But before we got a chance to assess whether the living legend Claudio Abbado made the grade in his performance of Bruckner Five, we had Dame Mitsuko Uchida's dreamy swim through the Schumann Piano ...

Mozart did not write the Requiem as despairing funeral music for his impending death. Rather, the piece proclaims eternal light and redemption. Together with a first-class quartet of soloists, the ...

Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it. By Joshua Barone A collection of 257 CDs and eight DVDs released by ...

His baton kept a tight but flowing beat as his left hand, at the end of a thin wrist, went its own way, deftly sculpting phrases and so often asking for less, less, less. Claudio Abbado sat before the ...

This seems to be the first sample of previously unreleased performances by Claudio Abbado to emerge in the wake of the Italian conductor’s death in January at the age of 80. It brings together ...

One could feel the special connection between the players and the smiling but now somewhat fragile-seeming conductor Claudio Abbado in Monday's concert. Claudio Abbado and Lucerne Festival Orchestra ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. This time, there is no mystical silence when the last notes die away. The audience at Lucerne’s KKL ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A collection of 257 CDs and eight DVDs released by Deutsche Grammophon offers the breadth of Abbado’s approach, and its legacy. By David Allen The Mahler Chamber Orchestra’s musicians, split across 14 ...

But before we got a chance to assess whether the living legend Claudio Abbado made the grade in his performance of Bruckner Five, we had Dame Mitsuko Uchida's dreamy swim through the Schumann Piano ...

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