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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 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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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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Lucerne Festival Orchestra - The First 5 Years
Recommended
Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini (piano) & Rachel Harnisch, Eteri Gvazava (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
Karita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (mezzo), Thomas Moser (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (bass)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Swedish Radio Choir & Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Claudio Abbado
Abbado, a Furtwängler admirer in principle, seems ever more Italian, his tauter lyricism allied to a sense of forward movement influenced, we are told, by period practice. The surprise is not... — 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…
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
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Recorded 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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Offer, José Carreras & Claudio Abbado - Frankfurt Concert 1992
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A 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
