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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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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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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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New, Offer, The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir
Rossini: La Cenerentola
Frederica von Stade (Cenerentola), Francisco Araiza (Don Ramiro), Paolo Montarsolo (Don Magnifico), Claudio Desderi (Dandini), Laura Zannini (Tisbe), Margherita Guglielmi (Clorinda), Paul Plishka (Alidoro)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado
Ponnelle's film of his La Scala staging is so imaginative and musically refined that it triumphs over the dubbing. Von Stade is an achingly beautiful Cinderella, Araiza a romantic Prince. — More…
Maurizio Pollini: Piano Concertos
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Karl Böhm, Claudio Abbado
In these five performances we see why Pollini is one of the world's greatest pianists. He combines a phenomenal technique with a poetic temperament. Wonderful. — More…
Claudio Abbado conducts Schoenberg & Mahler
Recorded live Großer Musikvereinssaal, Vienna, April 24-25, 2006
Juliane Banse (soprano)
Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
…let's start by praising the filmed introduction to Pelleas, with its abundance of apt paintings from the period, and the way the film-makers extend playwright Maeterlinck's original idea of... — More…
Europakonzert 1996 from Mariinsky Theatre
Live from the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 1 May 1996, directed by Brian Large.
Kolja Blacher (violin), Anatoly Kocherga (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
Mahler: Symphony No. 9
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Claudio Abbado
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado