Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven’s Music to Egmont and Mozart’s Requiem at Lucerne Festival

Claudio Abbado conducts Beethoven’s Music to Egmont and Mozart’s Requiem at Lucerne Festival

The opening of the Lucerne Festival 2012, Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in the first part present a most powerful composition dedicated to Goethe’s hero Egmont, the Incidental Music to ‘Egmont’ by Beethoven. The second part of the program includes Mozart’s last composition, the Requiem in D Minor, which was left unfinished due to the early death of the composer.

  • No: 9844
  • Genre: Concert
  • Composer: Beethoven, Mozart
  • Conductor: Claudio Abbado
  • Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Choir, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Swedish Radio Choir
  • Artists: Anna Prohaska, Bruno Ganz (narrator), Juliane Banse, Maximilia Schmitt, René Pape, Sara Mingardo
  • Director: Michael Beyer
  • Music Genre: Vocal
  • Production year: 2012
  • Run time: 01:50:00
  • Producers: A production of ACCENTUS MUSIC in co-production with SF/ARTE, NHK and medici.tv
  • Format: HDTV 16:9