudio Abbado Berliner Philharmoniker / Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Orchestra Mozart [ EuroArts Music DVD / 7 DVD Box Set - released 18/Jun/2021 ] What made Claudio Abbado stand out was his unpretentious, noble character, his democratic understanding of music making and his ability to celebrate the live moment on stage. Claudio Abbado empathized with his musicians. In order to be able to... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Entree / CD - released 24/Mar/2003 ] Lasting over an hour and a quarter, this massive five-movement work, composed in 1902, begins unusually with a funeral march and contains the heart-achingly beautiful Adagietto made famous in the film Death in Venice. |
Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence - Sketches for a Portrait by Paul Smaczny [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 13/Mar/2011 ] "An excerpt from a concert with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1968 shows that all the characteristics of his style were already there in his thirties." (BBC Music) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Nov/2001 ] "This was one of Abbado's biggest recording projects with the orchestra of which he was music director, and remains a richly rewarding legacy." (Gramophone) |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS
Europakonzert 1994 from Berlin [Recorded live in 2000] BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] New release of the EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc series. The EUROPAKONZERT annually celebrates the founding of the Berlin Philharmonics on 1st May 1882. Recorded at the Staatstheater Meiningen, in the middle of Germany, 5 years after the German... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' BLU-RAY Eteri Gvazava / Anna Larsson / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "It's different having best friends together. Everyone is there to enjoy making music, to take pleasure, to play with enthusiasm, with passion. They are prepared to do any crazy thing I ask them for the sake of the music. To fly, to walk through... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-7 (Blu-ray) Eteri Gvazava (soprano) / Anna Larsson (contralto) / Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "Has there ever been a suaver, more transparent Mahler performance or one in which everything stays so beautifully in tune? ... Abbado's music-making is a celebration of the purest joy." The Gramophone Magazine |
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BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (with Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World') [recorded in 2002] BLU-RAY Gil Shaham (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado (cond) [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "A superb concert containing a top recommendation for the Dvorák New World. As great a performance as has ever been given." (MusicWeb June 2011) |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Violin Concerto Op 77 / Double Concerto Gil Shaham (violin) Jian Wang (cello) Berliner Philharmonic / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "The American violinist Gil Shaham takes on Brahms's two concertos featuring the violin. It is an apt coupling because it celebrates the composer's (occasionally strained)... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (Blu-ray) Giuliano Carmignola, Michala Petri, Alois Posch, Reinhold Friedrich, Ottavio Dantone and others / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 15/Apr/2022 ] In November 2004 a new name caused listeners to prick up their ears on the international orchestral scene: under Claudio Abbado's artistic guidance the Orchestra Mozart came into being. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (recorded April 2007) Giuliano Carmignola, Michala Petri, Alois Posch, Reinhold Friedrich, Ottavio Dantone / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] In November 2004 a new name caused listeners to prick up their ears on the international orchestral scene: under Claudio Abbado's artistic guidance the Orchestra Mozart came into being. |
