John Halbrooks asks:

>I have yet to see any comments on Sir Simon getting the Berlin job, but
>perhaps I have just overlooked them.  So I guess I will open the can of
>worms.  What kind of recordings and performances can we expect from this
>musical marriage?

Since you ask, let me hazard the following: under Rattle the BPO's
center of musical gravity will shift from its longtime attempt to dominate
the mastery of the Bach-Beethoven-Brahms-Bruckner skein of CM, to the
attainment of mastery of the things that Rattle likes to play.  In the end,
I prophesy in a small voice, the BPO will emerge a great orchestra like a
score of others.

Denis Fodor                             Internet:[log in to unmask]