Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado was an Italian conductor. He served at various times as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera, founder and director of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, music director of European Union Youth Orchestra, and principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra.
Known for
- Great Performances (1971)
- Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
- Kulturplatz (2004)
- imagine… (2003)
- The Barber of Seville (1973)
- Macbeth (1979)
- The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)
- Peter and the Wolf: A Prokofiev Fantasy (1993)
- To Play and to Fight (2007)
- Conducting Mahler (2002)
- Claudio Abbado: Hearing the Silence (2003)
- Khovanshchina (1989)
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1-6 (2008)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem - Claudio Abbado (2013)
- Lucerne 2007: Abbado conducts Mahler 3rd Symphony (2009)
- José Carreras & Claudio Abbado - Frankfurt Concert 1992 (2006)
- Abbado in Berlin - The First Year (1991)
- Beethoven, Mozart & Brahms Piano Concertos (1979)
- Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Op. 45 (1997)
- Europakonzert 1991 from Prague (1991)