Claudio Abbado Opera Edition

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Product Description ------------------- Claudio Abbado’s career with Deutsche Grammophon stretched back over more than four decades. He was as much a man of the theatre as he was one of the greatest of all late 20th century symphonic conductors and many of his opera s remain unsurpassed in the catalog. • Limited Edition 59-CD set presenting the entirety of Claudio Abbado’s opera s on Deutsche Grammophon • 20 complete operas + aria collections, overtures and two gala recitals • Featuring the orchestras with whom Abbado was most closely associated: Orchestra Mozart, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, London Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Philharmoniker, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Lucerne Festival Orchestra • Booklet presents new notes by James Jolly (Editor-in-Chief of Gramophone magazine) • Complements DG’s Claudio Abbado Symphony Edition HIGHLIGHTS • Abbado’s La Scala set of Macbeth, with Cappuccilli and Verrett; one of 6 accled Verdi complete operas on the set • Debussy’s Pelléas at Mélisande with the Wiener Philharmoniker • The celebrated 1984 with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe of Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims; one of 4 Rossini complete operas in this set alongside a sparkling album of Overtures • An inspired 1990 performance of Schubert’s little-known Fierrabras with Cheryl Studer and Thomas Hampson • Strikingly fresh performances of Mozart’s two greatest operas, Don Giovanni, with the COE (1997) and Die Zauberflöte with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra (2005) • Abbado’s last opera recorded live with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra for Decca in 2010 of Beethoven’s Fidelio • Aria collections recorded with Bryn Terfel, Robero Alagna, Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Netrebko • The 1998 Berlin Gala featuring Mirella Freni and Marcelo Álvarez Review ------ “A producer defined his special gift as a sense of ‘absolute pulse’ -- more precisely, an unerring sense of the right and natural tempo relations in a piece that could give shape and meaning even to the most seemingly amorphous of works, and within that a supple life to the individual musical phrases that no contemporary has equalled . . .” THE GUARDIAN P.when('A').execute(function(A) { A.on('a:expander:toggle_description:toggle:collapse', function(data) { window.scroll(0, data.expander.$expander[0].offsetTop-100); }); }); About the Artist ---------------- Claudio Abbado’s career with Deutsche Grammophon stretches back over more than four decades. In that time he made innumerable s which still remain unsurpassed on record – classics right from the start. Abbado inspired levels of commitment and communication from his musicians that resulted in performances and s that stand the test of time. Abbado was as much a man of the theatre as he was one of the greatest of all late 20th century symphonic conductors. Opera was central to all his orchestral posts, with three great composers forming the major pillars of his recorded opera legacy: Mozart, Rossini and Verdi. Throughout his recorded legacy, the listener feels a real sense that characters are thought through in great detail and Abbado conducts with an obvious love for the music but also with a flexibility informed from the drama of the moment. Claudio Abbado The Opera Edition is testimony to an extraordinary operatic legacy and a memorial to a truly great maestro. See more ( javascript:void(0) )