Claudio Abbado and Simon Rattle: a tale of two conductors | Tom Service

After a performance in Berlin just 10 days ago, Abbado has cancelled his return to La Scala. Meanwhile, Rattle's astonishing St Matthew Passion is onlineCouple of quick aftershocks and afterthoughts from Berlin: news that Claudio Abbado has cancelled his long-planned return to La Scala because of exhaustion is naturally concerning. Abbado was due to conduct Mahler's Second Symphony with the La Scala Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart in Milan next week, the first time he would have been back at his ...

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