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Simon Rattle at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, 3-6 May 2012
By Richard P. Townsend Sir Simon Rattle, chief conductor and artistic director of the Berlin Philharmonic, guest conducted Los Angele’s orchestra last weekend at Disney Hall in a memorable and brilliantly curated program of high Romantic Germanic music: Wagner, Bruckner and Mahler, spiked with a modern piece that demonstrated Ligeti’s connection to the earlier composers. […]