Conductors – Claudio Abbado – Retrospective
Maurizio Pollini piano | Prague Radio Choir | Andrea Rost soprano | Alan Titus baritone | Ramón Vargas tenor | Larissa Diadkova mezzo-soprano | Stella Doufexis mezzo-soprano | Enrico Facini tenor | Elizabeth Futral soprano | Lucio Gallo baritone | …Read more
Berliner Philharmoniker, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado
What made Claudio Abbado stand out was his unpretentious, noble character, his democratic understanding of music making and his ability to celebrate the live moment on stage. Claudio Abbado empathized with his musicians. In order to be able to maintain contact with each individual during the conducting, he usually conducted from memory. “I am Claudio – for everyone” quickly became Abbado’s oft-quoted statement.
Region code
0
Picture format NTSC 16:9
Sound format
PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
dts 5.1
Release June 18, 2021
Total running time 662 mins
Details running time DVD 1: 67 mins; DVD 2: 94 mins; DVD 3: 88 mins; DVD 4: 122 mins; DVD 5: 84 mins; DVD 6: 107 mins; DVD 7: 100 mins
Subtitles English, German, French
No. of discs 7
Recording 1989-2016
DVD 1: Hearing the Silence – Sketches for a Portrait by Paul Smaczny
DVD 2: Claudio Abbado conducts Verdi
DVD 3: Claudio Abbado conducts Verdi: Messa da Requiem
DVD 4: Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven Symphonies 3 & 9
DVD 5: Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler Symphony No. 9
DVD 6: Claudio Abbado conducts Mahler and Beethoven at Lucerne
DVD 7: Claudio Abbado conducts Brandenburg Concertos
Repertoire
Mahler: Adagio for Symphony No. 10
Verdi: excerpts from „Un ballo in maschera“, „Don Carlos“, „Rigoletto“, „La Traviata“, „Falstaff“; Messa da Requiem
J. Strauss: Maskenfest-Quadrille
van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 “Choral”; Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 “Eroica”; Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major; Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
J. S. Bach: Brandenburg Concertos