Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra – Bruckner 5 | ACCENTUS Music

Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 5
in B flat major (WAB 105; Nowak edition)

Lucerne Festival Orchestra
Claudio Abbado

“Abbado’s approach to the music of Bruckner is soft and songlike, at times tense and urgent, but constantly filled with warmth of feeling” – not only the Neue Zürcher Zeitung is full of praise when Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra play Bruckner. Their interpretation of his awe-inspiring Fifth Symphony reflects the composer’s burgeoning powers and exquisite compositional artistry. As The Guardian poetically states: “The composer himself, one suspects, might have leapt to embrace Abbado as an ideal interpreter.”

„The orchestra, combining old friends and young talents, radiates a fabulously chamber-musical quality.“ – Financial Times

„… simply buy it, mortgaging the cat if need be. Crystal-clear camera work and perfect sound.“ – Classical Music Magazine

“The sound is excellent, the camerawork sensitive and technically first-rate. Abbado himself is invariably the main focus of attention and he’s wonderful to watch: theatrical posing and outsize gestures are evidently foreign to his nature. What you see is clear cueing, a discernible beat and subtle facial responses. The players vary in age and appearance: no stiffening dress-code clamps down with unwarranted formality, just well-dressed men and women totally into the business of making great music. And boy, do they deliver!” – Gramophone’s Top 10 Bruckner Recordings (click here)

Languages:	English
Disc Formats:	DVD-9, BD 25
Number of Discs:	1 (DVD), 1 (Blu-ray)
Picture Formats:	16:9 NTSC, FULL HD (BD); 16:9 NTSC (DVD)
Sound Formats:	PCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio (BD); PCM Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 (DVD)
Running time:	80:33 min
Catalogue Numbers:	ACC20243 (DVD), ACC10243 (Blu-ray)
Release Dates:	05/2012 (Worldwide)
EAN Codes:	42 6023483 026 2 (BD); 42 6023483 025 5 (DVD)