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Radio 3 Live in Concert: Celebrating Simon Rattle

Radio 3 Live in Concert: Celebrating Simon Rattle: Episode 1

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Episode 1

Celebrating Simon Rattle

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, Celebrating Simon Rattle, Episode 1

Simon Rattle conducts the CBSO and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a concert given in Frankfurt. Beethoven: Symphony No 1; Symphony No 3.

Celebrating Simon Rattle: the complete Beethoven symphony cycle from 1995 recorded in Frankfurt with the CBSO.

Presented by Tom Service

Beethoven: Symphony No 1
Symphony No 3
CBSO
Conductor Simon Rattle

This cycle of Beethoven Symphonies and Overtures was recorded in Frankfurt when Sir Simon Rattle was Chief Conductor of the CBSO, and has never been broadcast before. It is a fascinating record of one of the most successful partnerships between conductor and orchestra in the history of British music.

Part 2:

Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle, conductor

Schoenberg: Accompaniment to a Film Scene
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle, conductor.

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Tom Service celebrates Simon Rattle with a complete Beethoven symphony cycle from 1995

Tom Service celebrates conductor Simon Rattle with a complete Beethoven symphony cycle from 1995. He leads the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Frankfurt in a hitherto unbroadcast performance

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