Season opening 2008: Simon Rattle conducts Brahms and Shostakovich
The Berliner Philharmoniker and Simon Rattle opened the 2008/2009 season with two of the most different symphonies imaginable. On the one hand, Brahms’s Third, about which Clara Schumann wrote that one is “surrounded by the mysterious magic of life in the forest”, and on the other, the darkly aggressive Tenth Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich. The recording from August 2008 is the first made by the Digital Concert Hall team.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
© 2008 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Our recommendations
- Simon Rattle conducts Schumann’s “Paradise and the Peri”
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- Simon Rattle conducts Messiaen’s “Turangalîla-Symphonie”
- A Schumann evening with Simon Rattle and Mitsuko Uchida
- Simon Rattle conducts Brahms’s Symphonies No. 3 and 4
- Simon Rattle conducts Bruckner’s Ninth and Schreker’s Chamber Symphony
