You have to listen to this disc. It justifies the whole invention of recording sound. Claudio Abbado -- a man of 70 who had just recovered from a life-threatening illness -- leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra -- an orchestra made of up some of the best musicians in Europe -- in two of the greatest orchestral works of the fin de siècle -- Debussy's exciting, exhilarating, and ecstatic La Mer and Mahler's massive, monumental, and monomaniacal Resurrection Symphony -- in the cleanest, clearest, recordings ever made. ...
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You have to listen to this disc. It justifies the whole invention of recording sound. Claudio Abbado -- a man of 70 who had just recovered from a life-threatening illness -- leads the Lucerne Festival Orchestra -- an orchestra made of up some of the best musicians in Europe -- in two of the greatest orchestral works of the fin de siècle -- Debussy's exciting, exhilarating, and ecstatic La Mer and Mahler's massive, monumental, and monomaniacal Resurrection Symphony -- in the cleanest, clearest, recordings ever made. Claudio Abbado had made magnificent recordings of both La Mer and the Resurrection before, but his performances here are more than magnificent: they are truly and profoundly transcendent. The Lucerne Festival Orchestra has never recorded anything before because it is an ad hoc band including the leader of the Berlin Philharmonic, all the members of Sabine Meyer's Wind Ensemble, all the members but one of the Hagen Quartett, and all the members of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. But in...
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