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What makes Abbado's Mahler performances so remarkable is that their impact is never achieved at the
expense of the multiple sensitivities, subtleties and extreme sophistication.
Together with one of the world's leading youth orchestras the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Abbado performs Mahler's Fourth Symphony and Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande, the latter being
preceded by an introduction that offers fascinating insights into this unparalleled composition.
The Fourth Symphony is well established in the international concerts repertory and it is the most
recorded of Mahler's symphonies, right after the First Symphony. Pelleas und Melisande is a masterpiece
in the romantic style of Schoenberg's first period.