In Memoriam Of Abbado
) | Label: ORFEO Catalog: ORF-C892141B Format: CD Schell; Jeuness-Choir Vienna; European Community Youth Orchestra; Gustav Maher Jugendorchester; AbbadoComposed by: Stravinsky; Mussorgsky For Claudio Abbado, the European youth orchestras he founded and conducted were always an affair of the heart. With them he could live out his enthusiasm without compromising either quality or repertoire. Mr. Abbado, who died in January 2014, conducted many concerts and operas in Salzburg, and not just with the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonics. He also led international youth orchestras to major Festival successes. This CD impressively documents his live recording of the very first concert of the European Community Youth Orchestra from 1979 in a program both varied and ambitious, ranging from Beethoven via Prokofiev and Stravinsky to Schoenberg’s Survivor from Warsaw with the Vienna Jeunesse Choir and the great actor Maximilian Schell as narrator. The program is complemented by a 1994 recording of the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra in the ‘Night on Bald Mountain’ by Modest Mussorgsky – a composer whom Abbado did much to rehabilitate through championing the original versions of his works.  Price: $20.98 |