Conductor Simon Rattle 's name is synonymous with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, but over the years he has worked with many other orchestras, in this country and abroad. Michael Birkett presents an eight-part series looking at some of these collaborations.
2: Rotterdam Philharmonic
Rattle first conducted this orchestra in 1978 and immediately took to what he describes as their "wild and cosmopolitan" qualities. For a time he was their principal guest conductor, and he still performs with them regularly. Michael Birkett talks to the conductor about the orchestra - and vice versa. Including excerpts from a 1981 concert featuring Haydn's
Symphony No 22 in E flat (Philosopher), Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No 2 in D minor with Shlomo Mintz and Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody, and a 1982 performance of Schoenberg's arrangement of Brahms's Piano Quartet No 1.