When you hear Sir Simon Rattle talk about Gustav Mahler, it sounds as if he knew the composer personally. But that is probably how it feels when, like the chief conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, you’ve been studying and performing the Late Romantic composer’s deeply personal and autobiographical music for more than 50 years. Mahler once said that his symphonies contained a whole world – and no one can guide orchestra and audience alike through these intricate worlds better than Sir Simon Rattle.
PERFORMERS
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks orchestra
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks choir
Louise Alder soprano
Beth Taylor mezzo-soprano
Sir Simon Rattle conductor
PROGRAM
Henry Purcell
Remember Not Lord Our Offences, Z 50
Robert Schumann
Nachtlied for Mixed Choir and Orchestra, Op. 108
Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 2 in C minor for Soprano, Alto, Choir and Orchestra »Resurrection Symphony«
