Interview
Sir Simon Rattle on Mahlers Symphony No. 8
Simon Rattle conducts Mahler’s “Symphony of a Thousand”
The choirs stretched into the audience galleries when Simon Rattle conducted a much applauded and cheered performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand in 2011. Even the premiere in 1910 attended by Siegfried Wagner, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, Bruno Walter, Stefan Zweig and Thomas Mann was the most triumphant success in the life of Mahler. And the composer himself felt the symphony to be “the grandest thing I have done yet”.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Knaben des Staats- und Domchors Berlin
© 2011 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
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