Abbado 2003
The long and fruitful relationship between Deutsche Grammophon and Claudio Abbado - 36 years and several hundred recordings - is, by today's recording industry's standards, a miracle.
We made our first recording together (with Martha Argerich as soloist) in 1967, the same year Abbado burst onto the international music scene conducting Mahler's Second Symphony at the Salzburg Festival. Since then, we have accompanied the Maestro at all the principal stations of his career - in London where he was principal conductor and music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, in Milan where he was music director of La Scala, in Vienna where he held a similar post at the Wiener Staatsoper and in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker. DG was also there to document Claudio Abbado's activities with two of the orchestras he created: the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Ferrara and at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra at the Wien Modern festival which Abbado founded.
Chris Alder (May 2003)
We made our first recording together (with Martha Argerich as soloist) in 1967, the same year Abbado burst onto the international music scene conducting Mahler's Second Symphony at the Salzburg Festival. Since then, we have accompanied the Maestro at all the principal stations of his career - in London where he was principal conductor and music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, in Milan where he was music director of La Scala, in Vienna where he held a similar post at the Wiener Staatsoper and in Berlin with the Berliner Philharmoniker. DG was also there to document Claudio Abbado's activities with two of the orchestras he created: the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Ferrara and at the Rossini Festival in Pesaro and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra at the Wien Modern festival which Abbado founded.
Chris Alder (May 2003)
