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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - DVD Performance
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Award Winner
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This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, DVD of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - DVD Performance
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Schubert
Rachel Harnisch (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sara Mingardo (alto), Javier Camarena (tenor), Paolo Fanale (tenor) & Alex Esposito (bass)
Orchestra Mozart Bologna & Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado
the presentation is suave and refined, the camerawork standard for this style of concert performance (ideal for those intent on studying the late conductor's technique). — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 21/22 August 2010
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
there's no-one...who lifts the phrases so beguilingly (and without a baton) as does Abbado. You'll never see a first movement done with bigger smiles or more wide-eyed wonder, nor the poco adagio... — More…
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The Richard Strauss Collection
Nadja Michael (Salome), Falk Struckmann (Jochanaan), Peter Bronder (Herodes), Iris Vermillion (Herodias) & Matthias Klink (Narraboth), Eva Marton (Elektra), Brigitte Fassbaender (Klytämnestra), Cheryl Studer (Chrysothemis), Franz Grundheber (Orest), James King (Aegisth), Goran Simic (Attendant...
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José Carreras & Claudio Abbado - Frankfurt Concert 1992 RecommendedA Gala Concert Recorded Live from the Alte Oper Frankfurt
Jose Carreras (tenor), Martin Haselböck (organ), Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus, Prague Philharmonic Choir, Toelzer Boys’ Choir
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, February 2010, First Choice (DVD)
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1
RecommendedRecorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Centre Lucerne, 12 August 2009
Yuja Wang (piano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
...if the composer had died after writing this, you'd imagine - from Claudio Abbado's performance with his good-looking once-a-year superband, at least - that his mission on earth was already... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2017, Also Recommended
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Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Plácido Domingo (Riccardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Renato), Katia Ricciarelli (Amelia), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Ulrica), Reri Grist (Oscar), William Elvin (Silvano), Gwynne Howell (Samuele), Paul Hudson (Tom), Francis Egerton (Un Giudice), John Carr (Un servo)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House,...
Abbado motivates this traditional Otto Schenk staging using the Swedish setting. Domingo is a marvellously vivid Gustavo, Cappuccilli an implacable Anckarström, while Grist steals the soprano... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, DVD of the Month
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