Tuesday, January 21, 2014

RIP Claudio Abbado

One of my favorite conductors, especially for his version of the Pergolesi Stabat Mater. Here he conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Brahms' Hungarian Dance number 4. Controlling a large mass of musicians so that they end up producing a sound that is not only coherent, not only pleasing, but sometimes magical, is far from easy. Abbado could do it.

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