Rattle was a figure in the hall’s development, using his influence to campaign and raise the necessity for a new hall after the orchestra’s previous performance venue – Birmingham’s Town Hall – had ...

Linton Stephens with unique concert recordings, including ... Mahler's monumental Symphony No.7 recorded specially by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sir Simon Rattle.

The longest and perhaps most ambitious of Mahler’s symphonies, the premiere of the composer's third symphony received a 15-minute ovation during which Mahler was called to return to the ...

Gustavo Dudamel returns to the hall at the head of his ‘other’ orchestra: the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra. There’s just one work, but Mahler’s mighty Symphony No 3 is a stand-alone masterpiece.

2025 marks the centenary year of the legendary composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, and Sir Simon Rattle kicks off the LSO’s celebrations with Éclat. An exploration of sound itself, for Rattle it’s ...

A good number of these involved Sir Simon Rattle. I recall one concert by a local authority school’s orchestra which involved a heroic slog through Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony and then Ratlle guest ...

The British-Jamaican opera singer Sir Willard White will deliver the laudatory address for Sir Simon Rattle and Members of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks will perform Arnold ...

Certainly this was an evening that felt as if it was far more about Mahler than Maduro. The players here are no longer children, yet they played the symphony with a passion and vibrancy that made it ...

On Wednesday 15 January 2025, the Luxembourg Philharmonie welcomed Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra to perform a selection of pieces chosen by the legendary conductor. With the 70th ...

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She will join José Luis Gomez and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra this weekend as the soloist for Mahler’s Symphony No. 3, then returns next weekend to sing the composer’s “Rückert-Lieder ...