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© Peter Fischli
Abbado’s statement of intent has been borne out in a lifetime of revelatory performances and recordings. Familiar music, whether by Beethoven, Mussorgsky or Debussy, has been given fresh colour, clarity and rhythmic vitality, while neglected scores by Verdi, Rossini and others have taken their rightful place in the repertoire again. Anti-autocratic, profoundly human and supremely musical, Abbado has striven to place music within the wider artistic context as well as championing 20th-century figures from the giants of the Second Viennese School to the leading composers of modern Italy and making his personal exploration of the symphonic world of Mahler.
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Europakonzert 2000, Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan Me...
Waldbühne 1996: An Italian Night – Berliner Phi...
Works by Beethoven, Liszt, Scriabin and Nono
The maestro's inaugural concert with the Berlin...
London Symphony Orchestra
Toscanini, Furtwängler, Karajan, Menuhin, Abbado
Berliner Philharmoniker, Lucerne Festival Orche...
Lucerne Festival 2003
Europakonzert 2002, Palermo
With Christine Schäfer, Mirella Freni, Marcelo ...
With Barbara Bonney and Bryn Terfel – Berliner ...
A portrait in several voices
Gala Concert from the Alte Oper with the Wiener...
The new chief conductor of the Berliner Philhar...
Based on a book by Claudio Abbado
