Sir Simon Rattle & Peter Moore

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Why Ravel’s La Valse is the most performed work in the world

Tristan Labouret, 5th January

Our statistics for 2022 show that the French composer's work has dethroned the great hits of classical music. Is this a one-off triumph or the start of a lasting dominance? We explain...

Whole in one: Sibelius’ Seventh

Matthew Rye, 24th November

Cast in a single span lasting little more than 20 minutes, Sibelius’ Seventh Symphony is a miracle of compression and defies conventional analysis.

Blast from the past: Rattle and the LSO deliver a showstopper

Chris Garlick, 15th September

Conducting a programme of mostly 20th-century classics that could have come from his early glory days in Birmingham, Rattle was in his element.

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