Claudio Abbado
Biography
“Listening is more important than speaking.”
The Italian conductor Claudio Abbado (1933–2014) was one of the later 20th century’s finest and most beloved musicians.
Abbado studied in his home city of Milan, first conducting La Scala in 1960, and received encouragement from Leonard Bernstein. In 1989 he was selected as Karajan’s replacement to direct the Berliner Philharmoniker, and held the post until 2002. He subsequently set up several acclaimed orchestras. His late appearances conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra are legendary.
Current album
Claudio Abbado Conducts Mozart
Artists Claudio AbbadoRelease Date: 04/27/2018
This new 5-CD edition presents selected works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in recordings by the Berlin Philharmonic under Claudio Abbado. In addition to Symphonies 23, 25, 28, 29, 31, 35, and 36, the attractive set includes the Masonic Funeral Music and the Great Mass in C minor with Barbara Bonney and Arleen Auger. The recordings date from the 1990s and thus from Abbado's time as principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. All recordings were made with outstanding sound quality in the famous Berlin Philharmonic.
