Sir Simon is the music director of the London Symphony ... received the Classic FM Gramophone best choral disc award for Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem. UNICEF appointed the BPO and Rattle as Goodwill ...

And so it did, even if it was the most solemn of Brahms’s four. Rattle can always be relied upon to show us the familiar in a new light and here, perhaps taking his cue from Boulez, he did it ...