NEW YORK (AP) - For Sir Simon Rattle, Beethoven was, of course, brilliant. And perhaps crazy. How much of the composer's creativity was tied to his loss of hearing? "If he had not been so cut off from ...

The National Portrait Gallery has acquired an unpublished photograph of the British conductor Sir Simon Rattle. Rory Coonan took the portrait in 1982 on film, using a 150-year-old plate camera. The ...

Sir Simon Rattle has expressed his despair about the future of classical music in Britain in an interview with The Times. The 68-year-old conductor said "The BBC and Arts Council England [ACE], the ...

Germany has many orchestras, just as it should, given the history of music. The No. 1 orchestra in Germany, undoubtedly, is the Berlin Philharmonic. What is No. 2? I will not hazard to rank (beyond ...

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in a celebration of Duke Ellington’s music. Each impressive orchestration has been reworked by Luther Henderson to provide a full ...

In Simon Rattle’s Farewell Concert: Mahler’s 6th Symphony, the conductor says goodbye. Sir Simon Rattle began his work with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1987 by conducting Gustav Mahler's 6th ...

The Berlin Philharmonic, on its final American tour with its outgoing chief conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, filled Symphony Hall on Friday with a positively circumnavigational program, presented by ...

As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production. By Joshua Barone Not everything was an artistic or audience success ...