Whatever the revolution in playing standards since January 1966, when Barbirolli conducted Mahler’s Sixth in Berlin, I can’t remember hearing a tauter, more refined performance than this, nor one that ...

This tribute to Abbado, who died in 2014, is neither one thing nor the other. Colleagues speak affectionately about his art, but not in enough depth to explain the mystique of the famously ...

From the opening bars of Bartok's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, it was clear that Claudio Abbado's concert with the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester (the youth orchestra he founded in 1986) ...

Over 25 years, through crises and a changing world, Michael Haefliger has made the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland as we know it. By Joshua Barone A collection of 257 CDs and eight DVDs released by ...

Claudio Abbado conducting at the London Royal Festival Hall, 1983 Credit: Photo: Alamy Claudio Abbado, the Italian conductor, who has died aged 80, held four of the top musical posts in Europe: La ...