Simon Rattle: The Berlin Years [45CD Box Set] (2024) MP3

The chemistry between tradition and innovation powered Sir Simon Rattle’s relationship with the Berliner Philharmoniker, above all during his time as the orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director (2002-2018). As the successor to Wilhelm Furtwängler, Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, his mission was to take this pre-eminent musical institution into the 21st century. “What Rattle has brought … is a new spirit of adventure,” declared The Times in 2006, and later looked back on the “exhilarating, epoch-hopping eclecticism of Simon Rattle’s era in Berlin”. Through all this Rattle preserved the orchestra’s distinctive sonority, notable, in the words of the New York Times, for its “sheer grandeur … and rich, red-blooded warmth”. He first conducted the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1987, and the recordings in this 45CD box span the years from 1994 to 2012. Very much reflecting Rattle’s vision for the orchestra, the symphonic, choral and operatic works range from pillars of Austro-German Classicism, Romanticism and Modernism through French, Russian and Czech repertoire to showcases for contemporary contemporary composers from around the world – and even a film soundtrack. As Rattle said at the end of his tenure in Berlin: “Music is for everybody, and we’ve all believed this.”

CD01 - Franz Liszt - A Faust Symphony - 1994 -[68:52]
CD02 - Gustav Mahler - Symphony no.10 - 1999 -[77:24]
CD03 - Arnold Schoenberg - Gurrelieder - 2001 -[59:41]
CD04 - Arnold Schoenberg - Gurrelieder - 2001 -[50:24]
CD05 - Gustav Mahler - Symphony no.5 - 2002 -[69:04]
CD06 - Beethoven - Fidelio - 2003 -[65:56]
CD07 - Beethoven - Fidelio - 2003 -[44:13]
CD08 - Messiaen - Eclairs - 2004 -[60:21]
CD09 - Orff - Carmina Burana - 2004 -[59:14]
CD10 - Dvorak - Tone Poems - 2004 -[48:46]
CD11 - Dvorak - Tone Poems - 2004 -[34:58]
CD12 - Debussy - La Mer, La Boite, Three Preludes - 2004 -[78:46]
CD13 - Britten - Les Illuminations, Serenade, Nocturne - 2005 -[74:54]
CD14 - Strauss - Ein Heldenleben, Le Bourgeouis Gentilhomme - 2005 -[81:57]
CD15 - Schubert - Symphony no.9 - 2005 -[57:43]
CD16 - Shostakovich, Prokofiev - Violin Concertos - 2005 -[59:35]
CD17 - Shostakovich - Symphony no.14 - 2005 -[53:58]
CD18 - Shostakovich - Symphony n.1 - 2005 -[32:08]
CD19 - Holst, Matthews - Planets - 2006 -[57:24]
CD20 - Saariaho, Pintscher, etc - Planets - 2006 -[49:09]
CD21 - Tykwer - The Perfume Soundtrack - 2006 -[70:04]
CD22 - Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem - 2006 -[67:06]
CD23 - Bruckner - Symphony no.4 - 2006 -[71:18]
CD24 - Haydn - Symphonies no.88-90 - 2007 -[75:39]
CD25 - Haydn - Symphonies no.91-92, Sinfonia concertante - 2007 -[69:27]
CD26 - Nielsen - Flute and Clarinet Concertos, Wind Quintet - 2006 -[69:21]
CD27 - Mussorgsky, Borodin - 2007 -[74:29]
CD28 - Mahler - Symphony no.9 - 2007 -[44:52]
CD29 - Mahler, Barber - Symphony no.9, Adagio - 2007 -[47:42]
CD30 - Stravinsky - Symphonies -[75:33]
CD31 - Berlioz - Symphonie fantastique, La Mort de Cleopatre - 2008 -[75:58]
CD32 - Ravel - L'Enfant, Ma Mere -[73:00]
CD33 - Brahms - Symphony no.1 - 2008 -[44:54]
CD34 - Brahms - Symphonies 2 and 3 - 2008 -[79:10]
CD35 - Brahms - Symphony no.4 - 2008 -[42:19]
CD36 - Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - 2009 -[43:47]
CD37 - Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker - 2009 -[42:37]
CD38 - Mahler - Symphony no.2 - 2010 -[24:14]
CD39 - Mahler - Symphony no.2 - 2010 -[62:06]
CD40 - Brahms, Schoenberg - 2009 -[73:41]
CD41 - Bruckner - Symphony no.9 - 2012 -[82:09]
CD42 - Bizet - Carmen - 2012 -[71:41]
CD43 - Bizet - Carmen - 2012 -[78:06]
CD44 - Stravinsky - Sacre du printemps, Apollon musagete - 2012 -[75:35]
CD45 - Rachmaninoff - Bells, Symphonic Dances - 2012 -[71:36]

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