Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle – review

Royal Festival Hall, LondonSimon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic's London residency closed with Mahler's Third Symphony, one of music's grandest statements.Conceived on the greatest of scales, it attempts to portray the entire universe, beginning with raw matter and ending with God, or love, which to Mahler was the same thing. The most ambitious of his symphonies, it is also his most diffuse. Interpretations that forge a consistent unity from it are rare.Rattle's performance, though formidabl...

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