Memorial concert for Claudio Abbado with Simon Rattle and Frank Peter Zimmermann

In this concert from May 2014, the Berliner Philharmoniker remember their former chief conductor Claudio Abbado who died 4 months earlier on 20 January. In remembrance of this sad loss, Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G major without conductor. In the second part of the concert, Sir Simon Rattle performs Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7.

Berliner Philharmoniker

Sir Simon Rattle

Frank Peter Zimmermann

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