Claudio Abbado, Wiener Philharmoniker – Mahler – Symphony No.4 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 58:02 minutes | 2,92 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon
After hearing most of Abbado’s Mahler, early and late, I had formed the opinion that he steadily improved, moving from caution to a real and deep understanding of Mahler’s world. But just in case there were some early gems, I went back to this Fourth Syms. recorded in Vienna in 1978 (it can also be had in a bargain twofer with an almost equally impressive Sym. #2 from Chicago).
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Name: Claudio Abbado’s Last Concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker
Released: 2016
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Claudio Abbado
Сomposer: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
Artist: Deborah York (soprano), Stella Doufexis (mezzo-soprano), Damen des Chors des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Berliner Philharmoniker
Label: © Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Recorded: Philharmonie Berlin 18, 19, 21 May 2013
Quality: Blu-ray Audio/Video
Duration: 01:36:07 +
Video#1: MPEG-4 AVC 950 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Video#2: MPEG-4 AVC 20999 kbps / 1920*1080i / 29.970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: German DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3709 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: German LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitle: Japanese
Size: 45.46 GB
This marks the second anniversary of Claudio Abbado’s death on 20 January 2014 aged eighty. The set – on CD and Blu-ray (audio and video) – captures Abbado’s final concert with the Berliner Philharmoniker in May 2013. It was the end of a treasured partnership that bore plentiful and remarkable fruit.
Abbado first conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1966, the start of a unique relationship that was to last nearly half a century. Succeeding Herbert von Karajan into the biggest job in the world of classical music Abbado was elected by the members of the orchestra as chief conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker serving from 1990 to 2002. He became only the fifth chief conductor in the orchestra’s history. Following his resignation from that post Abbado would return to the orchestra as a guest. The relationship between orchestra and Abbado remained cordial and these appearances as guest were clearly events to savour.
In May 2013 there was a series of three concerts at the Philharmonie which turned out to be Abbado’s last with the Berliner Philharmoniker. They were described as a “triumph” by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Abbado’s programme comprised two key works from composers both close contemporaries: Felix Mendelssohn’s enchanting A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hector Berlioz’s progressive Symphonie fantastique.
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