Interview
Mark-Anthony Turnage in conversation with Sarah Willis Simon Rattle conducts Dvořák, Turnage and Brahms
Rarely is classical music as cheerful as in the serenades of the 18th century. Simon Rattle shows at this concert how ingeniously the genre was taken up in the late romantic era. Thus, for instance, Antonín Dvořák expanded traditional forms in his wind serenade to include Bohemian colours. Johannes Brahms, whose Serenade No. 2 has almost symphonic dimensions, went even one step further. There is also a new work by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
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