Search Results: Claudio Abbado
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (recorded in 2004) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] G - "If anything the mystery will be intensified as one watches Abbado apparently drawing exactly what he wants from well over a hundred musicians by some extra-sensory means. It is fascinating to watch." MUSICWEB.CO.UK |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, August 2006) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 16/Jul/2007 ] G :- "This is a valuable recording because it "is" filmed, and by people who know the music...this film is a very valuable contribution to "how" we listen to Mahler." MusicWeb |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 7 in E minor (recorded live in 2005) BLU-RAY Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Jul/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 |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (recorded in 2005) Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 19/Jun/2006 ] G :- "One day the Lucerne concerts will be appreciated for their role in developing Mahler performance practice" (MusicWeb Recording of the Month June 2006) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (recorded live in 2010) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Accentus Music / DVD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] Gramophone Award Finalist 2011 (DVD Performance) - "This is as mind-blowing experience - a Mahler Ninth as great as any I've heard" International Record Review, April 2011 |
GUSTAV MAHLER / LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Claudio Abbado and Maurizio Pollini at Lucerne Festival (recorded 2004) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, with Maurizio Pollini (piano) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 16/Sep/2022 ] Fostering young musical talents was particularly dear to Claudio Abbado's heart. Abbado founded the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in 2003. In this orchestra, he united the world's best young musicians from youth orchestras. |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 / Ruckert-Lieder [recorded in August 2009] BLU-RAY Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Euroarts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2010 ] Abbado combines the orchestral work (which features a solo soprano in the finale) with Mahler's "Rückert-Lieder". Soloist in both works is the Czech soprano Magdalena Kozena. |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto no 3 (coupled with Ravel-Piano Concerto in G) Martha Argerich (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 5/May/2000 ] "all done with the most engaging reckless abandon." (Gramophone) |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: The Piano Concertos / Le Tombeau de Couperin / etc Martha Argerich (piano) Michel Baroff (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] "...it is clear from the initial whipcrack that it is to be exciting sonically, with an attractive orchestral crispness allied to bass strength." Gramophone |
BARTOK / BEETHOVEN / BERLIOZ / BRAHMS / DVORAK / BRUCKNER / etc
Masters of Classical Music: 20 documentaries on 4 Blu-ray Discs Martha Argerich (piano) Gil Shaham (violin) / Pierre Boulez, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink [ Euroarts Blu-ray / 4 Blu-ray Box Set - released 29/Sep/2017 ] Masters of Classical Music is an informative and captivating guide to twenty of the most important works in music history. Outtakes from the original scores within the documentaries, assist the viewer by making it easier to follow the music and to... |
BRAHMS
Piano Concertos Maurizio Pollini (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 25/May/2000 ] A timeless interpretation of the Brahms masterpiece! |
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BEETHOVEN
Europakonzert 2000 from Berlin [Recorded live in 2000] BLU-RAY Mikhail Pletnev (piano) Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Eike Wilm Schulte / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] For this newly released EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc all recordings were lovingly restored and converted to High Definition video. The 10th EUROPAKONZERT was performed in the newmillennium |
FRANZ SCHUBERT / W. A. MOZART
Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Schubert (recorded 2012) BLU-RAY Rachel Harnisch, Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mingardo, Javier Camarena, Paolo Fanale & Alex Esposito / Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado [ Accentus Music Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Sep/2016 ] A "touching and magnificent reunion" (Der Standard). The public and press enthusiastically celebrated the long-awaited return of Claudio Abbado to the Salzburg Festival in 2012. The conductor brought with him Mozart's youthful Mass K. 139, the... |
PERGOLESI
Stabat Mater / Salve Regina / Violin Concerto in B flat major Rachel Harnisch, Sara Mingardo & Julia Kleiter, Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] "The Stabat Mater is the main work, in a striking performance that manages to be at once devotional and operatic. There's a fiery austerity in the conducting and string playing...The real treat here is the Violin Concerto, played with casual sensual |
MAHLER
Symphonies Nos 2 "Resurrection" & 4 Renee Fleming (soprano) / Berlin Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado [ Double Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Messa da Requiem (recorded in 2002) Roberto Alagna / Angela Gheorghiu / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 6/May/2002 ] Claudio Abbado Conducts A Live Gala Performance Of Verdi's Requiem With Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu And The Berlin Philharmonic There could have been no more fitting event and no greater sense of occasion than the live performance of Giuseppe... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un ballo in maschera (recorded live Covent Garden in 1975) Royal Opera House / Placido Domingo, Piero Cappuccilli, Katia Ricciarelli, Elizabeth Bainbridge / Claudio Abbado (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 15/Jul/2017 ] [Domingo] is enjoying himself as a devil-may-care ruler with a twinkle in both eye and voice...[Cappuccilli] offers a masterclass in what we really mean by 'Verdi baritone'." Gramophone Magazine |
LUGWIG van BEETHOVEN / W. A. MOZART / JOHANNES BRAHMS
The Rudolf Serkin Edition Rudolf Serkin (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado, with Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) [ Deutche Grammophon / 9 CD Box Set - released 19/Jun/2020 ] "Serkin was an artist who shaped the world's conceptions of the "Viennese school," and there's much to be gained by tracing the evolution of his style over his long life.' (AllMusic.com) |
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GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 1 (with Prokofiev - Piano Concerto No. 3) [recorded in 2009] BLU-RAY Yuja Wang (piano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Bluray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Claudio Abbado has realised a dream with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. The orchestra consists of an exclusive ensemble of handpicked musicians like Kolja Blacher and Sebastian Breuninger, Natalia Gutman, Clemens Hagen and Jens Peter Maintz. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Yuja Wang (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 17/Mar/2011 ] "She tackles the popular "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No 2" with an ease that betrays her deep familiarity with the material; but it's the confident way she deals with the challenging "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini"...that most impresses... |
