London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, L’Oiseau de Feu, Jeu de cartes (2012) SACD ISO

London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, L’Oiseau de Feu, Jeu de cartes (2012)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 / 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 1:17:50 minutes | 3,13 GB
Genre: Jazz | Publisher (label): Universal SHM UCGG-9057

Uses 2012 DSD master based on the Deutsche Grammophon’s original analog tape. Reissue features the high-fidelity SHM-SACD format (fully compatible with standard SACD player, but it does not play on standard CD players). *SHM-SACD (Super High Material SACD) is the ultimate Super Audio CD that utilizes the materials and technologies that were developed for the SHM-CD to further enhance the audio-resolution.

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Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021) SACD ISO

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Anna Larsson – Mahler: Symphonies Nos.3 & 1 (2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 02:28:05 minutes | 6.12 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric

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Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker – Brahms: The 4 Symphonies (Esoteric Japan 2018) SACD ISO + DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker – Brahms: The 4 Symphonies (Esoteric Japan 2018)
SACD Rip | 3x SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 212:07 minutes | Full Scans included | 8,97 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Full Scans included | 8,82 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Full Scans included | 4,61 GB

For collectors of Claudio Abbado’s recordings, the performances on this three-discs Japanese Esoteric label’s remastered release of the Italian conductor’s digital recordings of Brahms’ symphonies with the Berliner Philharmoniker may seem redundant, since the symphonies were previously released as single discs in the late ’80s and early ’90s on Deutsche Grammophon. But this box set marks the first hybrid SACD release of historical recording selections. These new audio versions feature Esoteric’s proprietary re-mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.

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London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Rossini: Overtures (1975/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado - Rossini: Overtures (1975/2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Rossini: Overtures (1975/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 46:19 minutes | 1,68 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

This high-quality vinyl edition contains Claudio Abbado’s unforgettable interpretations of Gioachino Rossini’s overtures. Thanks to Claudio Abbado’s brilliant inventiveness, these recordings with the London Symphony Orchestra are among the musical and stylistic milestones of the Rossini interpretation, presented here in an unprecedented recording full of care and sophistication. The ravishing recordings date from the early 1970s and are now being reissued by Deutsche Grammophon in an audiophile format, in honor of a composer Gioachino Rossini, who has always been acclaimed. Abbado brings out Rossini’s characterful music with meticulousness and the finest flair, the “Semiramis” overture as well as the overtures to “The Thieving Magpie”, “The Barber of Seville”, “The Italian Woman in Algiers”, “La Cenerentola”, “The Silk Ladder” and “Wilhelm Tell”.
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Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado – The Berlin Gala: A Salut to Carmen (1998/2014) SACD ISO

Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado – The Berlin Gala: A Salut to Carmen (1998/2014)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Run Time: 01:18:29 | 3,15 GB
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric

The reissue of classical music masterpieces by ESOTERIC has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound, and for using hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) technology to improve sound quality. This series marks the first hybrid SACD release of historical recording selections that have been mainstays of the catalog since their initial release. These new audio versions feature ESOTERIC’s proprietary re-mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.

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Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado – Schubert: The “Great” C Major Symphony, D. 944 (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado – Schubert: The “Great” C Major Symphony, D. 944 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:44 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Announcing a rare new album conducted by Maestro Abbado – still much missed by many in the concert hall and the studio. Schubert remained one of Abbado’s favourite composers throughout his life and since his first performance in Den Haag in 1966 he returned again and again to the “Great“ C Major Symphony.

This very special album combines live performances with Abbado’s beloved Orchestra Mozart, recorded in September 2011. Twenty-five years after his first recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Abbado’s new interpretation of this symphony reveals a wealth of new details, making it his definitive take on the work.

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Martha Argerich, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 (1995,1999/2021) DSF DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC

Martha Argerich, Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1 (1995,1999/2021)
DSD64 (.dsf) 1 bit/2,82 MHz | Time – 01:17:16 minutes | 3,04 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:16 minutes | 1,1 GB
Souce: SACD-R | Artwork: Front Cover | Genre: Classical | © Deutsche Grammophon / Esoteric

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 ‘Tragic’ (1980) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No. 6 ‘Tragic’ (1980)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:23:46 minutes | 2,51 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (1981/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No. 5 (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:12:26 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

As with just about all the Mahler symphonies, Abbado has made multiple recordings of the Fifth, but this, his first, remains his finest, and an exceptional performance by any standard. It has all of the famed Chicago virtuosity but also a welcome attention to detail and willingness to savor a phrase that you almost never find with Solti’s Chicago Mahler. It’s great to hear a coda to the second movement that for once does not sound anti-climactic. We expect the horn playing in the scherzo to be stunning, and so it is, but the music also has grace, charm, and plenty of atmosphere at an appropriately relaxed basic tempo that, as you can hear, leaves plenty of space for the big moments to expand.

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No.5 In C Sharp Minor (1993/2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No.5 In C Sharp Minor (1993/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:09:29 minutes | 624 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

The Fifth Symphony (1901-02) itself demonstrates Mahler’s principle of “progressive tonality,” moving from a Funeral March to a jubilant sense of triumph in D Major. In the course this monumental score, divided into three parts, Mahler juxtaposes the most extreme emotions and musical forms: learned counterpoint and simple country laendler, vociferous anger and grotesque fantasies, and grateful love and appreciation of Nature and human affection.

If martial energy and resentment dominate the first two movements, a blissful or triumphant note emerges from the chorale motifs later in the score, even anticipated, in the stormy second movement, when pantheistic and visionary elements in the brass interrupt the dreadful impetus of the music. In a letter to his wife, Alma, Mahler expressed his own reaction to the originally-scored brass turbulence: “Heavens, what is the public to make of this chaos in which new worlds are forever being engendered, only to crumble into ruin the next moment? What are they to say to this primeval music, this foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound, to these dancing stars, to these breathtaking, iridescent, and flashing breakers?”

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Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No.6 (2005) MCH SACD ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Mahler: Symphony No.6 (2005)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & DST64 5.1 >1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Covers | 5.11 GB
FLAC tracks 2.0 24bit/88.2 kHz | Covers | 1.29 GB

When at last it was revealed what Mahler’s final intentions were regarding the ordering of the inner movements of his 6th Symphony, 90 years of theory, history, & performance practice went right out the window. For theorists, it altered the harmonic structure of Mahler’s A minor Symphony. For historians, it modified the meaning of Mahler’s “Tragic” Symphony. For players & conductors, it changed the musical progress of Mahler’s 6th Symphony. For listeners, it made Mahler’s deepest & darkest symphony even deeper & darker. With the achingly nostalgic Andante moderato now coming before the bitingly bitter Scherzo, the triumph of the opening Allegro energico sounds even more hollow & empty & the collapse of the closing Allegro moderato sounds even more final & total.

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Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado – Mozart: Oboe Concerto; Haydn: Sinfonia concertante (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado – Mozart: Oboe Concerto; Haydn: Sinfonia concertante (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:44 minutes | 744 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Claves Records

It all started at the end of a beautiful summer’s day in August 2010: the telephone rings, Lucas Macias Navarro, solo oboe of the Concertgebow Amsterdam, is on the line: “Hi Pat! Would you be interested in recording Mozart’s Oboe Concerto with the Mozart Orchestra, conducted by… Claudio Abbado?”
Knowing the musician to be a tease at times, I first thought it was a joke, but Lucas confirms: it is indeed a serious proposition!

Even though the Claves catalogue includes such brilliant names as Fischer-Dieskau, Teresa Berganza or the English Chamber Orchestra, it is true that a project such as this is quite something in a catalogue that prides itself with rare recordings, young interpreters, and also promotes and broadcasts the Swiss musical scene.
After all, it is rather as if, in 1980, the flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal had made a proposal to our founder, Marguerithe Dütschler, to record a Mozart concerto conducted by Herbert von Karajan…
Needless to say, the answer was yes, and thanks to donations from a very generous patron, the recording was planned in Spain, three years later.

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Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. V – Claudio Abbado conducts Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner (2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/48kHz]

Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado – Lucerne Festival Historic Performances Vol. V – Claudio Abbado conducts Schubert, Beethoven & Wagner (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:17:42 minutes | 793 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Audite Musikproduktion

MusicWeb Review by John Quinn :: No doubt the record industry will issue any number of commemorative editions in memory of the late Claudio Abbado (1933-2014) over the coming months. This disc of Lucerne Festival performances was already in the pipeline, I believe, so Audite have been able to issue this tribute very promptly and it is a fitting one.

We learn from Peter Hagmann’s very good booklet tribute that Abbado made his Lucerne Festival debut back in 1966: at that time he was so unknown that, as Hagmann relates, when he arrived to take his first rehearsal there the doorman didn’t know who he was and nearly didn’t admit him. Over the following years the Italian maestro became ever more closely linked with the Festival, appearing there many times and eventually emulating Toscanini by assembling a hand-picked orchestra to make music with him there. The combination of Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra was to be a potent one. Here, however, we find him with two other orchestras with whom he enjoyed long and close relationships.

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Gidon Kremer, London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado- Vivaldi: Four Seasons (1981/2017) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Gidon Kremer, London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado- Vivaldi: Four Seasons (1981/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 38:35 minutes | 687 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

Of all the world-renowned violinists born in the decade after World War II—an exclusive club that includes Pinchas Zukerman, Pierre Amoyal, and Kyung Wha Chung—Gidon Kremer has taken the least- expected path to lasting fame. Today he is best known as a passionate champion and performer of modern music, the founder of an iconoclastic chamber orchestra in his native Latvia, and a public critic of the glitzy marketing of classical music.

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Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 25 & 27 (1974/2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Friedrich Gulda, Wiener Philharmoniker & Claudio Abbado – Mozart: Piano Concertos No. 25 & 27 (1974/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:10 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

The year 1786 was one of Mozart’s most fruitful, full of diverse works in his most mature vein. It was crowned with the production of the C major Concerto, K. 503, and the “Prague” Symphony. This concerto is the last of the series in C major, and combines with its companion K. 491 in C minor, which in turn succeeded the A major K. 488, to make a trilogy that has been likened to the three great symphonies of two years later. Whatever the family similarities between the other pieces may be, there is no doubt that the C major Concerto, like the C major Symphony, show Mozart glorying in the complete mastery of means and offering a certain Olympian grandeur that at the same time does not exclude his more tender, eloquent vein.

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