Claudio Abbado

An original portrait sketched under the sign of the German poet Holderin - the actor Bruno Ganz recites on of his poems at the beginning of the film. Claudio Abbado is sparing in his words although he is generous in his emotions. That is what makes this documentary special: Abbado talks about his illness (he was operated on for cancer in 2001) and the revolution this illness caused in his life, he

Gustav Mahler’s third symphony is, with its unequalled length of approximately 95 minutes, an exciting, mysterious, overbearing and moving piece. In the six parts of this marvellous symphony, Mahler expresses his musical vision on nature, and the place of mankind in nature. The composer uses, much in the same way as he did in his second symphony, material from his earlier 'Wunderhorn Liederen',...