| DESCRIPTION | • 60-CD limited edition original jacket collection
• Includes the complete Brahms and Beethoven Symphony Cycles
• Includes celebrated collaborations with Martha Argerich, Bryn Terfel, Maurizio Pollini, Evegny Kissin, Roberto Alagna, Christine Schäfer, Alfred Brendel, Viktoria Mullova, Gil Shaham, and Renée Flemming
• 130pp booklet
• The Beethoven Symphonies recorded in Rome 2001, representing Abbado´s final interpretative wishes “There are many reasons for releasing this new edition; above all musical ones. After many performances of the cycle, our interpretative vision had matured, becoming more natural and shared. The concerts in Rome marked significant advances in terms of style, spirit and technique.”
• The Beethoven Piano Concertos with Pollini which stand as a lasting testament to the long-standing musical dialogue and friendship between the two maestros, both from Milan, who began their collaboration in the 1960s
• Abbado’s and the Berliner Philharmoniker’s recordings of Brahms’ Symphonies, Serenades and Overtures are widely recognized as containing the best modern recordings of his symphonic oeuvre. “Brahms would be the top of my Abbado picks,” critic Martin Kettle has written, “partly but not only because all those years ago he drove into the tragic grandeur of the first movement of the first symphony with a human warmth which very few other conductors have ever achieved.”
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