Liverpool-born maestro, now 63, Sir Simon Rattle conducts at the Berliner Waldbuehne his final concert at the helm of the Berlin Philharmonic after 16 years in Berlin, Germany, June 24, 2018.

Perhaps you’ll take it as an admission of naiveté if I begin this review with a confession: Until this week, I’ve never heard the Berlin Philharmonic live. And yet. I couldn’t possibly begin an ...

BOSTON - Simon Rattle's pants are too long. About one inch too long to be exact. You could tell by the extra fold near the bottom of the Berlin Philharmonic conductor's pants Friday night at Boston's ...

This image is from the official website of the Berlin Philharmonic. Rounding out the Berlin Philharmonic’s concert programs, their performance of Mahler’s seventh symphony was absolutely awe-inspiring ...

It’s a career-defining opportunity. With only three days’ notice, Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot has been asked to fill in as guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic, a contender ...

Standouts included the soprano Lise Davidsen and the Berlin Philharmonic, a new opera by Missy Mazzoli and bits of old ones by Schubert. By Zachary Woolfe and Joshua Barone In three concerts at ...

BERLIN — The conductor Simon Rattle stepped onto his podium here last month and gave the downbeat. But the orchestra in front of him was not his mighty Berlin Philharmonic — not exactly. One of the ...

Update from the Berlin Philharmonic below (The last sentence, presumably, means: Yelling, but no fist-fights) and at this link: Voting for Chief Conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker Brings No ...