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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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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Martha Argerich (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
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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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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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[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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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Video Performance
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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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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Vidéo
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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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Lucerne Festival Orchestra - The First 5 Years
RecommendedAlfred Brendel, Maurizio Pollini (piano) & Rachel Harnisch, Eteri Gvazava (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Building a Library, December 2014, DVD Choice
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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…
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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…
