It was the last guest orchestra to visit the Kimmel this season.
Savage, sardonic and breathtaking: Simon Rattle and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra play the KimmelIn a world of quick hits and superficial encounters, Simon Rattle is a musical deep dive.
Rattle has always seemed like a perfectly nice person, but after the way he handled the third movement you had to wonder about his more sardonic side. The music is marked “scherzo” and then “wuchtig” , but the two side by side met emphatically at “savage.” Horns laughed mockingly, the woodwinds jabbed at the air, and the violas, an instrumental section that normally sounds merely worried, bared their teeth.
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