This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It is not easy to create a sensation with the Brahms symphonies. These ...

Conductor Raphaël Pichon and Pygmalion deliver a performance on period instruments of high technical standards ...

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Maestro conductor Sir Simon Rattle, who has recently concentrated on more modern works with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, is bringing four Brahms symphonies to Korea for the first time. Sir Simon ...

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On the morning after conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in two concerts at Carnegie Hall recently, Simon Rattle was in a car on the way to Boston and dialed up a reporter in California. “Oh, don’t ...

Each time Simon Rattle brings his Berlin Philharmonic to town is a further opportunity to discover how much he has changed this great orchestra, and how much it has changed him. Their return to a ...

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This concert by the London Symphony Orchestra had the appearance of a dual celebratory function, marking as it did both the centenary of Pierre Boulez, one of the towering figures of music in the last ...