Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra: A British man returns home – tagesspiegel

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In September 2017 Simon Rattle is Music Director of the London Symphony Orchestra. Contrary to expectations, takes over the British conductor after his time with the Berliner Philharmoniker but again a top job.

The principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle, takes over from September 2017 the post of music director of the London Symphony Orchestra. “It feels like coming home,” said the 60-year-old Briton on Tuesday in London. Although he was leaving a world-class orchestra, “but I’m going to a world-class orchestra of a very different type ‘. He could imagine “no better and more inspiring” In the next few years.

Rattle since 2002 at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic. Two years ago he had announced not to extend his contract, which runs until the summer of 2018. From autumn 2017 to farewell in Berlin, he’ll be active in both cities, he said.

During the 2017/18 season he wants to be nine weeks in London, Berlin as a priority. Full unfaithful will rattle the German capital probably still does not: He wants to live with his family on there. “I can not currently imagine not live in Berlin,” he said.
Rattle is married to the Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená, the couple has three children. From his first marriage has Rattle two children.

In London Rattle want to make it their mission to teach music to a wider audience. “. We have to be evangelists, and not only High Priest” about his time in Berlin, he said: “There was not a single day that I did not learn ten new things.” It was fascinating to work in another culture. The Philharmonic had accepted his decision “very generous”. Select on May 11, a new chief conductor. dpa