Claudio Abbado conducts Brahms, Schoenberg & Beethoven

This programme...was Claudio Abbado's final filmed recording. It shows him as fragile as he always was during his final years, and economical with gestures, but as wholly in command as ever...It's... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2014
Catalogue No: ACC20282
Label: Accentus Music

Brahms: Tragic Overture, Op. 81

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

Schoenberg: Lied der Waldtaube (from Gurrelieder)

Mihoko Fujimura (alto)
The Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

Schoenberg: Orchestral Interlude (from Gurrelieder)

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

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With his very own “mysterious seductive power and legendary elegance” (Le Monde), Claudio Abbado opened for the last time the LUCERNE FESTIVAL in the summer of 2013. Only a few months later, the world had to bid farewell to a monumental artist, humanist, great conductor and orchestra founder. Even in the concert itself, documented here, lived a moment of farewell, as the three great works performed tell of the transience of life. The centerpiece of the Eroica is the funeral march revealing “abysses of shattering dimension” - an “intense experience” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). This record, the last audio-visual documentation of his work, captures once again the extraordinary atmosphere of “vibrant emotionality” that always emerged when Abbado created music with his “orchestra of friends”.

Picture Format DVD: NTSC 16:9

Sound Formats DVD: PCM Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1

Region Code: 0 (weltweit)

Running Time: 100:12 min

Disc Format: DVD-9

FSK: 0

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October 2014

This programme...was Claudio Abbado's final filmed recording. It shows him as fragile as he always was during his final years, and economical with gestures, but as wholly in command as ever...It's a pity there's no supplementary material on the DVD, but the concert itself is undoubtedly a precious document.

19th June 2014

A theme of mortality lends the concert a chilling frisson, but Abbado’s strength of ideas and his ability to communicate them with such focus are the overriding qualities as you watch him in action here...These are superb performances, utterly gripping from beginning to end...Mihoko Fujimura sings with a rare and absorbing blend of compassion and dramatic power.

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