Lucerne Festival Orchestra

Big Boxes: Riccardo Chailly’s Mostly Terrific Stravinsky Edition (Video Review)

David Hurwitz

The Bottom Line: Yet another celebration of Stravinsky’s 50th deathiversary, […]

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Abbado’s Bruckner A & Z

Jens F. Laurson

A new recording of Claudio Abbado conducting Bruckner symphonies at the Lucerne Festival? Of Symphonies 1 and 9, no less, bookending Bruckner’s output—a beginning and

Filling in the Gaps: A Ho-Hum Stravinsky Premiere

David Hurwitz

Don’t worry about the not-so-gaping hole in your complete Stravinsky

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Big Boxes: Abbado’s Frustrating Mahler

David Hurwitz

Abbado’s best Mahler recordings were his earliest, made in Chicago,

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Abbado’s Not Much Better Bruckner Ninth

David Hurwitz

Claudio Abbado usually has been a satisfying Bruckner conductor, but then his previous recordings were mostly made with the Vienna Philharmonic, a great Bruckner orchestra.

Karajan–The Complete Recordings, Vol. 1

Jed Distler

To celebrate what would have been Herbert von Karajan’s 100th birthday on April 5, 2008, EMI has gathered together all of the conductor’s recordings for

Mahler: Symphony No. 5/Abbado DVD

David Hurwitz

The camera kindly offers a close-up view of exactly what is wrong with this decent but ultimately unmemorable performance of Mahler’s Fifth. At the climax

Mahler: Symphony No. 2/Abbado

David Hurwitz

An orchestra of all-stars does not an all-star orchestra make, evidently. This hand-picked ensemble assembled for the 2003 Lucerne Festival, liberally spiked with famous names