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Lucerne Festival Orchestra - The First 5 Years
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Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini (piano) & Rachel Harnisch, Eteri Gvazava (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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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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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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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Recorded live at the Concert Hall of KKL Luzern, Lucerne Festival, August 2017
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
As a piece of filmmaking, it is utterly conventional…Chailly’s clear, unfussy gestures and limited range of facial expressions are all registered…As of August 2017, when this concert was recorded,... — More…
Debussy: La Mer
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Eugene Ormandy
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Eteri Gvazava (soprano), Anna Larsson (contralto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orféon Donosiarra, Claudio Abbado
It's good to have this incandescent performance back. If you have the CDs, it’s still worth getting the DVD to see Abbado in action, and to hear the Resurrection in surround sound. — More…
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Anna Larsson (contralto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Choir Vienna & Tölzer Knabenchor, Claudio Abbado
…Mahler three of peerless concentration and shape. ...Claudio Abbado never forces the expressivity of the superband Lucerne Festival Orchestra; yet every colour and texture shines through.... — More…