Search Results: Claudio Abbado
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MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: Complete Orchestral Music: Bolero, Rhapsodie espagnole, Daphnis et Chloe, etc London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Trio / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/Jun/2002 ] "These strikingly empathetic performances shouldn't be missed, and the sound is outstanding." (BBC Music Magazine) |
STRAVINSKY
Rite of Spring / Firebird / Game of Cards / Petrouchka / Pulcinella London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 26/Mar/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "This is an excellent Stravinsky collection on all counts. Claudio Abbado's recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra represent the high-water mark of his career, and DG... |
JANACEK / HINDEMITH / PROKOFIEV
Sinfonietta / Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by C.M. von Weber / Chout (ballet suite) London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado DELETED [ Decca Legends / CD - released 26/Feb/2002 ] Made at the very peak of Abbado's form |
W. A. MOZART
Sinfonia Concertante / Flute & Harp Concerto Lucas Macias Navarro (oboe), Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet) Jacques Zoon (flute) / Orchestra Mozart (on period instruments) / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Archiv / CD - released 22/Apr/2012 ] "With soloists from his own Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado here demonstrates formidably their virtuosity and sensitivity." (Gramophone) |
BERG
Lulu-Suite / Altenberg Lieder / 3 Pieces for Orchestra Margaret Price (soprano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon The Originals / CD - released 5/May/2000 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Abbado makes it clear above all how beautiful Berg's writing is, not just in the Lulu excerpts but in the early Op 4 Songs and the op 6 Orchestral Pieces." (Three stars Penguin... |
SCHUMANN
Piano Concerto / Piano Quintet Maria Joao Pires (piano) / Chamber Orch. of Europe / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Apr/2000 ] "Mari Joao Pires takes centre stage in two major Schumann works featuring the piano, receiving near ideal support from both the COE and her chamber-music colleagues." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (July 2000) |
W. A. MOZART
Piano Concertos Nos. 14, 17, 21, 26 Maria Joao Pires (piano) / Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Duo / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] "Truly outstanding Mozart playing" (Gramophone) |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky Masterworks Edition [27 CD set] Martha Argerich, Claudio Abbado, Thomas, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emerson Quartet, Mirella Freni, Gidon Kremer, Nathan Milstein, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra [ Deutsche Grammophon / 27 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "Argerich has never sounded on better terms with the piano, more virtuoso yet engagingly human. Lyrical and insinuating, to a degree her performance seems to be made of the tumultuous elements themselves, of fire and ice, rain and sunshine"Gramophone |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1 / The Nutcracker (Ballet suite arranged for two pianos) Martha Argerich (piano) / Berliner Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado (with Nicolas Economou, piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 10/Oct/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "Argerich has never sounded on better terms with the piano, more virtuoso yet engagingly human. Lyrical and insinuating, to a degree her performance seems to be made of the... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Martha Argerich (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Nov/2004 ] "Lightning strikes as Argerich's Beethoven 3 is finally heard on disc" Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine January 2005 |
MAURICE RAVEL
Ravel: The Piano Concertos / Le Tombeau de Couperin / etc Martha Argerich (piano) Michel Baroff (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Jul/2001 ] "...it is clear from the initial whipcrack that it is to be exciting sonically, with an attractive orchestral crispness allied to bass strength." Gramophone |
BARTOK / BERG / DEBUSSY / NONO / PROKOFIEV / SCHOENBERG / etc
Maurizio Pollini: 20th Century Maurizio Pollini (piano) with Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 6 CD Box Set - released 14/Jul/2014 ] From the outset of his recording career, Maurizio Pollini has championed modern music - in benchmark accounts of Bartók, Boulez, Manzoni, Nono, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Webern, to which can be added his later recordings of Debussy and... |
BRAHMS
Piano Concertos Maurizio Pollini (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 25/May/2000 ] A timeless interpretation of the Brahms masterpiece! |
BARTOK
Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 / Two Portraits Maurizio Pollini (piano) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon Grand Prix / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - A recording of Bartók's demanding concertos that set new standards of precision and clarity in this repertoire. "Virtuosity goes with a sense of spontaneity. The Chicago orchestra,... |
LUIGI NONO
Como una ola de 'fuerza y luz / ...sofferte onde serene... / etc Maurizio Pollini (piano) Liliana Poli (soprano) Slavka Taskova (soprano) Bayerischen Rundfunks / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Oct/2008 ] Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono began music lessons with Gian Francesco Malipiero in 1941 at the Venice Conservatory |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Violin Concerto (with Encores by Geminiani, Kodaly, Liszt, Milstein, Mussorgsky, etc) Nathan Milstein (violin) / Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado / with Georges Pludermacher (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon Originals / CD - released 1/Apr/2006 ] "A highly distinguished performance, very well accompanied. Bright, clean and clear sound." - Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
SCHUMANN
Symphony No 2 / Overtures Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] "Abbado's metrical freedoms won't please all, but this exhilarating and passionate music-making certainly doesn't sound like a conductor's swansong." (The Times) |
CHOPIN / BEETHOVEN / BACH / LISZT / MOZART / etc
Pogorelich - Complete Recordings Ivo Pogorelich (piano) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 14 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2015 ] "What matters is not what he can do, for this is only the beginning. What matters is how many ideas occur to him and how much he can demand of the music and of himself. In short, he is an artist who must be taken seriously, a hugely talented pianist... |
MAHLER
Symphonies Nos 2 "Resurrection" & 4 Renee Fleming (soprano) / Berlin Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado [ Double Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Messa da Requiem (recorded in 2002) Roberto Alagna / Angela Gheorghiu / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Warner Classics DVD / DVD - released 6/May/2002 ] Claudio Abbado Conducts A Live Gala Performance Of Verdi's Requiem With Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu And The Berlin Philharmonic There could have been no more fitting event and no greater sense of occasion than the live performance of Giuseppe... |
