Simon Rattle - Softcover

Kenyon CBE, Sir Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571147976 ISBN 13: 9780571147977

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1989

Synopsis

This account of a year in the life of Simon Rattle, the most gifted young conductor of his generation, includes interviews with family, friends and colleagues (amongst others mentor John Carewe, composer Oliver Knussen) as well as with Rattle himself who speaks frankly about his aims for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, describes his hopes for the future and looks back on his meteoric rise which has made him one of the most sought after conductors in the world. The author is a regular broadcaster and is a member of the Music Advisory Panel of the Arts Council of Great Britain.

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Review

'..the new book tells Rattle's story thoroughly and compellingly...as an introductory guide to the musical politics of the concert world, the record industry and post-unification Berlin Kenyon is unsurpassed. Above all, we discover a conductor who believes as passionately as ever that great music and music-making really matter to humankind - for that alone, much thanks.' -- Number One Book of 2001 for BBC Music Magazine

'Rattle's is a story that will run and run ... this book will have you on the edge of your seat.' -- Financial Times October 2001

'Tells Rattle's story thoroughly and compellingly..a conductor who believes as passionately as ever that great music and music-making really matter.' -- BBC Music Magazine December 2001 issue

A perspicacious portrait of a brilliantly endowed musician ...Rattle is indeed the characteristic conductor of the 21st century.' -- Sunday Times November 2001

This account will fascinate from start to mid-breath finish - a fine study of a fertile subject.' -- Observer November 2001

From the Back Cover

Simon Rattle, the most brilliant British conductor of his generation, has been appointed Music Director of one of the world's greatest orchestras, the Berlin Philharmonic, from 2002. Nicholas Kenyon's acclaimed biography of Simon Rattle - which first appeared in 1986 - has been rewritten and expanded with new chapters charting Rattle's move from his eighteen years' historic partnership with the City of Birmingham Symphony to his new post in Berlin.
What is the secret of his success, which has propelled him from being a Liverpool schoolboy with a fierce enthusiasm for getting orchestras together to his present stature as an internationally sought-after musician? The first version of Nicholas Kenyon's biography - published in l986 - has been rewritten, expanded and updated, including revealing new interviews with the conductor and his friends and colleagues, as Rattle takes on the music directorship of the Berlin Philharmonic, one of the world's greatest orchestras. Kenyon talks extensively to Rattle, asks friends and colleagues about the gifts that make Rattle one of the most powerful musical communicators of our time, and look at the challenges that await him in Berlin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571147976
• ISBN 13: 9780571147977
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256