Bob Kasenchak ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Patrik Enander asks:
>
>>Could anyone on the list recommend me other fine Rattle-interpretations?
>
>Plus I second his Mahler 4.  Very nicely done.

NHot sure about Amanda R in the finale, though.  I heartily second the
Grainger recommendation, a suberp disc in every way.

His new Mahler 2 will be exceptional, judging by the tape I heard of the
performance it's taken from.  His Mahler 3 is excellent until the closing
pages where alas he, like Barbirolli and several others, apparently feels
the need to rush, as if apologising for the music.

In the tv sreies Leaving Home, Orchestral Music in the 20th Century, Rattle
displayed at least an idiomatic familiarity with, inter alia, Schoenberg,
Berg, Webern, Messiaen, Ives, Carter, Bartok, Lutoslawski...

His Nielsen 4 isn't at all bad and his Sibelius cycle is more than
competent - and the 7th is excellent.

Rattle has, I submit, demonstrated that he is a) a superb orchestral
trainer b) a highly gifted conductor of c) wide sympathies.  The BPO
have chosen wisely.

Deryk Barker
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