Your Favourite Claudio Abbado Recording

[Petrushka]

Rarely can a great conductor display such sympathy for or provide such excellent recordings over such a huge span of the repertoire as Abbado. He seems to constantly reinvent himself and since his triumph over serious illness has devoted himself to his Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart.

Famed for his work in both new music, in Bach and Pergolesi and above all. perhaps, his beloved Mahler his recorded legacy continues to grow.

Which stand out in your collection?

[Threni]

I love this fantastic performance http://www.amazon.co.uk/Overture-Mar...9702263&sr=8-3

[EdgeleyRob]

Schubert complete symphonies on DG (Chamber Orchestra of Europe).Absolutely fantastic!.

[Alison]

The later set of Beethoven symphonies with the BPO
Mahler 9 Lucerne
Mendelssohn Symphonies and Overtures LSO
Ravel Orchestral works LSO

Much prefer his Brahms Symphones to Sir Simon's.

[Roehre]

My favourite Abbado -recordings are quite old: his first Brahms set with 4 different orchestras (on DGG, early 1970s) and his Tchaikovsky 5 (1972 IIRC, also on DGG)

[Mahlerei]

Where does one start?

Mahler 3 (Vienna and Berlin)
Tchaikovsky 2nd/4th symphonies
Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Bartok: Miraculous Mandarin
Verdi: Macbeth and Simon Boccanegra

If I had to rescue just one of those from a burning building it would be Boccanegra - surely one of the finest opera recordings ever made.

[Barbirollians]

Schubert 8 & 9, Mendelssohn symphonies , Brahms 1 , Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique , all the Lucerne Mahler, Simon Boccanegra and Macbeth, his legendary Carmen ...

[Mandryka]

I have shockingly little Abbado in my collection....not sure why, as he is not a conductor I've consciously tried to avoid.


I enjoy his 90s Brahms recordings; can't comment on the Boccangegra, which everybody seems to love, because I dislike the work.

His Mahler is much praised: what is the general view on his BPO recording of Symphony 3? I've listened to (and enjoyed) the earlier VPO account on spotify, but that's only available as part of the complete set.

[BBMmk2]

I lopve his Mahler on Euro Arts DVD, as I do his Berliner cycle! Hmmm, but an absolute favourite be difficult!! I love his Bach/Brandenburg's to!! Petroushka, where do we start!

[Bryn]

A favourite is out of the question, but what first alerted me to his significance was his recording of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. Then there was Nono's Como una ola de Fuerza with Pollini.

[HighlandDougie]

Prokofiev Symphony No 3 and Chout with the LSO, as well as the Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses - the Debussy Nocturnes with the Boston SO: all recordings I listen to regularly.

[Thomas Roth]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4, VPO - Stunning
Berg: Lulu-Suite, LSO - Sensous
Brahms: Symphonies, BPO - Drama

[silvestrione]

One favourite seems impossible, as people say. What comes to mind now are the Beethoven 9 with BPO from Sony (picked on BAL recently), the Stockhausen Gruppen and Kurtag disc with BPO, and Bach Brandenburgs because i was listening to them last night, and, above all, the Lucerne Mahler 9 on DVD (I revere the BPO Mahler 9 too, but the increased sense of a special occasion in Lucerne is a thing of wonder, as is the amount of lyricism he finds, in all four movements! Then there's the long, long, charged silence at the end...)

[makropulos]

My current favourite Abbado recordings are his Lucerne Mahler performances (most of them are only on DVD but No. 2 was issued by DG on CD as well). I particularly love Nos. 2, 3 and 4. I've just got No. 9 but haven't heard/seen it yet but am really looking forward to it - I'm saving it up for this weekend.

[Basil]

Already mentioned but I think it deserves another.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mendelssohn-5-Symphonies-7-Overtures/dp/B00005ONMP/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1299855316&sr=1-1