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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A Salute to Carmen: Gala from Berlin 1997
Waldbühne 1996: An Italian Night
Works by Beethoven, Liszt, Scriabin and Nono
The maestro's inaugural concert with the Berlin...
London Symphony Orchestra
Toscanini, Furtwängler, Karajan, Menuhin, Abbado
With Claudio Abbado and Gil Shaham
With Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo ...
With Barbara Bonney and Bryn Terfel – Berliner ...
Gala Concert from the Alte Oper with the Wiener...
