Sir Simon Rattle

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Fri, Nov 8, 2024, 20:00

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In 2018, Harrison Birtwistle, one of the most influential contemporary British composers, wrote a typically intense, rugged piece lasting less than four minutes (that turned out to be one of his last) and dedicated it to Sir Simon. The piece acts as a fitting opening for the decidedly monumental work that follows: Mahler’s Seventh, to which Rattle turns his attention after having already performed the Sixth and Ninth with the BRSO. Mahler found it particularly difficult to complete the work... Read full text

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Musicians

Sir Simon Rattle	Conductor
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Program

“Donum Simoni MMXVIII” for wind instruments and percussion	Harrison Birtwistle
Symphony No. 7 in E Minor	Gustav Mahler

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