Claudio Abbado
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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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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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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Nutcracker Suite
RecommendedMartha Argerich (piano), Nicolas Economou (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Tchaikovsky's First Concerto has already appeared twice on disc from Martha Argerich in complementary performances: live and helterskelter on Philips with Kondrashin (reviewed under Rachmaninov),... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2014, First Choice
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Building a Library, November 2022, Recommended 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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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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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Yelena Obraztsova (mezzo soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
Abbado's performance of Alexander Nevsky culminates in a deeply moving account of the tragic lament after the battle (here very beautifully sung by Obraztsova)...The chorus is as incisive as... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Orchestral
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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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New. Scriabin: Le Poème de l'Extase, Op. 54 / Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture, Th 42
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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$56.75