Simon Rattle
| Born | January 19, 1955 |
| Hometown | Liverpool, England |
| Spouse | Candace Allen |
| Children | Jonas Rattle, Milos Rattle, Sacha Rattle, Anezka Rattle, Eliot Rattle |
| Parents | Pauline Lila Violet, Denis Guttridge Rattle |
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Barrie Gavin, filmmaker who brought the stars of 20th-century classical music to the small screen
- Barrie Gavin, who has died aged 89, was a prolific filmmaker whose virtuosic videos translated the aural experience of music into sparkling television; he documented leading figures of 20th-century music including Karlheinz Stockhausen, Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez, and enjoyed a long association with Simon Rattle, coaxing the best out of a conductor who initially showed little interest in the medium.
Videos
Conductor Simon Rattle becomes emotional during final LSO performance in Britain
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- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Britain’s greatest living conductor has fled to Berlin – it’s a loss to us all
Simon Rattle is perhaps Britain’s greatest living conductor. He achieved eminence at an age when many in his profession are struggling to feed themselves, becoming assistant conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra at 19, and joining Glyndebourne the following year. He was still only 25 when, in 1980, he was appointed conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He became principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2002, and then music director of the London Symphony Orch
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
BBC unveils 2024 Proms lineup: Daniel Barenboim, Daleks and disco
The 81-year-old conductor makes a rare UK visit with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, while Yo-Yo Ma, Doctor Who, Florence Welch, Sam Smith and Rule, Britannia! all feature
- EntertainmentEvening Standard
LSO/Antonio Pappano at the Barbican review: the incoming director conjured the richest sounds from the players
4/5 If orchestras were football teams, the LSO would certainly be in the running for the Premier League title
- NewsThe Guardian
‘Misguided wokeism’ puts people off opera, says top London conductor
LSO’s Antonio Pappano says many in UK are ‘embarrassed’ by art form and suspicious of cultural achievements
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
British music, birthdays and building work: LSO announce first season under Pappano
Boulez’s 100th and Rattle’s 70th are among the highlights of the LSO’s new season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano in which British music is a strong thread. The orchestra also announced an £8m redevelopment of LSO St Lukes
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Pappano says the way opera is looked on with great suspicion ‘drives me nuts’
Sir Antonio Pappano is the new musical director and chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, replacing Sir Simon Rattle.
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
The week in classical: LSO/ Rattle; The Rake’s Progress; The Flying Dutchman; Elena Urioste and Tom Poster – review
Dread runs through John Adams’s pulsating new ‘short symphony’; Stravinsky’s Rake has plenty of company at ETO; Bryn Terfel returns as the mythical Dutchman; and two lockdown favourites bring the house down
- NewsThe Guardian
Conductor Simon Rattle says cutting UK tax relief for orchestras would be a catastrophe
Plea to protect arts funding as a growing number of city and county councils face bankruptcy
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Pappano finds the blazing drama in Mendelssohn’s Elijah, plus the best of January’s classical concerts
One hundred years ago an American critic, bored to death at a performance of Mendelssohn’s oratorio Elijah, described it as “hopelessly, awfully, irremediably mid-Victorian.”
- EntertainmentThe Guardian
Folk Songs album review – Kožená and Rattle on gleaming, glistening form
The wife-and-husband team’s newest collaboration features Bartók, Berio and Ravel; songs that suit Magdalena Kozena’s voice well
