With white hair and gesturing very visible on the face and hands moving steadily to the right with his baton and left with their fingers, Simon Rattle (Liverpool, 1955) not only a great teacher but a great guide. Leads his army of musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Berliner Philharmoniker Orchester / BPO) in paths that they leave behind magic sounds and unexpected. S. Photo Rattle © Lucerne Festival. 
Sir Simon Rattle, director of the world's most prestigious orchestra, was presented this week at the Lucerne Summer Festival (Lucerne Festival im Sommer ) before a packed auditorium, and one of the annual festivals of classical music's most important and expected in Switzerland. Up, the JNF, which hosts concerts. Photos © Liana Cisneros.
The festival, which this year focuses on Eros, meets an irresistible lineup of names, including
orchestras (the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony), directors (Claudio Abbado , Pierre Boulez, Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen) and soloists (Karita Mattila, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anne-Sophie Mutter). Top , photo 1 / C. Abbado, 2 / P. Boulez concert a few days ago. © Lucerne Festival. Rattle toured the music of composers who stood out in late nineteenth and mid twentieth century: the German Richard Wagner (1813-1883) and Richard Strauss (1864-1949), and the Austrian Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951), Anton Webern (1883-1945) and Alban Berg (1885-1935 .)
The orchestration of the Prelude to Parsifal was sublime, every movement was perceived, from the subtle to the strength of the oboes and trumpets. Parsifal was the last opera written by Wagner, loved by some and criticized by others, including Adolf Hitler was the first and among the latter the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who rejected their sickly Christian and obscurantist ideals. The work is based on the medieval epic Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach during the period of King Arthur. It is a work that Wagner took over two decades to finish and was released only in 1882, a year before his death.
Strauss came immediately after The last four songs, which was attended by the Finnish soprano Karita Mattila (1960), who with his magnificent voice brought the drama to its fullest (left. Photo © Lucerne Festival. ) . Strauss wrote this piece after the Second World War during a difficult and some despair. He lived in exile in Switzerland after having passed through pressure and humiliation by Hitler and his government. Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic returned from the break with works by three composers Austrian, known as the Second Viennese School. The fantasy and invention came with Five Pieces for Orchestra Schönberg, which followed those of his disciples, the musical mourning Six Pieces for Orchestra, Webern the unknown forces struggle Three Pieces for Orchestra Berg, who finished with a thunderous percussion hammer blows. Leaving footprints
Simon Rattle international recognition came when conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Birmingham, which became one of the most respected in Britain. Directs the Berlin Philharmonic since 2002 and has managed to transform, something not easy when you take into account that bears the weight of their predecessors (Hans von Bulow, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado, among others). The BFO is now a foundation controlled by its members and not by politicians. Not long ago, launched the project in concert halls Digital (Digital Concert Hall), with live concerts over the Internet. "No is a profitable model. People are not used to paying for content, but is the future and the musicians wanted to get on it. We're thrilled to know that a concert you're seeing 15 people in Colombia, for example. Or one day public have of Wynton Marsalis. We are very happy ", said in an interview with the newspaper El Pais Spain. Up, Rattle picture with his third wife, the Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozená, next to a photo expressive. 
Rattle moves comfortably in all different genres, the proof is in the discs you've recorded, ranging from Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms and others, to the Children's Choir Toronto. His album Planets and Asteroids (The Planets & Asteroids), Gustav Holst, has been chosen as the magazine's Choice Orchestra Music from the BBC. In 2006, Rattle and FB, were the soundtrack of the film Perfume by German director Tom Tykwer, based on the novel by Patrick Suskind German.
His relationship with Latin America began several years ago when he discovered the National System of Youth and Children Orchestras of Venezuela, created by the maestro José Antonio Abreu for 35 years and has saved thousands of children and youth in poverty. Generously sponsored and supported internationally Gustavo Dudamel, left the quarries Abreu, now a young conductor most admired. Venezuela Rattle visit frequently and did a few weeks ago to sponsor the National Youth Symphony , comprising 377 children and adolescents, which are probably players who shine in the near future.
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