COLOGNE MUSIC TRIENNALE - BRITTEN: SERENADE; DEBUSSY: NOCTURNES; RAVEL: LA VALSE; RIHM: IN DOPPELTER TIEFE - BERLIN PHILHARMONIC, CLAUDIO ABBADO (DVD)

One of music's most accomplished conductors, Claudio Abbado, conducts the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert recorded live from the Cologne Philharmonie during the Music Triennale. This program includes Maurice Ravel's "La Valse," Wolfgang Rihm's "In doppelter Tiefe" with soloists Stella Doufexis (mezzo soprano) and Anna Larsson (alto), two of Claude Debussy's three "Nocturnes"--"Nuages" and "Fetes," and Benjamin Britten's "Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings" featuring Philip Langridge.