Kids ...

Claudio Abbado has been admitted to a hospital following exhaustion. His short-term concerts including the Mahler 2nd at la Scala and the Mozart Prokovief Mendelssohn in Paris has not yet been officially cancelled but will be soon ...

We wish him the best and prompt recovery but never expected to see the name of Abbado in this ...

(31/05/2010: A quick udpate, there are plans to move the Pleyel concert in October 2010, so if you have tickets, do not try to get a refund too fast ...)

This morning at 8 h 59 ...

• Rushing to the Scala web site
• 9 h sharp, booking page overloaded
• Hitting reload key a few times, managed to get in
• Where are they. OK, I understand I need to go to page 2 forAbbado concerts
• High hopes: 53 seats for the Friday one; this is 53 more than I expected
• Selecting 2
• Proceeding
• The site does not recognize my home town which is a small Swiss village, I need to change and use my work adress in Geneva which should be ok
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• Too late, 53 seats are gone before you have the time to say Resurrection
• A look at my watch, ..., it is 9 h 02 !!

(Abbado has a long history with Mahler's 2nd Symphony. I first heard him conduct it with the LSO in 1979 ... and he has recorded it several times with I think the Chicago and the Vienna. This being said, the DVD has managed to bring, even at the levels achieved, something more ...

So for us, mere mortals, this is an outstanding Document to have ...)