Browse: Claudio Abbado (conductor)
This page lists all recordings conducted by Claudio Abbado.
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Abbado in Lucerne radiates clarity, wisdom and vision, qualities that over the years one had come to expect of him. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2014
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Award Winner
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2015, Orchestral Finalist
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Symphonic Music
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Bartók - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 RecommendedMaurizio Pollini (piano), Shlomo Mintz (violin)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Bartók and Pollini were made for one another - the bite and energy and odd restraint of these masterworks is ideally caught. Mintz does full justice to the Two Portraits. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Winner - Concerto
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Classical Instrumental Solo Recording
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 25
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
Thi is a really fine performance [of K503], with impeccably judged tempos in all three movements, and great playing from the Orchestra Mozart...[in the D minor Concerto] Argerich's playing is... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building A Library, January 2022, Recommended Recording - K466
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Beethoven & Berg: Violin Concertos
RecommendedIsabelle Faust (violin)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
listening to these wonderful performances side by side is cathartic...The journey is vividly delineated from the outset of the Berg. With Abbado drawing sonorities from his first-rate orchestra,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th February 2012
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Orchestral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Concerto
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
RecommendedElena Zaremba (mezzo-soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Building a Library, July 2019, Proms BaL Recommendation
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Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051
Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord), Michala Petri (recorder) & Reinhold Friedrich (trumpet)
Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado
The excitement is palpable, reflected in smiling glances between the players, bodies swaying through musical suspensions, a sense of uninhibited joy… The playing is stylish throughout: ornaments... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Baroque Instrumental
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Mozart: Die Zauberflöte, K620
RecommendedRené Pape (Sarastro), Erika Miklósa (Königin der Nacht), Dorothea Röschmann (Pamina), Christoph Strehl (Tamino), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Papageno), Julia Kleiter (Papagena), Georg Zeppenfeld (Sprecher), Kurt Azesberger (Monostatos), Caroline Stein (Erste Dame), Heidi Zehnder (Zweite Dame), Anne-Carolyn...
This is certainly the most desirable version using modern instruments to appear since Solti's second recording in 1990. That said, its characteristics are rather nearer William Christie's 1995... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2006, Disc of the month
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Record Review, December 2006, Critics Disc of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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[Abbado] reaches extraordinary heights…every bar surges with energy, thrust, warmth of tone, miraculous detail in even the faster passages and…a huge joy in living, which must leave every sensitive... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st June 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
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Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72 RecommendedJonas Kaufmann (Florestan), Nina Stemme (Leonore), Falk Struckmann (Pizarro), Christof Fischesser (Rocco), Rachel Harnisch (Marzelline), Christoph Strehl (Jaquino), Peter Mattei (Don Fernando)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Claudio Abbado
The real star of this performance...is the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, in whose hands the music seems to glow from within. The playing is thrilling throughout, with Claudio Abbado caressing every... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th June 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Opera
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Stravinsky Ballets
RecommendedTeresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Ryland Davies (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, October 2002, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2021, Recommended Recording (complete ballet)
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