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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
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Alfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini (piano) & Rachel Harnisch, Eteri Gvazava (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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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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[La valse] is extremely fine, as indeed are the Daphnis Suites, where the playing is superbly accomplished in its understated virtuosity and Chailly is marvellously acute in his understanding... — 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…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative and there is a fine team of soloists, in... — More…
Debussy: La Mer
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Eugene Ormandy
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 & Selected Songs from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Lucerne Festival In Summer 2015
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
[The Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s] magnificent playing here is suffused with the memory of their creator, Claudio Abbado, and re-energised with the new-found dynamism of the visionary Latvian…Nelsons... — More…
