With the rigors of its latest European tour now safely behind it, and a crowded concert agenda to be faced at home between now and mid-June, the Chicago Symphony may be excused for taking things ...

Claudio Abbado goes traipsing through Karajan’s old turf in Berlin with a few interesting side trips. Things are still fine with the Philharmoniker. One of Herbert von Karajan’s showpiece composers ...

A string of unusually bad luck seems to have struck the podium of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Andre Previn is the latest conductor to withdraw because of illness, with Christopher Keene taking ...

The preamble to this review—a cursory glance at the state of the state of box sets in classical music—precedes the first of what will be three (the orchestral works conducted by Ferenc Fricsay’s on ...

Claudio Abbado, a star in the great generation of Italian conductors who was revered by musicians in the world's leading orchestras for developing a strong rapport with them while still allowing them ...

The legendary conductor, whose death was announced earlier today, left behind a massive record catalog spanning nearly half a century. He recorded with the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony and ...

That Claudio Abbado, who died Monday at 80, would become an important conductor was never in doubt. He was elegant in that intimidatingly sophisticated way of Milanese artists. He wasn’t flashy, but ...

Of the two elder statesmen among conductors returning to Rome this month, Riccardo Muti may bring a cosmetic gravitas to the tentative renaissance of Rome's beleaguered Opera House; but Claudio Abbado ...

Having undergone radical surgery for stomach cancer in 2000, Abbado not only lived to tell the tale but went on to what he, the most modest and objective of men, would have been the first to admit ...

Tchaikovsky's opera, Eugene Onegin, was performed for the first time by candlelight at the Moscow Conservatory. It has since risen from obscurity to become the composer's best-known opera. Claudio ...