The Latest Breaking News from Simon Rattle

Simon Rattle: UK classical music is fighting for life after ‘swingeing’ funding cuts

The outgoing director of the London Symphony Orchestra says that cuts by Arts Council England and the BBC risk destroying the entire sector

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2023

BBC Singers/LSO review – music, and words, of power as Rattle protests vandalism of UK’s musical life

Superbly executed Mahler was given fire by the addition of Poulenc’s work from the just saved BBC Singers – and a fierce attack on arts funding by the conductor

The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2023

Leading German magazine declares UK a nation on life support

The country ‘has dialed 999 and is waiting in vain for the paramedics to show up’ says the title

Evening Standard · Apr 24, 2023

CBSO/Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla at the Barbican review: the conductor brought a bright, edgy, in-your-face sound

Gražinytė-Tyla’s whiplash rhythms served the pieces well

Evening Standard · Mar 17, 2023

Katya Kabanova review – Rattle and Majeski capture the rapture and chaos of Janáček’s turbulent love story

The LSO are on ravishing form, perfectly blending the lyricism and intensity of the score, while the whole cast deliver singing of the highest calibre

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2023

The best new music to look forward to in 2023

Yo La Tengo, Billy Nomates, Låpsley and Paramore have hotly anticipated albums due out – while the BBCSO puts on an Everest opera and Simon Rattle waves goodbye to the Barbican

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2022

‘It’s OK to take risks in concerts because there it’s safe to do so’: Conductor Daniel Harding on his double life as an airline pilot

He’s been on the podium with the world’s leading orchestras but, he says, his new parallel career flying for Air France has taught him things he never learned in 30 years of music making

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2022

Scramble for new royal figureheads begins among Britain’s arts organisations

Britain’s creative institutions are poised to compete for the most familiar faces to act as patrons – and maximise potential funding

The Guardian - UK · Sep 18, 2022

The songs chosen by orchestras and choirs around the country as tributes to the Queen

The works of English composers were tribute favourites

Evening Standard · Sep 16, 2022

London Symphony Orchestra perform national anthem in tribute to the Queen

The Queen had been a patron of the orchestra since her accession to the throne in 1952.

The Independent UK · Sep 12, 2022