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New, 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…
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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Debussy: La Mer
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Eugene Ormandy
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…
Mahler: Symphony No. 5
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1
Recommended
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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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. 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…