Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and a performance of Debussy - 'La Mer: Suite From Le Martyre De Saint Sebastien'. This programme also includes a documentary... more
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Actor(s): Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Genre: Musicals & Music Films - Classical
Classification: Exempt
Running Time: 1 hour 59 minutes
Plot: Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and a performance of Debussy - 'La Mer: Suite From Le Martyre De Saint Sebastien'. This programme also includes a documentary 'From Toscanini To Abbado - The History Of The Lucerne Festival Orchestra'.
Release details
DVD Region: Region 0 (All Regions)
Studio(s): EUROARTS MUSIC INTERNATIONAL; SELECT MUSIC & VIDEO DISTRIBUTION
Release date: 02/08/2004
No of Discs: 1
Catalogue No: 2053469
Barcode: 0880242534699
DVD Description
Claudio Abbado conducts the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and a performance of Debussy - 'La Mer: Suite From Le Martyre De Saint Sebastien'. This programme also includes a documentary 'From Toscanini To Abbado - The History Of The Lucerne Festival Orchestra'.
Advantages: Fascinating insight into a very private conductor Disadvantages: One always wants more concert clips in DVDs like this...
...and had to have a large portion of his stomach removed, it was feared by many that he would never conduct again - but he has returned to his profession and produced what is widely regarded as his best and most intense musical interpretations. He has frequently said that the one thing which has kept him going in life since his severe illness is the power of music and this DVD has that personal philosophy very much as a recurring theme.
Content:
The documentary consists of 9 different chapters, covering aspects of Abbado's life, musical career and philosophy of life in general. They are: Introduction; Vienna; The shape of the music; Claudio; Silence; A magical place; Berlin; Lucerne and finally Hoelderin. Each chapter provides insight into the man behind the maestro, with the help of archive performance footage, comments from friends...
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Advantages: Spitting Image, lots of laughs, great intro to classical music Disadvantages: Deflates a little in the middle, wanted more
...Introduction:
Sometimes the strangest and most unexpected of combinations can work brilliantly together, so I was really intrigued to see that renowned Italian maestro Claudio Abbado had insisted that his DVD of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" should use Spitting Image puppets!
Somehow it seemed a rather improbable line-up: On one side as a supreme representative of "high culture", we have Claudio with his intense music-making and lofty interpretative ideas, conducting acclaimed recordings and concerts of Mahler, Mozart and Verdi to pick just a few highlighted composers from his long and illustrious career. At the other end of the cultural spectrum we have the Spitting Image team who are best known for their 80's TV series featuring bitingly satirical latex puppet portrayals of anyone famous (and infamous) from the Queen Mum...
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very helpful 29.05.2008
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