Simon Rattle (1955-)

[ultralinear]

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Interesting.  I saw him conduct this as part of a mixed program spanning several eras, and thought it very convincing and by far the best part of the evening.

[Karl Henning]

Interesting.  I saw him conduct this as part of a mixed program spanning several eras, and thought it very convincing and by far the best part of the evening.

Nice!

[Number Six]

Rattle's Berlin Mahler 2 was the first Mahler that spoke to me. I had tried M before, but it never got through.

This one did, and it opened the floodgates of the composer's work. I will always love Rattle for that. Another day, I suppose it might have been Bernstein or Solti or Fischer or Chailly or Haitink or Vanska or Walter.

But it was Rattle who did it for me.

[lordlance]

Interesting.  I saw him conduct this as part of a mixed program spanning several eras, and thought it very convincing and by far the best part of the evening.

It's his "thing" -- programming works consecutively without pauses.

A common one is Ligeti Atmospheres+Wagner Lohengrin Prelude to Act I.
Another is Sibelius 6-7.
The 'pieces' trilogy together - Webern, Berg, Arnold - for a giant single Pieces - 

During rehearsal, he and the orchestra had come to realise that the sets by Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg were best understood as one great, eleventh symphony by Mahler.