Interview
The Berliner Philharmoniker: opening of the 2011/12 season
Simon Rattle opens the 2011/12 season with Mahler’s Seventh Symphony
With this “unrelentingly brilliant” (Berliner Morgenpost) performance of Gustav Mahler’s Seventh Symphony, Simon Rattle opened the Philharmoniker’s 2011/2012 season. The most striking movement of the work is undoubtedly the overwhelming, celebratory finale. More nuanced, on the other hand, are the middle movements which conjure up a unique nocturnal atmosphere, full of poetry and nature, with a ghostly scherzo at its centre.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
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