Sir Simon Rattle leads the London Symphony Orchestra and a world-class line-up of soloists in a new recording of Berlioz’s unique La damnation de Faust.In 2019 the classical world will mark 150 years since the death of Berlioz and this album will be released around anniversary of his passing.The LSO are known globally as leading Berlioz performers and have a large, award-winning back catalogue of the composer’s work.Sir Simon Rattle describes Faust as “like the birth of cinema,” a unique mix of opera, oratorio and drama.High profile coverage around the Berlioz 150 celebrations in 2019. LSO have a major Berlioz concert in May which will be livestreamed. Soloists have major Berlioz concerts across France.
馬勒:大地之歌
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發布於 2018-10-08
Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth) is subtitled A symphony for tenor, alto (or baritone) voice and orchestra"". It examines the border between two different genres: the Lied, in its extended form as a song cycle, and the symphony. And as ever in Mahlers music, that border is anything but black and white. The work certainly differs radically from a mere song cycle: the Lieder are permeated by symphonic techniques and some symphonic movements are built up from huge stanzas. Interludes expand to become development sections in which important things happen. Indeed, the thematic events take place in the orchestra, and, in a certain sense, the soloists also form a part of the interwoven orchestral texture. The sequence of movements also follows that of a symphony: In the weighty outer movements one clearly notices sonata form shining through the stanza structures, and symphonic processes are obviously taking place. Two inner movements take the place of the slow movement and sarcastic scherzo. The entire work is spanned by a taut arc, culminating in accordance with the principle of intensification in a huge final movement lasting as long as all the others together, and entitled Der Abschied (The Farewell). Here, Mahler is continuing the genre of the Finale Symphony, and the brightening of C minor to C major is even reminiscent of his usual apotheoses. In this symphony, as in his others, Mahler wanted to ""create a world using all existing technical means. The formal design of the work is unique, and the demands it places on its performers are extreme. It requires two highly experienced Lied singers, who in combination with the huge orchestral apparatus have to be able to perform as soloists while blending into the symphonic structure as concert voices. An excellent and well-coordinated body of sound is needed here, and of course a highly competent conductor to ensure cohesion and to give spirit and soulfulness to such a large-scale work.
伯恩斯坦:美妙城鎮
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發布於 2018-10-08
Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra pay homage to Leonard Bernstein with a recording of Wonderful Town that captures the energy and excitement of sold-out performances from December 2017. Featuring an all-star cast led by Danielle de Niese and Alysha Umphress, this release coincides with worldwide #BernsteinAt100 celebrations marking the centenary of the Orchestra’s former President.Bernstein’s five-time Tony award-winning musical follows sisters Ruth and Eileen on their quest to make it big, pursuing careers in writing and acting from their cramped basement apartment in New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village. Fresh from rural Ohio, the sisters end up getting more than they bargained for, realising that life in the Big Apple is not as glamorous as it may seem.A bright and cheery love letter to the city that never sleeps and the colourful characters inhabiting it, Wonderful Town draws on Fields and Chodorov’s 1940 play My Sister Eileen, which itself is based on a series of autobiographical short stories by the ‘real-life’ Ruth McKenney.Bernstein’s infectious score includes classic numbers such as ‘Ohio’, ‘One Hundred Easy Ways’, and ‘A Little Bit in Love’, as well as a riotous conga that had delighted audiences dancing in the aisles of the Barbican hall. The digital version of the album will include an additional version of Conga!’, featuring audience participation, as a bonus track.
Haydn - An Imaginary Orchestral Journey.Sir Simon Rattle pays homage to a composer he holds close to his heart with Haydn - An Imaginary Orchestral Journey. Sir Simon's focus is on Haydn as innovator, showcasing his most forward-looking and outlandish works in 50 minutes of uninterrupted performance. In a selection meticulously arranged to best demonstrate Haydn's intelligence, wit and thoughtfulness Rattle has pieced together excerpts from symphonies, oratorios and operas spanning a 40-year period.
馬勒-交響曲全集(12CD)
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發布於 2017-08-19
“For Mahler,” Sir Simon Rattle has said, "the symphony is where you can tell the most important truths.” The composer’s works have been crucial to his career – indeed, it was the epic Symphony No. 2 that first inspired him to become a musician. Spanning nearly two decades, these recordings of the complete symphonies, including Deryck Cooke’s completion of No. 10, were made with the two ensembles most closely identified with Rattle’s name: the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Berliner Philharmoniker.
The name of Simon Rattle had not been closely associated with the works of Johannes Brahms so it was even more rewarding when his first Brahms recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker, "Ein deutsches Requiem", won critical accolades and both Grammy and Classic FM/Gramophone awards. Now Sir Simon and the Orchestra have committed to disc the complete Brahms symphonies, recorded in concert at Berlin’s Philharmonie in the autumn of 2008. In the words of Die Zeit, "Simon Rattle has finally dared to tackle Brahms with the Berliner Philharmoniker. He combines Furtwängler’s monumentality with Karajan’s beautiful sound." The Brahms symphonies concerts drew praise from the German critics: "The fourth symphony was an ecstatic apotheosis of what current orchestral playing, quick reactions and scarcely sketched annotations can get out of this work which has long since become a classic. Especially the Passacaglia finale was a finely-dosed wonder of sound refinement and harmonic finesse. Rattle appears to have finally conquered his difficult Berliners."--Die Welt.
斯特拉文斯基:詩篇交響曲
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發布於 2008-07-08
Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky Recorded Live in September 2007. The album comprises three of the five works by Stravinsky which contain the word `symphony' in their titles, including the Symphony in C which Sir Simon has never before performed and which the BPO haven't played for over 20 years. EMI. 2008.
馬勒:第九交響曲
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發布於 2008-03-03
"The performance of Gustav Mahler’s 9th symphony was one of the most wonderful accomplishments of Simon Rattle as conductor of this orchestra." Berliner Zeitung EMI Classics are pleased to release a new recording of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 by Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker taped live during concerts in October 2007. Sir Simon and the Orchestra subsequently performed the symphony at the Salzburg and Lucerne festivals before taking it to America in November, where they headlined Carnegie Hall's "Berlin in Lights" festival and performed it again in Boston's Symphony Hall. To coincide with the "Berlin in Lights" festival, EMI made available a digital pre-release of the album.
馬勒交響曲全集:NO.1-10
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發布於 2007-09-18
The recording of Sir Simon Rattle's complete cycle of Mahler symphonies began in '86 and ended in 2002; here's the first assemblage of all those glorious performances! Within these 14 CDs are his celebrated recordings with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic; the Vienna Philharmonic's performance of Symphony No. 9 , and, as a bonus, Rattle's second recording of Symphony No. 10 with the Berlin Philharmonic.
勃拉姆斯:德意志安魂曲
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發布於 2007-03-19
Dorothea Röschmann / Thomas Quasthoff /Simon Rattle / Rundfunkchor Berlin / Berliner Philharmoniker
克里斯蒂安·齊默爾曼/拉特爾:勃拉姆斯第一鋼琴協奏曲
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發布於 2006-03-03
西蒙·拉特執棒柏林愛樂樂團，與鋼琴演奏者齊默爾曼合作勃拉姆斯的《第一鋼琴協奏曲》。
馬勒:第十交響曲
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發布於 2000-04-01
Just as the Payne/Elgar Symphony No. 3 is not Edward Elgar's definitive statement, Mahler did not complete his Symphony No. 10. He did, however, complete the first movement in full score and the second in short score, while he left incomplete sketches for the remainder. Had he lived, Mahler would almost certainly have shaped the material further. This means that the performance edition prepared by Deryck Cooke in the early 1960s is not a completion, it's an orchestration of the short score left at Mahler's death in 1911. It nevertheless sounds very "complete," both in itself and as a summation of the romantic-epic 19th century German musical tradition. Hereafter, the France of Debussy and Ravel would lead the musical world, and Stravinsky's 1913 Parisian premiere of The Rite of Spring would turn it upside-down. Simon Rattle has recorded a fine version with the CBSO. In 1980, Rattle conducted the Symphony No. 10 in a highly acclaimed performance with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, and this later version with the Berlin Philharmonic offers even greater expressive control and power. The tempos are slightly slower and, inevitably, the performances more musically eloquent. The excellent live sound omits all but the faintest background noise, and the grave beauty of the Finale becomes a deeply moving testament to a world long-since gone. --Gary S. Dalkin
Recorded: July 1977, Abbey Road Studios, London *Two selections from Prokofiev Op. 75: first release on CD The album, which represented both the conductor’s and the pianist’s debuts on the HMV label, is the earliest Rattle recording in the Warner Classics catalogue. When it was originally released in 1978, Gramophone said: “... However high your expectations may be, I would be surprised to learn that they were disappointed ... This newcomer is second to none in both works,” and praised the young Rattle as “a conductor of keen responsiveness and sensitivity.” The recording went on to win a Gramophone Award in 1979.
青年時期的西蒙·拉特爾
2006年西蒙·拉特爾指揮柏林愛樂樂團