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Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 is a work of intense emotions and huge orchestral scope that proves a challenge to even the greatest orchestras and conductors. "Nobody understands it... I wish I could conduct ...

This tribute to Abbado, who died in 2014, is neither one thing nor the other. Colleagues speak affectionately about his art, but not in enough depth to explain the mystique of the famously ...

Claudio Abbado conducting at the London Royal Festival Hall, 1983 Credit: Photo: Alamy Claudio Abbado, the Italian conductor, who has died aged 80, held four of the top musical posts in Europe: La ...

Claudio Abbado, one of the most sought-after conductors of his generation, died Monday in Bologna, Italy, at age 80. His death was announced by a spokesperson for Bologna's mayor, saying that it ...

Claudio Abbado, an Italian conductor whose wide-ranging mastery of symphonic and operatic repertory and attention to detail drew comparisons to more famous maestros Carlo Mario Giulini, Arturo ...

Claudio Abbado conducted the hand-picked virtuosos of the festival orchestra in a rendition of Mahler’s Ninth Symphony of astonishing depth and subtlety. Rating: * * * * * Mahler has been inescapable ...

Youth orchestras – and this time it was the turn of Claudio Abbado's Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester – come in greater numbers than their grown-up counterparts. The idea that they are growing into their ...

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

The way the great Claudio Abbado holds orchestra and audience in silence at the end of Mahler's final symphony is just extraordinary Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 is an epic symphony. It was written ...