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Beethoven: Christ on the Mount of Olives / Dreisig, Breslik, Soar, Rattle, LSO
This recording by Sir Simon Rattle, with acclaimed singers Elsa Dreisig, Pavol Breslik and David Soar was made during the London Symphony Orchestra’s celebration of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary.
“When I came to the Mount of Olives, I immediately was simply puzzled. Why isn’t this piece played? Of course, it’s a mixed piece and there are weird flaws and edges but so there are in the Ninth Symphony, they’re part of the personality.
“It’s a fascinating moment in his life when he was starting really to deal with his hearing loss. He’d written the Heiligenstadt Testament, where he really confessed to his suicidal thoughts on losing the single-most important ability a musician could have. There is a kind of unearthly, underground sensation of some of it, there’s also a real feeling of naive belief in the possibility of things being better. I think it is completely heaven.” - Sir Simon Rattle
“What Rattle made clear is that the music is full of life. It is hard to imagine this performance being bettered.” - Financial Times ? “Backed by London Symphony Chorus, the soloists in this performance are well up to the challenge, bass David Soar providing the grounding over which tenor Pavol Breslik, as Jesus, sings out with noble plangency, while the sound of soprano Elsa Dreisig, as the Seraph, rings angelically through the hall.” - The Independent
“Christ on the Mount of Olives is full of things to appreciate: there’s an anticipation of the heroism in the face of darkness that would characterise Fidelio, but there are also passages that hark back to the best of Mozart” - Bachtrack
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY
BEETHOVEN: PIANO CONCERTO NO.2 TRIPLE CONCERTO
STRAVINSKY BALLETS
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO.6
NAZARENO
QUARTET QUINTET
MUSIC OF KING'S
TURN OF THE SCREW
SYMPHONIES 1-4
SYMPHONY 4
TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONY NO.5 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: KITEZH
PAGANINI: 24 CAPRICES
BEETHOVEN: VIOLIN CONCERTO
STRAUSS: ALSO SPRACH ZARATHUSTRA; DEBUSSY: JEUX
SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONIES NOS.
SHOSTAKOVICH: SYMPHONIES NOS.6 & 15
Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe / Rattle, London Symphony Orchestra [Blu-ray]
Comprising exquisite French delights, this performance by Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO was filmed live at the orchestra's home in the Barbican. Framing Dutilleux's and Delage's mysterious and exotic works are Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin and his sumptuous second suite from Daphnis et Chloe. An incomparable Leonidas Kavakos proves the ideal soloist for Dutilleux's modern masterpiece, and the luxurious voice of Julia Bullock, making her debut with the orchestra, radiates in Delage's hidden gem.
BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO.7
THIS IS RATTLE BR
VIOLIN CONCERTOS NOS. 1, 2 & 3
OCEAN FLOOR
ELGAR: SYMPHONIES NOS.1-3 ENIGMA VARIATIONS CELLO
Janacek: The Cunning Little Vixen & Sinfonietta / Rattle, LSO
A 2021 GRAMMY Nominee for Best Opera Recording!

Melodious and charming, The Cunning Little Vixen is a work rooted in Czech history and folk music; a sentimental journey through the cycles of life. For Sir Simon Rattle, it’s a deeply personal and emotional work. "It’s the piece that made me want to become an opera conductor... and still one of the pieces that reduces me to tears more easily than any other," says the LSO's Music Director. Towering fanfares open Janá?ek’s Sinfonietta, an ode to the composer’s hometown of Brno in the now Czech Republic. It’s a portrait composed for a national celebration of Slavic culture, with Janá?ek’s love of musical tradition evident in dancing strings and celebratory brass.
