Lucerne Festival 2004: Pollini plays Beethoven

With the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, a globally unique orchestra was formed, made sure of great moments and international headlines. "A conductor is back, an orchestra reborn" the New York Times wrote, "The miracle of Lucerne" praised the Berliner Tagesspiegel. Claudio Abbado stands at the music stand of an exquisite orchestra drawing together outstanding orchestral musicians and soloists such as Kolja Blacher, Natalia Gutman, Reinhold Friedrich and Sabine Meyer. Live-recording including Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 together with Abbado's partner in music of many years' standing and one of the world's leading pianist, Maurizio Pollini. "The playing was brilliant from the start… had gained in subtlety" The New York Times