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Simon Rattle in conversation with Vesa Sirén
Simon Rattle conducts Sibelius’s Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
“Clear-sighted and fervent” was how the press described the interpretation of all Sibelius’s symphonies presented by the Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle in February 2015. On this first night of the cycle, the programme included the First and the Second Symphonies – decidedly late Romantic works whose expressiveness is likely to have been inspired by Tchaikovsky’s only slightly older Pathétique.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
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