In praise of … Claudio Abbado | Editorial

Few musicians have founded more orchestras and found time to be chief conductor of La Scala and the Berlin PhilharmonicFew orchestral concerts in years have had the classical music public's anticipatory juices running as strongly as those by Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra on London's Southbank this week. It's not hard to know why. The Lucerne orchestra is the classiest pick-up band in the business, hand-selected by Mr Abbado and consisting of principals from some of Europe's g...

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