An eight-part series exploring Simon Rattle 's work with orchestras other than the CBSO.
6: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Rattle first conducted the LAPO in 1979, and it is the American orchestra with which he has had the closest relationship. Michael Birkett introduces a concert from 1986 in which they perform Haydn's Symphony No 90, Ravel's Sheherazade with Maria Ewing and Mozart's Mass in C minor (Great) with the Los Angeles
Master Chorale and soloists Barbara
Hendricks, Maria Ewing , Jerry Hadley and David Thomas. With comments from players, Simon Rattle , Maria Ewing and Ernest Fleischmann.
The Simon Rattle series Leaving Home is on Sundays at 9.00pm on Channel 4