Sir Simon Rattle and the Orchestra Academy perform Mahler’s “Das Lied von der Erde”
In this concert, chief conductor Sir Simon Rattle performed Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde with the young scholarship holders in an arrangement for chamber orchestra that poignantly accentuates the intimate, human expression of the work. The concert opened with Hans Werner Henze’s Second Violin Concerto.
Karajan Academy of the Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Guy Braunstein
Magdalena Kožená
Andrew Staples
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