It is one of composer George Benjamin's favourite notes in the whole orchestral repertoire. At the Lucerne festival in Switzerland last week, he told me that a single tuba note in the first movement ...

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 ...

Mahler, Symphony No 2 "Resurrection," LFO, Claudio Abbado, EuroArts, DVD Mahler, Symphony No 4 and Alban Berg "Seven Early Songs," Renée Fleming, BPO, Claudio Abbado ...

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This tribute to Abbado, who died in 2014, is neither one thing nor the other. Colleagues speak affectionately about his art, but not in enough depth to explain the mystique of the famously ...

Claudio Abbado conducted the hand-picked virtuosos of the festival orchestra in a rendition of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony of astonishing depth and subtlety. Rating: * * * * * Mahler has been inescapable ...

Mahler's final Adagio either works totally, or not at all: the long silences will play their part tonight. Abbado's three-weeks-a-year relationship with his handpicked festival players has been giving ...

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Bavarian and Latvian Radio Choirs/Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly (Accentus Music, DVD) Riccardo Chailly succeeded Claudio Abbado as music director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in ...

Claudio Abbado, one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation, died Monday in Bologna, Italy, at age 80. His death was announced by a spokesperson for Bologna's mayor, saying that it ...