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Sir Simon Rattle on Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
Season opening 2016: Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
The press described this evening with Simon Rattle conducting Mahler’s Seventh Symphony as a “spectacular concert that started the 2016/2017 season with a bang”. According to the composer, the work has a “predominantly cheerful character”, but this optimism always remains fragile, ambiguous, on the edge of the abyss. The concert opened with Pierre Boulez’ Éclat – a concentrated work of tonally sensual sophistication.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
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