Performer: Gerard McBurney

Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO give an orchestral performance to remember, with a fine singing cast, but Simon McBurney's staging dials the bleakness to maximum too early.

Trying to rekindle the public’s interest for a rarely played work, Salonen and his collaborators took an unusual approach.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic under Salonen look back at the dwindling twilight years of the Weimar Republic.