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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A day with Verbier Festival Orchestra II: Verbier Festival Essentials

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Knussen, Turnage, and Britten — With Lucy Crowe, Allan Clayton, and Richard Watkins

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Dvořák and Mahler — With Magdalena Kožená and Simon O'Neill

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

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Bartók, Szymanowski, Stravinsky, Golijov, and Bernstein – With the Labèque Sisters

Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Wagner, Bartók, and Haydn – With Denis Kozhukhin

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Webern, Berg, Ligeti, and Stravinsky – With Barbara Hannigan

Sol Gabetta plays Elgar's Cello Concerto

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

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Mozart's last three symphonies

Mozart's The Magic Flute

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Britten and Bruckner – With Ian Bostridge

Karajan, or Beauty As I See It

Ravel meets Gershwin – With Sir Simon Rattle, Dianne Reeves, and the Berliner Philharmoniker

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

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Ravel, Dutilleux and Delage — With Leonidas Kavakos, Julia Bullock

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

Sir Simon Rattle conducts Bruch, Beethoven and Stravinsky — With Vadim Repin

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