Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 / Rattle · Berliner Philharmoniker

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Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 / Sir Simon Rattle, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 22 May 2010

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• Classical
• Sibelius
• Symphony
• Symphonie
• Sinfonie
• Simon Rattle
• Berliner Philharmoniker
• Berlin Philharmonic
• Berlin Phil
• BPO
• Orchestra
• Orchester

[CarlViola]

1.33 Dude the toilet can wait - this is the stuff life is for!!

[jason95014]

with rattle, you hear a much more thoughtful tone than one could've with karajan. karajan played through intensity, but rattle plays through passion and his entire soul.

simply amazing.

[saxfreak01]

Excellent and MILES better than Rattle's very, very poor studio version with the CBSO. He needs to record it again now he's got a feel for it. This version of the hymn section from the 7th is still just a tad slow for my tastes but at least he now gets the sheer lyric rhapsodic beauty of this part of the piece spot on (very unlike the CBSO version where he turns it into a lifeless dirge).

[BrucknerMotet]

@TheJoyfulPianist I've been stuck on 2 and 5 for some time (and Gould's version of Opus 67) but now I'm locked into the 7 with several replays and I can't get enough (almost like Bruckner's 7th in terms of being locked in). There's more than enough pith there for any Brucknerian, and yet, there's a wholesale authenticity to the 7th's nobility of expression that fulfills so well. I see why you've opted to grace your wall with Jean's intense visage.

[kontrapunkti]

Janne!!

[mfealy]

Check out Bernstein's version of this with VPO...amazing

[TheJoyfulPianist]

my favorite moment in music. I have never been brought higher. There's a reason why I have Sibelius' photo on my wall.

[412836]

Listen to Koussevitzky's Seventh sometime. It is searing in its intensity!

[412836]

Jason very good comments except Furtwaengler was who made Berlin great, NOT Karajan. He simply closed his eyes and posed for the camera. Such was his vanity.

[basstboneman06]

Goosebumps, hairs standing on end, shivers, electricity.  All felt at the same time. Simply marvelous.

[Numboss]

@jason95014 Thanks for your reply. To modify my original comment I have to admit to once possessing several Sibelius LPs, conducted by a then very young Simon Rattle (with the Birmingham SO, if my memory serves me right). This was back in the early 1980s, when I first became a Sibelius addict. They were very excellent recordings and at the time I would have never guessed Rattle would eventually take the helm of the very orchestra Karajan made famous. Berlin is very lucky to have Sir Simon.

[jason95014]

@Numboss haha... dont get me wrong. i have nothing but admiration for karajan's music. it's just that he and rattle have very opposing styles. and you're completely right, it is a matter of taste... but no doubt that rattles a terrific conductor. peace. :)