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[email protected] 4 Lulworth Close, Halesowen, B63 2UJ 01384 566383 VOLUME EIGHTEEN, NUMBER ONE, MARCH 2014 Associate Editors Dr Crawford Howie & Dr Dermot Gault Claudio Abbado In this issue: IT WAS very telling that Abbado’s conducting life should have Bruckner and Wagner – the come to a close at the Lucerne Festival last summer at which he relationship between two contrary directed the Unfinished of Schubert and, finally, Bruckner’s personalities - Dr. Andrea Harrandt Page 2 unfinished Ninth Symphony. His Bruckner performances over Levi’s rejection of the Eighth and its the past decade with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, notably of impact on Bruckner the man and his the Fourth, Fifth and Ninth Symphonies, are now fit to become attitude to his work and life the stuff of legend, but many obituary notices failed to record his Malcolm Hatfield Page 7 late visionary involvement with Bruckner. TBJ reader, David Book Review: Woodhead, wrote to The Times: “One composer is a notable The Power of Robert Simpson – omission from your obituary of Claudio Abbado (Jan. 21) and A Biography by Donald Macauley Richard Morrison’s tribute (Culture notes, Times 2), Dr Dermot Gault Page 17 namely Anton Bruckner. It is in the symphonies of Bruckner as CD, DVD & Blu-ray reviews Page 21 well as those of Mahler that Abbado has made such a marvellous impact during an Indian summer of great performances with his Concert Reviews Page 28 hand-picked Lucerne Festival Orchestra in recent years.