Sir Simon Rattle: biography, videos

Biography

The original “wunderkind” of the conducting world, Rattle has crowned his whirlwind musical career with the appointment to the orchestra of his great historical hero, Furtwängler, and brought his unique enthusiasm and energetic style to the heart of the German symphonic tradition. With his readiness to engage with audiences, the dynamism of his performances and inquiring musical mind, he led the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra through a golden age during the two decades of his tenure, making orchestral showpieces like Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring a speciality, and actively fostering and promoting music from a new generation of British composers.

Sir Simon Rattle

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Sir Simon Rattle and sir András Schiff in Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Piano Concerto No. 1

Sol Gabetta plays Elgar's Cello Concerto

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mozart's last three symphonies

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mendelssohn, Bach and Beethoven – With Christian Tetzlaff, Camilla Tilling, Nathalie Stutzmann, Joseph Kaiser, Dimitry Ivashchenko

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Britten and Bruckner – With Ian Bostridge

Karajan, or Beauty As I See It

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rameau and Berlioz

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mozart and Haydn's "Une Symphonie imaginaire" (a pasticcio by Sir Simon Rattle) – With Daishin Kashimoto and Amihai Grosz

The Labèque Way

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Ralph Vaughan Williams, Antonín Dvořák and Ludwig van Beethoven

The Highest Level : Lang Lang with the Berliner Philharmoniker

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Dvořák, Hindemith, Khachaturian, and Brahms

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Ligeti, Wagner, Sibelius, Debussy and Ravel

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Chabrier, Rodrigo, and Rachmaninov – With Juan Manuel Cañizares

Sir Simon Rattle conducts de Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain – With Joaquín Achúcarro

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, and Lincke – With Yefim Bronfman

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky

Simon Rattle conducts Bruch, Beethoven and Stravinsky – With Vadim Repin

Sir Simon Rattle conducts an all-American program – With Thomas Quasthoff and Pauline Malefane

The World of the Wiener Philharmoniker

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Brahms and Wagner – With Lisa Batiashvili and Truls Mørk

Sir Simon Rattle and Leonidas Kavakos play Bartók, Stravinsky and Berlioz

Sir Simon Rattle conducts works from the French repertoire – With the Labèque sisters

Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker celebrate Mozart – With Magdalena Kožená, Gerald Finley, Emanuel Ax...

Simon Rattle and Daniel Barenboim play Brahms

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Carl Orff's Carmina Burana – With Sally Matthews, Lawrence Brownlee, and Christian Gerhaher

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Bernstein's Wonderful Town – With the Berliner Philharmoniker

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