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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 ...

Can’t wait to check out 'Abbado Conducts Mahler No. 1 & Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3' at home? Check out platforms and services with rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can pick what ...

It was with the sound of sleigh bells that I discovered the artistry of Claudio Abbado. Strange but true, and something I have thought a lot about since the recent death of the great Italian maestro.

Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it. By Joshua Barone A collection of 257 CDs and eight DVDs released by ...

The Lucerne Festival Orchestra did their late, great conductor Claudio Abbado proud in a powerfully affecting performance in Lucerne In the white lakeside concert hall in Lucerne, on a sparkling ...

In my hot youth, to borrow from Byron, the palm (or should it be baton?) for the title of most legendary living conductor undoubtedly belonged to Sergiu Celibidache. The Romanian had given up the job ...

When the frail Claudio Abbado reached the end of his Lucerne Festival concert in August last year, the once highly charismatic conductor looked so distant and transfigured that many in the audience ...

Claudio Abbado, an Italian conductor whose wide-ranging mastery of symphonic and operatic repertory and attention to detail drew comparisons to more famous maestros Carlo Mario Giulini, Arturo ...

Claudio Abbado, an Italian Conductor With a Global Reach, Is Dead at 80 Mr. Abbado led some of the world’s most revered musical institutions, including La Scala, the Vienna State Opera and the Berlin ...