Rattle To Leave LSO?

[Darkbloom]

https://www.welt.de/kultur/article224035120/Sir-Simon-Rattle-vor-Wechsel-nach-Muenchen.html

According to this he's had enough and is heading to Munich and the BRSO. After all the fanfare of his arrival!

[Petrushka]

https://www.welt.de/kultur/article22...-Muenchen.html

According to this he's had enough and is heading to Munich and the BRSO. After all the fanfare of his arrival!

In a word: BREXIT.

The German press has been full of this speculation for some time and my reading of the piece linked to does not say anything more definite than others have been doing. I'm not sure that Rattle has made the decision and even with both Brexit and Covid it can't be an easy one to make.

[Darkbloom]

In a word: BREXIT.

Plus Covid and the lack of progress with the new concert hall. They want a new one in Munich so I guess he wants to be involved with that. The LSO must be demoralised already but this will be a real kick in the teeth.

[Bryn]

https://www.br-so.com/sir-simon-rattle-p35870/

[Serial_Apologist]

Plus Covid and the lack of progress with the new concert hall. They want a new one in Munich so I guess he wants to be involved with that. The LSO must be demoralised already but this will be a real kick in the teeth.

The Adamek work to be performed at that Munich concert on March 6, furthermore, is an LSO commission, so that's two kicks in the teeth.

[Petrushka]

The Adamek work to be performed at that Munich concert on March 6, furthermore, is an LSO commission, so that's two kicks in the teeth.

It's a joint commission with Musica Viva which is the contemporary music series given by the BRSO.

[Serial_Apologist]

It's a joint commission with Musica Viva which is the contemporary music series given by the BRSO.

OK thanks for clarifying, Pet.

[gurnemanz]

Thanks for link. They do point to a possible announcement on the 12th. Munich seem keen to clinch the deal. The article mentions that Montreal and Concertgebouw are still searching for successors and that Magdalena Kozená would be a welcome part of the package. I hadn't realised she had stayed resident in Berlin with the three youngest children.

So sad not just to lose Rattle but for it what it might betoken for the post-Brexit cultural scene in the UK.

[muzzer]

If true, this is awful news. What an indictment of the British cultural establishment that it can’t keep someone whose value you’d think it would recognise above all else. Wtf is wrong with this country.

[LHC]

Thanks for link. They do point to a possible announcement on the 12th. Munich seem keen to clinch the deal. The article mentions that Montreal and Concertgebouw are still searching for successors and that Magdalena Kozená would be a welcome part of the package. I hadn't realised she had stayed resident in Berlin with the three youngest children.

So sad not just to lose Rattle but for it what it might betoken for the post-Brexit cultural scene in the UK.

When Rattle joined the LSO, I am sure he said he would still live in Berlin as their children were still at School.

All may not be lost yet. For several years Maris Jansons led both the Concertgebouw and the BRSO at the same time, so if he was so disposed, Rattle could take on the BRSO and still carry on as MD at the LSO.

However, if he does leave it will be a sad indictment of the arts in this Country.

[Pulcinella]

Here's The Times' take on it (Richard Morrison and Jack Malvern):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/germany-beckons-as-rattle-is-ready-to-quit-krn6r3ngb?shareToken=a9885c9373e12720ca0893080822dd9c

[Ein Heldenleben]

Here's The Times' take on it (Richard Morrison and Jack Malvern):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/g...0893080822dd9c

It’s a good article. I always thought the City based concert hall was a non-starter. It’s such an expensive place to build. It is such a shame that they didn’t get it right when they built the Barbican but I was told they did it on the cheap - the stage has a hollow over resonant cavity and there’s no choir and organ. I am also not sure Rattle going to Munich is quite the cultural disaster the pundits suggest . Much more problematic is the long standing over - provision of orchestral music in London and the dearth in the South West and East of England .

[LHC]

The LSO have announced today that Rattle has extended his contract with them until 2023, when he will take over the BRSO in Munich. He will then be appointed Conductor Emeritus for life for the LSO, as was previously done for André Previn.

https://lso.co.uk/more/news/1625-sir-simon-rattle-announces-an-extension-of-his-contract-as-music-director-until-2023.html

[teamsaint]

So nothing much has changed. Brexit was going to happen, the concert hall was always going to be a tough one.
More opportunity for our brightest and best youngsters ?

[Richard Barrett]

More opportunity for our brightest and best youngsters?

Indeed so. (Including everyone under the heading of "our"!)