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With his very own “mysterious seductive power and legendary elegance”
(Le Monde), Claudio Abbado opened for the last time the LUCERNE
FESTIVAL in the summer of 2013. Only a few months later, the world had
to bid farewell to a monumental artist, humanist, great conductor and
orchestra founder. Even in the concert itself, documented here, lived a
moment of farewell, as the three great works performed tell of the
transience of life. The centerpiece of the Eroica is the funeral march
revealing “abysses of shattering dimension” - an “intense experience”
(Neue Zürcher Zeitung). This record, the last audio-visual
documentation of his work, captures once again the extraordinary
atmosphere of “vibrant emotionality” that always emerged when Abbado
created music with his “orchestra of friends”. |
