Claudio Abbado – a celebration

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Grammaphone is celebrating Claudio Abbado. Abbado was one of the best. He died in 2014.

Born and raised in Milan, Abbado studied with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. He made his La Scala debut in 1960 and was the house’s music director from 1968 to 1986. He headed the Vienna State Opera (1986-91), London Symphony Orchestra (1979-87) and succeeded Karajan at the helm of the Berlin Philharmonic (1989-2002). He founded the European Union Youth Orchestra, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and re-established the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and is closely associated with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
Claudio Abbado | gramophone.co.uk





 
I was a big HvK supporter and for a time, if a DG album did not list von Karajan as conductor, I would probably pass it by. Abbado filled the podium quite nicely and I have grown to like his conducting style as much as or in some cases more so than von Karajan's...
Here is an excerpt of Abbado conducting the BPO in Stravinsky's Firebird Suite:
 

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