Arnold Schoenberg

With his very own 'mysterious seductive power and legendary elegance,' Claudio Abbado opened for the last time at the Lucerne Festival in the summer of 2013. Only a few months later, the world had to bid farewell to a monumental artist, humanist, great conductor and orchestra founder. Even in the concert itself, documented here, lived a moment of farewell, as the three great works performed tell of the transience of life.