Recorded live at the Concert Hall of the Culture and Convention Center, Lucerne, 19-21 August 2010.
Claudio Abbado and his hand-picked players of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra take their acclaimed Mahler cycle to a new level with this performance of the most compelling of the symphonies, the intense, searching Ninth. Abbado brings all his renowned clarity of vision and the experience of a lifetime to this contradictory music - half valedictory, half life-affirming - and his "orchestra of soloists" revels in the transparent textures and virtuosity of Mahler's last completed symphony.
Supplements
A Conductor Cam is suposedly available on the first movement using your remote's angle feature, but I'm not at all certain it was working for me. Toggling between two featured angles didn't always seem to change things, and they reverted at regular intervals anyway. What seems to be the intent, anyway, is for one of the angles to be centered solely on Abbado, but what happened for me was that it would feature Abbado for a moment and then revert back to views of the orchestra.