Abbado’s artistic vision and confidence resounded loud and clear throughout a lifetime of revelatory performances and recordings. Familiar music, whether by Beethoven, Mussorgsky or Debussy, found fresh color, clarity and rhythmic vitality, while neglected scores by Verdi, Rossini and others took their rightful place in the repertoire. Anti-autocratic, profoundly human, and supremely musical, Abbado strove to situate music within its wider artistic context while championing 20th-century figures from the giants of the Second Viennese School to the leading composers of modern Italy and undertaking a deep personal exploration of the symphonic world of Mahler.
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Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela –...
Gala concert of the Lucerne Festival 2005
Lucerne Festival 2004
2004 Lucerne Festival Opening Concert
Berliner Philharmoniker
With Claudio Abbado and Mikhail Pletnev
