ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Gurrelieder Siegfried Jerusalem, Sharon Sweet, Marjana Lipovšek, Philip Langridge / Wiener Philharmoniker [Vienna Philharmonic], Claudio Abbado [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] The reception at the first performance was overwhelming: the ovation lasted fifteen minutes; the composer's denigrators were silenced, and many members of the audience wept. |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS
Europakonzert 1994 from Berlin [Recorded live in 2000] BLU-RAY Daniel Barenboim (piano) / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2014 ] New release of the EUROPAKONZERT Blu-ray Disc series. The EUROPAKONZERT annually celebrates the founding of the Berlin Philharmonics on 1st May 1882. Recorded at the Staatstheater Meiningen, in the middle of Germany, 5 years after the German... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' BLU-RAY Eteri Gvazava / Anna Larsson / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "It's different having best friends together. Everyone is there to enjoy making music, to take pleasure, to play with enthusiasm, with passion. They are prepared to do any crazy thing I ask them for the sake of the music. To fly, to walk through... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1-7 (Blu-ray) Eteri Gvazava (soprano) / Anna Larsson (contralto) / Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano) / Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / 4 Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Aug/2011 ] "Has there ever been a suaver, more transparent Mahler performance or one in which everything stays so beautifully in tune? ... Abbado's music-making is a celebration of the purest joy." The Gramophone Magazine |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Boston Symphony Orchestra: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Previn, Claudio Abbado. William Steinberg, Michael Tilson Thomas, Leonard Bernstein, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon Conductors & Orchestras / 57 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ] The BSO's 1969-70 season was a landmark year for the orchestra with the arrival of distinguished conductor William Steinberg and the start of their recording legacy with DG. The label immediately reinforced its commitment to the BSO. |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Discovering Masterpieces - Brahms - Violin Concerto (Documentary & performance recorded in 2002) Gil Shaham (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado (cond) [ Medici Arts / Ovation / DVD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "The poetic and dramatic charge is electric… Musicians always know when something special is happening and a look Abbado flashes Shaham during the first movement says it all." BBC Music Magazine |
BRAHMS
Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77 (with Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World') [recorded in 2002] BLU-RAY Gil Shaham (violin) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado (cond) [ EuroArts BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "A superb concert containing a top recommendation for the Dvorák New World. As great a performance as has ever been given." (MusicWeb June 2011) |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (Blu-ray) Giuliano Carmignola, Michala Petri, Alois Posch, Reinhold Friedrich, Ottavio Dantone and others / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 15/Apr/2022 ] In November 2004 a new name caused listeners to prick up their ears on the international orchestral scene: under Claudio Abbado's artistic guidance the Orchestra Mozart came into being. |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (recorded April 2007) Giuliano Carmignola, Michala Petri, Alois Posch, Reinhold Friedrich, Ottavio Dantone / Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] In November 2004 a new name caused listeners to prick up their ears on the international orchestral scene: under Claudio Abbado's artistic guidance the Orchestra Mozart came into being. |
J.S. BACH
Brandenburg Concertos 1 - 6 Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado [ Medici Arts / Euro Arts DVD / DVD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "The excitement is palpable, reflected in smiling glances between the players, bodies swaying through musical suspensions, a sense of uninhibited joy." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
J.S. BACH
Brandenburg Concertos 1 - 6 BLU-RAY Giuliano Carmignola (violin) / Orchestra Mozart / Claudio Abbado [ Medici Arts / Euro Arts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Apr/2009 ] Blu-Ray "The playing is stylish throughout: ornaments are apt, all the more telling for their restraint; trills are paced to match mood, languid in slow movements, sparkling in allegros." (BBC Music) |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / WAGNER
Jonas Kaufmann Sings Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Claudio Abbado [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 11/Sep/2009 ] "His beautiful phrasing and controlled singing in the "Winterstürme" shows why he has become the most sought-after tenor of his generation, and is a highlight of this exciting new release." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Recital |
BEETHOVEN
Introducing Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Documentary and full performance) Karita Mattila (soprano), Violeta Urmana (contralto), Thomas Moser (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass) / Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "An exceptionally good introduction to the Choral Symphony, succinctly providing insight into the music and a sense of how it confounded the expectations of Beethoven's contemporaries." (Five Stars BBC Music) |
BEETHOVEN / TCHAIKOVSKY / VERDI / MAHLER / BACH / etc
Claudio Abbado - A life dedicated to music [8 DVD set] Karita Mattila, Violeta Urmana, Thomas Moser, Barbara Bonney, Andrea Rost, Alfred Brendel / Various orchestras, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / 8 DVD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2016 ] This DVD Box will be released in honour of Claudio Abbado's 80th anniversary on June 26th. It contains an extensive collection of concert recordings and the documentary Hearing the Silence, capturing the outstanding work and repertoire of this... |
RACHMANINOV / BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / CHOPIN / LISZT / KHACHATURIAN / etc
Lazar Berman: The Complete Sony Recordings Lazar Berman (piano) / London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony Classics Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2016 ] "These can be considered classic interpretations." (Gramophone March 2004) |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.3 in A minor 'Scottish' / Overtures London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 1/Oct/1985 ] Original recordings recorded St. John's, Smith Square, London, 1984 |
PROKOFIEV
Symphonies 1 & 3 / Romeo & Juliet / Chout (with works by Janacek & Hinemith) London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ Decca SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] Orchestral showpieces such as those grouped here were among the most obvious beneficiaries of the advances in recording technique pioneered by Decca from the late 1950s onwards. Works which may have seemed dauntingly complex to an earlier generation... |
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Abbado in Lucerne (concert & documentary) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts Music DVD / DVD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] "For some the main attraction of Abbado in Lucerne will be the great Italian maestro conducting Debussy at the 2003 Lucerne Festival. For others it's the documentary, with its footage of some of the last century's greatest conductors in action: every... |
MAHLER
Introducing Mahler: Symphony No. 5 Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 21/Dec/2010 ] "the recorded sound of this Abbado-handpicked orchestra is something special. So is the playing, which has a full-throated, epic splendour from start to finish, under the unobtrusive command of Abbado's conducting." (Classic FM) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (recorded in 2004) Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 10/Sep/2011 ] G - "If anything the mystery will be intensified as one watches Abbado apparently drawing exactly what he wants from well over a hundred musicians by some extra-sensory means. It is fascinating to watch." MUSICWEB.CO.UK |