Album insights
One of the greatest and most influential conductors of his time was Claudio Abbado. Over the years, he shaped music and led the creation of many new orchestras, building a vast repertoire with them. Honoring Abbado, who is dearly missed in the grand concert halls, a unique new recording of Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony, a composer Abbado greatly admired, will be released this summer. Recorded during one of his final live performances in September 2011, this album was a collaboration with his beloved Orchestra Mozart, a group Abbado himself founded. From his initial presentation of the Great C Major Symphony in The Hague in 1996, the maestro repeatedly devoted himself to this composition, achieving greatness with each subsequent interpretation. Abbado's deep passion for music and his precise direction of the orchestra make his final rendition of this piece a recording of remarkable historical significance.