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Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)

Maurizio Pollini, Claudio Abbado, Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Béla Bartók: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 209 Mb | Total time: 51:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 415 371-2 | Recorded: 1977

Want to know what the two smartest musicians in Italy think of Bartók's first two piano concertos? Try this disc. With Maurizio Pollini at the piano and Claudio Abbado on the podium, the Hungarian modernist's concertos have never sounded so brilliant. Recorded in transparent stereo for Deutsche Grammophon in 1977, Pollini and Abbado's Bartók with the Chicago Symphony is searingly translucent in orchestrations that favor the winds, brass, and percussion over the strings and piano writing that encourages shock and awe virtuosity.
London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado - Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonien (1985)

London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado - Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonien (1985)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 04:06:11 | 1.17 Gb
Genre: Classical | Label: Polydor | Catalog: 415 353-2

No doubt, this is one of the pinnacles of Abbado and the LSO recording collaboration; these symphonies are presented with a keener sense of joy, bite and forward momentum, perfectly executed throughout by the orchestra. As supplement, the set brings the Scherzo that Mendelssohn orchestrated to become a new 3rd movement of the Symphony no.1, as well excellent performances of 3 overtures, including the famous Hebrides. Note that this is the first edition of the set; there's a recent one that comes with more overtures, that were originally released in a separate cd.
Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1998)

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Johann Sebastian Bach: Matthäus-Passion (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 607 Mb | Total time: 171:23 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Musicom | # MC 9802-04 | Recorded: 1997

Die zweichörige Matthäus-Passion, die bereits im posthumen Andenken der Bach-Familie als die «Grosse Bassion» bezeichnet wurde, gehört nicht nur zu Bachs umfangreichsten und gewichtigsten Kirchenkompositionen. Sie hat auch seit den spektakulären Wiederaufführungen Mendelssohns und Zelters im Jahre 1829 die neuzeitliche Wahrnehmung des Komponisten wesentlich geprägt.
Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Claudio Abbado, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala - Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia [2005/1972]

Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia (Claudio Abbado, Herman Prey, Teresa Berganza, Luigi Alva) [2005/1972]
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.80 Gb (DVD9) | 140 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Claudio Abbado’s youthful Beatle­cut marks the age of this film‚ still one of the better screen Barbieres if not absolutely the best. Jean­Pierre Ponnelle based it on his Scala stagings‚ but filmed it‚ as he always preferred‚ in studio and in lip­sync – more successfully than most. As a result‚ it looks and sounds very much fresher on DVD than contemp­orary videotapes.
Claudio Abbado, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Frederica von Stade, Francisco Araiza - Rossini: La Cenerentola [2005/1981]

Claudio Abbado, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Frederica von Stade, Francisco Araiza - Rossini: La Cenerentola [2005/1981]
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 7.40 Gb (DVD9) | 151 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

“Ponnelle's film of his La Scala staging is so imaginative and musically refined that it triumphs over the dubbing. Von Stade is an achingly beautiful Cinderella, Araiza a romantic Prince.” BBC Music Magazine
Claudio Abbado, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Eva Marton, Brigitte Fassbaender - Richard Strauss: Elektra (2006/1989)

Claudio Abbado, Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Eva Marton, Brigitte Fassbaender - Richard Strauss: Elektra (2006/1989)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) VBR | Deutsch (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 7.14 Gb (DVD9) | 109 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: Deutsch, English, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

Recorded at the Vienna State Opera house in 1989, this staging of Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s Elektra is one of the glories of live opera on film, deserving of eternal availability. The DVD picture has great clarity, despite the darkness of Hans Schavernoch’s set design. Other than the cliché of a huge statue head, toppled on its side, the set manages to be suitably representative of a decaying palace as well as an imposing, theatrical space, dominated by the mammoth body of the statue from which the head apparently dropped, draped with the ropes that seem to have enabled the decapitation. Sooner or later most of the characters cling to and twist around those ropes, an apt stage metaphor for the remorseless repercussions from the murder of Agammenon by his unfaithful wife Klytämnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus. Reinhard Heinrich’s costumes capture a distant era while sustaining a creepily modern look — part Goth, part homeless, part Spa-wear.

Claudio Abbado - Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1998)  Music

Posted by tirexiss at Jan. 22, 2020
Claudio Abbado - Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1998)

Claudio Abbado - Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1998)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 02:16:16| 579 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Catalog: 415 692-2

This is the Verdi opera that separates the casual admirer from the dyed-in-the-wool devotee. Once you put on this recording and listen half way through, you will feel that you have died and gone to Verdi Heaven, and you know what - for all intents and purposes, you have! A strong, strong story…a score that gets better by the minute…a cast and conductor to die for…it is truly a Masterpiece. This is It! This is Opera! Unfortunately, none of us in our lifetime will ever see on stage a company like this one. Cappuccilli, Mirella Freni, Ghiaurov, Jose Carreras…van Dam, Foiani, Savastano conducted by Claudio Abbado. Simply Awesome!

Claudio Abbado - Vivaldi - Wagner + Galas & Recitals (2023)  Music

Posted by delpotro at May 8, 2023
Claudio Abbado - Vivaldi - Wagner + Galas & Recitals (2023)

Claudio Abbado - Vivaldi - Wagner + Galas & Recitals (2023)
WEB FLAC (tracks) | 20:35:49 | 4,94 Gb
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon

Alongside our comprehensive limited and numbered edition of the legendary Claudio Abbado’s complete recordings for DG, Decca and Philips, we are in the process of issuing 16 digital albums covering the same repertoire. The penultimate release in this series of e albums, which are organised in alphabetical order of composer name, features Abbado’s Vivaldi, Wagner & Galas recordings and is available now.
Roberto Abbado, Metropoliten Opera Orchestra - Giordano: Fedora (2004/1997)

Roberto Abbado, Metropoliten Opera Orchestra, Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo - Giordano: Fedora (2004/1997)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 6.0 Gb (DVD9) | 109 min
Classical | Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Italiano, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese

Mirella Freni returns as a glamorous Russian princess involved with a dashing aristocratic spy (Plácido Domingo) in this production of Giordano’s Fedora from 1997 conducted by Roberto Abbado. The audience and critics were unanimous in their praise for her dramatic authority, power, warmth and brilliance of her voice and the partnership of Freni and Domingo was described as “operatic royalty.”
Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Beethoven: Symphonies (2013/2001) [Blu-Ray]

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker - Beethoven: Symphonies (2013/2001) [Blu-Ray]
4xBluRay | BDMV | MPEG-4 AVC Video / 23998 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps | 387 min+26 min (bonus) | 21,4+18,5+35,7+20,8 Gb
Audio1: German / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 24-bit | Audio2: DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 4245 kbps / 24-bit

BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1920x1080 / 6215 kbps / 29.970 fps | 387 min | 20,9 Gb
Audio: German / DTS / 6ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | EuroArts | Sub: German, English, French, Spanish, Italian

In February 2001 the Berliner Philharmoniker and Claudio Abbado were guests at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome with all Beethoven symphonies. Their success was overwhelming with standing ovations after each performance. “Abbado, a Furtwängler admirer in principle, seems ever more Italian, his tauter lyricism allied to a sense of forward movement influenced, we are told, by period practice. The surprise is not the Mediterranean luminosity and scrupulous attention to instrumental detail - one expects nothing less from this source - but the animating sense of line. The Seventh Symphony… knows precisely where it's going and why… The sense of joy present throughout is overwhelming by the close.” - Gramophone Magazine.