Simon Rattle: From Birmingham to Berlin
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"Tells Rattle's story thoroughly and compellingly . . . as an introductory guide to the musical politics of the concert world, the record industry, and post-unification Berlin, Kenyon is unsurpassed. Above all, we discover a conductor who believes as passionately as ever that great music and music-making really matter to humankind--for that alone, much thanks."
--BBC Music Magazine
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Still only in his mid-forties, Simon Rattle is a musician for the new century, equally at home conducting Beethoven symphonies, the twentieth-century repertory with which he made his reputation with the City of Birmingham Orchestra, new works he has commissioned, jazz by Ellington and Bernstein, or baroque opera. Nicholas Kenyon charts the whole of Rattle's career as this master musician prepares to take on the music directorship of the Berlin Philharmonic, perhaps the most prestigious position in all of classical music, and looks ahead to the challenges that await him in Berlin.
Simon Rattle: From Birmingham to Berlin,Nicholas Kenyon,Faber & Faber,0571205488,Classical,Conducting,Genres & Styles - Classical,Genres & Styles - Jazz,History & Criticism - General,Instruction & Study - Conducting,Music,Biography: film, television & music,Composers & musicians,Music / Classical
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