That father-daughter reunion duo brings me to tears every time.
@paullewis24137 ай бұрын
One of my favourite overtures is Mendelssohn’s “Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage”. Abbado’s recording with the LSO is by far the best I’ve ever heard.
@clementewerner Жыл бұрын
I saw this La Scala production in 1976 when Abbado and the La Scala company swapped places with the Royal Opera Covent Garden -La Scala did Boccanegra, La Cenerentola and the Verdi Requiem, while the Royal Opera did Peter Grimes and something else in Mian. It has remained one of the most memorable nights at the opera I have had, from the superb playing of the orchestra to the singers as on this record, but most of all Abbado's complete understanding of this work, transcending the oddities of the story. Needless to say this is the recording I have, and have cherished all these years. Thanks, Dave, for bringing back that memory.
@paullewis24137 ай бұрын
One of my earliest experiences at a live opera performance was at Covent Garden, Verdi’s Don Carlos conducted by Abbado. I was absolutely in awe of the whole production and what remains indelibly in my memory is Shirley Verrett’s Eboli and Claudio Abbado’s dynamic conducting.
@alecsachs9082 Жыл бұрын
I love Abbado’s 1989 recording of Brahms Symphony No. 3
@Warp75 Жыл бұрын
That Nevsky/Kijé/Scythian disc I play the most by Abbado. I like Verdi I will check this recording out. Thanks
@jayinvariant7095 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for a great recommendation! I didn’t know the work or recording before and I have definitely been missing out
@MrYoumitube Жыл бұрын
I agree, I used to dislike Opera but I'm starting to appreciate it. The first time I listened to this Opera with Abbado, I was able to get through it all the way on first listen...that is a first for me in an opera after listening to about 25 operas.
@mauricegiacche47762 ай бұрын
Along with Don Carlos, Macbeth & Otello , this remains in my top 4 Verdi operas. And if i hold Simon in such high esteem it is because of this recording. It really is quite perfect. Freni is remarkable. A true Verdian dramatic soprano. Cappucilli doesn’t merely sing, he “feels”. This opera seems to suit Abbado’s sensibility very well indeed.
@paolobigi59 Жыл бұрын
I also love his first recording of Il Viaggio a Reims of Rossini and his Pelleas and Melisande
@vessie528 Жыл бұрын
Great choice! Not just for Abbado but still the best ever recording of this opera as well.
@simontoussaint7555 Жыл бұрын
Great choice! I always return to his recording of Die Zauberflöte, really outstanding
@1972Diogenes11 ай бұрын
Found this one cheap in a january sale. Remembering Abbado's Viaggio which I like a lot, I bought it. Having listened to it, I cannot imagine someone outperforming this recording. It's like Ancerl's Romeo and Juliet or Kubelik's Meistersinger. You have to listen to it to get a grasp of its singular beauty. And the music is just fabulous in itself. Couldn't care less about the plot, when the music sounds like this.
@ugolomb Жыл бұрын
To me, Abbado's Boris Godunov is one of his greatest achievements. I know that its commercial failure was mentioned several times on this channel; but to me, whatever its commercial viability, it is an astonishing artistic achievement -- and this achievement owed much to Abbado himself
@DavesClassicalGuide Жыл бұрын
Agreed.
@LyleFrancisDelp Жыл бұрын
Saw this opera live at the MET in 2017. Domingo as lead and Levine conducting. A very nice evening at the opera.
@stevecook8934 Жыл бұрын
Great recording! Saw the MET production with Milnes and Santi in 1985.
@josefkrenshaw179 Жыл бұрын
I would choose his early Mussorgsky disc on RCA. It has most of his stand-alone orchestral works, four choral pieces, an original Bald Mountain, and music from his operas. He rerecorded all of these with Berlin later, I pull down a disk of "Pictures" and Rimsky's "Bald Mountain" and play them back to back and I have a good Mussorgsky binge.
@eisenaechery7591 Жыл бұрын
Love that you did Abbado Dave! Really enjoyed this :) I'd add to the list his Bruckner 5 (so light, so transparent), his Brahms cycle in Berlin (that orchestra did nothing better in those years) and his Mahler 9th. The Berlin players still talk about that today, about how they remember those performances. Any chance you might review the rest of the Vienna Phil Bruckner cycle? Maybe the seventh? I heard that one was at least pretty good.
@anonymusmester Жыл бұрын
I love his recording of Brahms Violin concerto with Mullova
@GG-cu9pg Жыл бұрын
My father would agree on this one, Dave. Very impressive! Rossini Overtures with Chamber Orchestra of Europe for me, thanks.
@dennischiapello7243 Жыл бұрын
This has been sitting on my shelf for years. I never warmed to it, not that I gave it much effort. The comments here have inspired me to give it a spin today and stick with it! (Dave's reading of the plot summary notwithstanding!)
@petterw5318 Жыл бұрын
I agree completely, it is an astonishing recording that showed us the masterpiece it is. The problem with the opera is that the first version was more focused on the personal story, while Verdi and Boito''s revision was more interested in the political stuff, almost like an Italian Boris Godunov. The council scene, the best one, exists only in the later version.
@grantparsons6205 Жыл бұрын
It's a brilliant recording. Toss up with it or one of the early LSO period recordings: the Rossini Overtures or his Stravinsky Petrushka.
@sgfnorth Жыл бұрын
Hi Dave, how about choosing one work from Tamas Vasary. I’d love to hear your view of his work.
@francoisjoubert6867 Жыл бұрын
Please tell us “Uncle Dave’s” version of that other weird Verdi Plot involving Leonora and Manrico! It will be such fun! I thought you would break the rules and take the DG Rossini box!
@c.iuliusbalbus4399 Жыл бұрын
In fact, both operas are based on dramas by the same author, namely Antonio García Gutiérrez...
@dcbuck52 Жыл бұрын
I used to teach a graduate seminar on Spanish Romantic Theater. Day One would begin with: "If you are expecting anything close to neo-classicism or realism as far as verisimilitude goes, the door is over there. I don't want to hear the words 'But that's crazy, it doesn't make sense' regarding plot, character, or thematc development."
@zevnikov Жыл бұрын
Hahaha Dave. You should apply as singing supervisor at big productions. It would be interesting and hilarious.😂
@melissaking6019 Жыл бұрын
My go-to Abbado recording is Lt. Kije with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Prokofiev is a difficult composer for some conductors to get right. Prokofiev's idiomatic harmonies may be challenging to them. But Abbado genuinely understands Kije and it's a beautiful interpretation. The CSO plays sharply in the effervescent Troika and plaintively in the Death of Kije.
@mattbalfe2983 Жыл бұрын
I'll have to take a listen, my go to Kije has been Ormandy.
@gmroberto1967 Жыл бұрын
“Terribly morto” ROTFL…😂😂😂 Please oh please Dave, do a video in Italian! 😅
@ER1CwC Жыл бұрын
I find the tinta of this opera very transparent in a way that reminds me oddly of Traviata. Both are surely among the most beautiful operas. My thought about Verdi (like Bellini) is that he was fundamentally not really interested in the plot per se, but rather the plot contains elements that allow him to explore different colours and emotions. Boccanegra certainly has that in spades. This Abbado recording is great. It's also worth mentioning that the Abbado Boccanegra and Macbeth are often paired together. I think there were major revivals of both at La Scala during his tenure.
@davidwyatt850 Жыл бұрын
RAI's TV recordings of both on KZbin. The Macbeth is sadly low quality video. Both CD recordings are great but Abbado couldn't quite show that Macbeth, too, is on a par with Verdi's greatest --- yet it's still a wonderful recording, very different from the equally wonderful Muti take on the opera. I cannot think of another Boccanegra I've even considered listening to!
@LyleFrancisDelp Жыл бұрын
That's as good as any choice. I can't dispute it. But I would offer up his Tchaikovsky 2 & 4, as well as his early Mahler 1, 4, 3, 5, and 7. I don't think I'm alone in thinking that early Abbado was much more interesting than the later Berlin Abbado.
@DavesClassicalGuide Жыл бұрын
He was, but there are lots of excellent recordings of those works, whereas the Verdi was pretty much unique.
@LyleFrancisDelp Жыл бұрын
@@DavesClassicalGuide I can't disagree here.
@GG-cu9pg Жыл бұрын
For Constantin Silvestri I vote the Icon box. 😉 However I’d go with any album that includes the Tallis Fantasia.
@bbailey7818 Жыл бұрын
This opera is Verdi's Boris Godunov, certainly, dark and tragic. No wonder the story is so complicated since it was lifted from the same playwright who wrote the original Trovatore. If Simon had simply announced that Amelia was his daughter Maria in the Council Chamber Scene and arrested Paolo then and there we could have had a happy ending and an opera shorter by almost an hour. But no. I agree, Abbado's finest though the Pelleas, Khovantschina, Viaggio a Reims, and Fierrabras are competitive.
@petermarksteiner7754 Жыл бұрын
BTW, is the "If I Could Choose Only One Work by ..." series still going on? If so, my choice for François Couperin would be: "Les Fastes de la grande et ancienne Mxnxstrxndxsx". A ten-minute piece for harpsichord, but absolutely hilarious and with an interesting background story. When I bought the Erato Couperin box (you may guess who is to blame for that) I did not expect too much of the complete harpsichord works - who wants to listen to ten hours or so of a tinkling and rattling harpsichord? But I found much to like there.
@DavesClassicalGuide Жыл бұрын
Sure, it's still going on. Thanks for the suggestion. I like it, though I may need to include more. Maybe that particular suite or book or ordre or whatever it's called.
@francescofurlan3098 Жыл бұрын
I fully agree about the gratness of this recording (although I have never loved so much Mirella Freni in Verdi), but I think that Abbado must have listened very carefully (and has probably fully understood and "digested") to Mitropoulos' astonishing conducting (with a quite mediocre orchestra such as was the MET's at that time) in the MET's live of 1960 with Guarrera, Milanov and Bergonzi. Mitopoulos' epic conception is clearly the model for the very "profound" and moving conducting by Abbado.
@DavesClassicalGuide Жыл бұрын
Pure speculation.
@brucckner13 Жыл бұрын
Mr. Hurwitz, Decca made a mess again. This time with new Jessye Norman box. First they didnt include a live recordings which were released a few months ago (and are quoted in the libretto of the box as included) and cd 10 starts with 90 seconds of silence and ends abruptly cutting the last track. Decca quality control department is inexistent.
@DavesClassicalGuide Жыл бұрын
I have a video coming--didn't talk about CD 10 but we're on the same page about other issues.
@corgansow6173 Жыл бұрын
I may get flak for saying this but Abbado owns Mahler 7 like nobody else. His chicago one is the best by far but a bootleg recording of him conducting Berlin Phil in "his last performance" supposedly has to be heard to be believed.
@DavesClassicalGuide Жыл бұрын
I don't believe any of them. So there's your flak. The Chicago one is very good, but not very well recorded.