Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle | Classical review

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Berlin Philharmonic and Simon Rattle were the hottest orchestral ticket of this summer's Proms, and for at least three-quarters of their two programmes, they sounded as if they fully deserved to be.Friday night's two symphonies, Beethoven's Fourth and Mahler's First, started in strikingly similar fashion: a sustained unity, with a melodic line stepping tentatively down. A new listener would have had no idea what was next, and that is how Rattle seemed to want us all ...

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