Claudio Abbado & Lucerne Festival Orchestra – Mahler 9

The Mahler cycle of Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra has long since become legendary. Now they’re nearing the conclusion of their project as they take up the Ninth - the final symphony Mahler was able to complete. 'If music was heard in the earthly paradise, it could not have sounded more glorious than the performance of Mahler’s Fourth Symphony led by Claudio Abbado,' (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 2009)