Adès and Bruckner: Rattle and his Bavarians arrive at the Proms

Sir Simon Rattle present Thomas Adès with the gold medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle

By Roy Westbrook, 06 September 2024

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“teemed with deeply cultured playing, and closed with an electrifying coda”

Reviewed at Royal Albert Hall, London on 5 September 2024

Adès, Aquifer (UK premiere)

Bruckner, Symphony no. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic", WAB 104

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle, Conductor

Vivid Janáček and flowing Bruckner from Rattle and the BRSO

Roy Westbrook, 12th November

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conclude the UK leg of their European tour at the Barbican, pairing Janáček’s Taras Bulba with Bruckner's Seventh Symphony.

*****

Sir Simon Rattle opens the Bavarian RSO tour on his home turf

Rohan Shotton, 10th November

Sir Simon Rattle returns to Liverpool to conduct his new orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, in Schumann and Stravinsky.

*****

Rattle and the BRSO offer a glimmer of hope in epic Mahler 6

Nick Boston, 6th September

Stunning orchestral colour from the BRSO, with command and total coherency from Sir Simon Rattle in Mahler's “Tragic” Symphony.

*****

Rattle and the Bavarian RSO return to Carnegie Hall

Susan Stempleski, 3rd May

Winding up his inaugural tour with the BRSO, new Chief Conductor Sir Simon Rattle delivered a superbly performed program of Wagner, Adès and Beethoven.

****1

Sir Simon Rattle brings the BRSO to Philadelphia in Mahler 6

Cameron Kelsall, 1st May

After an eight-year absence, Rattle returned to deliver the kind of Mahler performance only he can offer: probingly intelligent and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

*****

Rattle's penultimate instalment of the Ring cycle in Hamburg

Alexander Hall, 8th February

A long stellar night of supremely assured singing and playing in Wagner's Siegfried, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle on top form.

*****

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.

An Adès premiere and Bruckner's Fourth: Rattle and his Bavarians arrive at the Proms