Search Results: Claudio Abbado
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PROKOFIEV
Symphonies 1 & 3 / Romeo & Juliet / Chout (with works by Janacek & Hinemith) London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] Orchestral showpieces such as those grouped here were among the most obvious beneficiaries of the advances in recording technique pioneered by Decca from the late 1950s onwards. Works which may have seemed dauntingly complex to an earlier generation... |
JANACEK / HINDEMITH / PROKOFIEV
Sinfonietta / Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by C.M. von Weber / Chout (ballet suite) London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado DELETED [ Decca Legends / CD - released 26/Feb/2002 ] Made at the very peak of Abbado's form |
W. A. MOZART
Sinfonia Concertante / Flute & Harp Concerto Lucas Macias Navarro (oboe), Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet) Jacques Zoon (flute) / Orchestra Mozart (on period instruments) / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 22/Apr/2012 ] "With soloists from his own Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado here demonstrates formidably their virtuosity and sensitivity." (Gramophone) |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Abbado in Lucerne (concert & documentary) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "For some the main attraction of Abbado in Lucerne will be the great Italian maestro conducting Debussy at the 2003 Lucerne Festival. For others it's the documentary, with its footage of some of the last century's greatest conductors in action: every... |
MAHLER
Introducing Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "the recorded sound of this Abbado-handpicked orchestra is something special. So is the playing, which has a full-throated, epic splendour from start to finish, under the unobtrusive command of Abbado's conducting." (Classic FM) |
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. |
BERG
Lulu-Suite / Altenberg Lieder / 3 Pieces for Orchestra Margaret Price (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 5/May/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Abbado makes it clear above all how beautiful Berg's writing is, not just in the Lulu excerpts but in the early Op 4 Songs and the op 6 Orchestral Pieces." (Three stars Penguin... |
SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto / Piano Quintet Maria Joao Pires (piano) / Chamber Orch. of Europe / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Apr/2000 ] "Mari Joao Pires takes centre stage in two major Schumann works featuring the piano, receiving near ideal support from both the COE and her chamber-music colleagues." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (July 2000) |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 14, 17, 21, 26 Maria Joao Pires (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Duo / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Truly outstanding Mozart playing" (Gramophone) |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky Masterworks Edition [27 CD set] Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado, Thomas, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emerson Quartet, Mirella Freni, Gidon Kremer, Nathan Milstein, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / 27 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "Argerich has never sounded on better terms with the piano, more virtuoso yet engagingly human. Lyrical and insinuating, to a degree her performance seems to be made of the tumultuous elements themselves, of fire and ice, rain and sunshine"Gramophone |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 / The Nutcracker (Ballet suite arranged for two pianos) Martha Argerich (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado (with Nicolas Economou, piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Oct/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "Argerich has never sounded on better terms with the piano, more virtuoso yet engagingly human. Lyrical and insinuating, to a degree her performance seems to be made of the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Martha Argerich (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Nov/2004 ] "Lightning strikes as Argerich's Beethoven 3 is finally heard on disc" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine January 2005 |
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 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 25 Martha Argerich (piano) / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] "the tidy sheen of the Orchestra Mozart's young professionals tells us plenty about his genius as an orchestral trainer. And his rapport with the mercurial Argerich...is audible in every bar" The Times, 24th January 2014 |
