In my next Lebrecht Interview on BBC Radio 3, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle talks frankly about his often-turbulent 16 years at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. “You try lots of things,” […]
Handel: Giustino – Esme Bronwen-Smith, Polly Leech, Kelly Fuge, Mireille Asselin, Benjamin Hulett (with bag over his head) – La Nuova Musica at Royal Opera House (Photo: Marc Brenner) Handel: Giustino; Polly Leech, Mireille Asselin, […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: The seventh was the least understood of Mahler’s symphonies and the last to get recorded. Bruno Walter, Mahler’s closest apostle, never performed it. Otto Klemperer, next in line, […]