Conductor Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion deliver a performance on period instruments of high technical standards ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It is not easy to create a sensation with the Brahms symphonies. These ...
Simon Rattle conducts Shostakovich's Fourth SymphonyBrahms/Shostakovich concert images by Mark Allan, Half Six Fix event by Ed Vulliamy Stalin’s banal, communist ...
This concert by the London Symphony Orchestra had the appearance of a dual celebratory function, marking as it did both the centenary of Pierre Boulez, one of the towering figures of music in the last ...
"It's an unkickable drug habit. And I'm happy to be a junkie until the end of my days." So says 54-year-old English conductor Simon Rattle, who, for the last seven years, has been getting his high as ...
On the morning after conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in two concerts at Carnegie Hall recently, Simon Rattle was in a car on the way to Boston and dialed up a reporter in California. “Oh, don’t ...
With a four-movement structure and a performance time of 50 minutes, Johannes Brahms's (1833?1897) Piano Concerto No. 2 boasts a scale comparable to any symphony. Beethoven's and Rachmaninoff's ...
“Orchestras are like people,” said Sir Simon Rattle. “They’re the sonic embodiment of their community.” Rattle should know. The 61-year-old British conductor has lifted his baton in front of most of ...
That's not to say that we didn't get some glorious Viennese cream. We did. But we also got a deliberate untidiness that could only be described as a kind of musical sprezzatura. This was most in ...
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