Rattle and the Bavarian RSO return to Carnegie Hall

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Sir Simon Rattle

By Susan Stempleski, 05 May 2024

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“a fresh and direct reading of this familiar work”

Reviewed at Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium, New York City on 3 May 2024

Wagner, Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod

Adès, Aquifer (US premiere)

Beethoven, Symphony no. 6 in F major "Pastoral", Op.68

Dvořák, Slavonic Dance no. 15 in C major, Op.72 no.7

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.

*****

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

Roy Westbrook, 5th September

Sir Simon Rattle awards Thomas Adès a Royal Philharmonic Society medal during the first visit this summer of the BRSO to the BBC Proms.

****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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Susan Stempleski

Based in New York City, Susan is a retired specialist in second and foreign language teaching and the author/editor of several professional books for language teachers and many widely used textbooks for English language learners around the world. An avid concertgoer, she spends her time attending operas and other classical music events in New York and Paris. Since 2002, she has regularly published reviews on Classical Source. A keen Francophile, she has a particularly strong interest in French music, literature and film.

Sir Simon Rattle and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra return to Carnegie Hall