DVD Video, Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)

The dazzling panache of the LSO’s playing has you wondering all over again at the mesmerising range of options that Adès’s ear and technical command can summon…And Elgar’s Enigma Variations... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Every nuance [of The Rite] is crafted, each detail considered, yet there is still a sense of danger and visceral power…Rattle and the LSO are joined, usurped even, by the extraordinary Barbara... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

In seeing as well as hearing this concert, what comes over is Rattle's love for the music and the orchestra's wholehearted response: it all looks so terribly easy, though of course it's anything... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Flamenco star Cañizares brings nonchalant authority to the Concierto de Aranjuez in a concert fizzing with energy, from a playful Espana to the sweeps of Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Where Rattle and company radiate love, Kissin gives us duty. Still, nothing else casts a chill. Hearing the orchestra's splendours, observing the smiles and eye contact, you'd never believe... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The series was one of the last intelligent contributions to classical music by British television and, even by 1996, one suspects that only a musician of Rattle's stature and determination could... — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

Orchestral concerts al fresco don’t get more spectacular or more wide-spectrum than this. Here are Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic in the Waldbuhne, a ravine-hollowed amphitheatre outside... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…