Blu-Ray Video, Lucerne Festival Orchestra (orchestra)
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This captures much of the peerless tone-colour, shape, drive and above all those hushed dynamics of [the] performance, awarded what feels like an infinite silence at the end...Abbado's pacing... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, DVD of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, DVD Award Winner
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This performance curtails the silences in the interests of the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado’s linear approach...This is Bruckner sunny side up, lending a molto espressivo bloom to the string... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - DVD Performance
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 2
Mao Fujita (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Performances & Documentaries
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It would be easy to make a journalistic meal out of the way a drained Abbado holds his hand on his heart in the everlasting-seeming half minute's silence at the end of this Mahler Six. But there's... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2013, First Choice (blu-ray)
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Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Recorded live at the Concert Hall of KKL Luzern, Lucerne Festival, August 2017
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
Together they make a classy sound, and these are classy performances. Chailly’s Mendelssohn is affectionate, reflecting his time as principal conductor at the Leipzig Gewandhaus…Manfred is treated... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Vidéo
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 & Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Martha Argerich (piano), Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Video: Performance & Documentaries
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Mahler: Symphony No. 5 & Selected Songs from 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn'
Lucerne Festival In Summer 2015
Matthias Goerne (baritone)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Andris Nelsons
[The Lucerne Festival Orchestra’s] magnificent playing here is suffused with the memory of their creator, Claudio Abbado, and re-energised with the new-found dynamism of the visionary Latvian…Nelsons... — More…
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Andris Nelsons conducts Brahms
Lucerne Festival in Summer 2014 Opening Concert
Sara Mingardo (alto)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Choir, Andris Nelsons
What a spine-tingling DVD this is...Nelsons is his own man; this was no stand-in performance, and the level of concentrated artistry here is phenomenal...the entire performance testifies to... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Ricarda Merbeth, Juliane Banse, Anna Lucia Richter, Sara Mingardo, Mihoko Fujimura, Andreas Schager, Peter Mattei, Samuel Youn
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Latvian Radio Choir, Orfeón Donostiarra, Tolzer Knabenchor, Riccardo Chailly
His approach is characteristically thoughtful...As you would expect from a handpicked band, the orchestral playing is consistently glorious. The contribution of the combined choirs is authoritative... — More…
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Claudio Abbado conducts Mozart & Beethoven
Juliane Banse (soprano), Bruno Ganz (narrator), Christine Schäfer (soprano)
Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado