Claudio Abbado Conductor

摘要

You can watch endless films and go to concert after concert and still remain uncertain as to 'how does conducting work?'. With Claudio Abbado, who died at 80 on the 20th of January 2014, even some of the players were uncertain. 'He is attentive to what individual players suggest and he's better than anyone else in moulding that into a logical whole. I don't know how...' said one of his Berlin principals. And in Paul Smaczny's 2004 documentary Claudio Abbado - Hearing the Silence [EuroArts 2053279] Abbado's close friend, the [Downfall] actor Bruno Canz struggles to reconcile the elegance, and a 'huge kind of distance, which he could overcome in a second', and the atmosphere at Lucerne concerts where a whole audience was drawn into a complete raptness.