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Simon Rattle’s LSO directorial debut brilliantly captured in no-frills film

‘There are no visual gimmicks, no additional features, and not even the titles of the works in the programme are shown’

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By Freya Parr

Published: October 23, 2019 at 10:59 am

‘There are no visual gimmicks, no additional features, and not even the titles of the works in the programme are shown’

This is Rattle
Works by Elgar, Knussen, Thomas Adès, Harrison Birtwistle and Helen Grime (DVD)
Christian Tetzlaff (violin); LSO/Sir Simon Rattle
LSO Live LSO3066 115 mins

Freya Parr

Digital Editor and Staff Writer, BBC Music Magazine

Freya Parr is BBC Music Magazine's Digital Editor and Staff Writer. She has also written for titles including the Guardian, Circus Journal, Frankie and Suitcase Magazine, and runs The Noiseletter, a fortnightly arts and culture publication. Freya's main areas of interest and research lie in 20th-century and contemporary music.

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