Simon Rattle: From Birmingham to Berlin - Couverture souple

Kenyon CBE, Sir Nicholas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571212441 ISBN 13 : 9780571212446

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 2002

Synopsis

The most brilliant British conductor of his generation, Simon Rattlehas brought thrilling music-making to audiences around the world. Still in his mid-forties, Rattle became Music Director of the Berlin Philharmonic in 2002. What is the secret of his success, which has propelled him from being a Liverpool schoolboy with a fierce enthusiasm for getting orchestras together to his present stature as an internationally sought-after musician? Rattle is a musician for our times: a symphonic conductor with a repertory from Beethoven through to the present day, he is equally at home with the jazz of Duke Ellington and Leonard Bernstein, the historic performance practice of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, new music and the world of children's music education. Nicholas Kenyon's biography, first published in l986 to critical acclaim, is fully updated and expanded with new chapters charting Rattle's move from his eighteen years' historic partnership with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra to his new post in Berlin. Kenyon also talks to friends and colleagues about what makes Rattle one of the most powerful musical communicators of our time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Nicholas Kenyon has been Managing Director of the Barbican Centre since 2007. He was Director of the BBC Proms from 1996 to 2007, and Controller, BBC Radio 3, from 1992 to 1998. He read History at Balliol College, Oxford, and his first post was with the English Bach Festival 1973-6. He was a music critic for The New Yorker, The Times, and the Observer, and has written the history of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the biography of Simon Rattle, edited the influential volume Authenticity and Early Music, and co-edited The Proms: A New History. He is a member of the boards of English National Opera and Sage Gateshead, a Trustee of Dartington Hall and a member of Arts Council England.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571212441
• ISBN 13: 9780571212446
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
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