Simon Rattle discography

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This is the discography of Simon Rattle and other produced works by the English conductor.

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Discography

With Berliner Philharmoniker

AlbumSoloist (if any)LabelDiscsRelease year
Ades: Tevot EMI12010
Barber: Adagio for Strings 1 track from Various artists album 'Barber:Adagio'EMI22010
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 2, Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 Lang Lang Sony12013
Beethoven: Fidelio Angela Denoke; Jon Villars, Alan Held, Thomas Quasthoff,
Rainer Trost, Arnold Schoenberg Choir
EMI22003
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique;
La mort de Cléopâtre
Susan Graham (Sop.)EMI12009
Bizet: Carmen Magdalena Kožená, Jonas Kaufmann, Genia Kühmeier, Kostas SmorginasEMI22012
Brahms: Complete Symphonies (Nos. 1-4)EMI32009
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Krystian Zimerman (Pf.)DGG12009
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem Dorothea Röschmann (Sop.), Thomas Quasthoff (Bar.)EMI12007
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings; Les Illuminations; Nocturne Radek Baborák (Hr.), Ian Bostridge (Ten.)EMI12005
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4EMI12007
Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (4 Movement version)EMI12012
Debussy: La Mer; La boîte à joujoux ; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ; Three Preludes (Orch. Matthews)EMI12005
Dvořák: Tone Poems
(The Golden Spinning-Wheel; The Wood Dove;
The Noonday Witch; The Water Goblin)
EMI22005
Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88-92;
Sinfonia Concertante
Jonathan Kelly (Ob.), Stefan Schweigert (Fag.),
Toru Yasunaga (Vln.), Georg Faust (Vc.)
EMI22007
Holst: The Planets ;
Matthews: Pluto, the Renewer;
Saahiro: Asteroid 4179;
Pintscher: Towards Osiris;
Turnage: Ceres;
Dean: Komarov's Fall
EMI22006
Liszt: Faustian SymphonyEMI11994
Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto;
Symphony No 2
Krystian Zimerman (Pf.)DG12015
Mahler: Symphony No. 2Kate Royal, Magdalena Kožená, Rundfunkchor BerlinEMI22011
Mahler: Symphony No. 5EMI22002
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (1986 live performance)Im Takt Der Zeit:1987 cd #8. BPO Release12007
Mahler: Symphony No. 9EMI22008
Mahler: Symphony No. 10 (Cooke)EMI12000
Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'Au-delà EMI12004
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition;
Borodin: Symphony No. 2; Polovstian Dances
EMI12008
Nielsen: Flute & Clarinet Concertos Emmanuel Pahud (Fl.), Sabine Meyer (Cl.)EMI12007
Orff: Carmina Burana Sally Matthews (soprano), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor),
Christian Gerhaher (baritone)
EMI12005
Ravel: L'Enfant et les Sortilèges ;
Ma Mère l'Oye
Magdalena Kožená, Annick Massis, José Van Dam,
François Le Roux and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt
EMI12009
Schoenberg: Gurreleider Quasthoff, Sofie von Otter, Mattila, Mosar, Langridge EMI22002
Schoenberg:
Chamber Symphony no 1 (1935 orchestration)
Imaginary Scene For A Film
Brahms: Piano Quartet (orch. Schoenberg)
EMI12011
Schubert: Symphony No. 9EMI12006
Schumann: Complete SymphoniesBerliner Philharmoniker Recordings22014
Shostakovich: Symphonies No. 1 & 14Thomas Quastoff, Karita MatillaEMI22006
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1,
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1
Sarah Chang (Vln.)EMI12006
Sibelius: Symphonies 1 to 7 (live recordings)Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings62015
Staud, Johannes Maria: Apeironkairos music12007
Strauss, R.: Ein Heldenleben;
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
EMI12006
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms;
Symphony in C;
Symphony in Three Movements
EMI12008
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps;
Symphonies of wind instruments;
Apollon musagete
EMI12013
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Complete Ballet4 Different Editions

1. Highlights version (1 cd)
2. Standard version (Full Ballet On 2 cds)
3. Experience Edition with Hardcover Book & access to exclusive online content(2 cds)
4. Japanese version (Full Ballet 2 cds + 3rd disc DVD of highlights and interviews)

EMI22010
Tykwer: Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer (Original Soundtrack recording)EMI12006
Ravel/Dvořák/Mahler: Love & Longing

Mahler Five Ruckert Leider
Ravel Scherezade
Dvořák Ten Biblical Songs (orchestrated Vilém Zemánek)

Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)DG12012
Welcome Sir Simon!:
Promo cd comprising
Mahler Symphony no 10 (scherzo)
Bernstein Candide Overture

Dvořák Slavonic Dances op.46 nos 1 & 3
Brahms Hungarian Dance no 3
Mussorgsky Gates of Kiev
Satie Gymnopedie no 3
Ravel Mother Goose: Le Jardin Feerique
Elgar Pomp & Circumstance March no 4

EMI22002

With Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

With Philharmonia Orchestra

With Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

With other orchestras

Other appearances

Box sets

The Simon Rattle Edition

ComposerWorksSoloists and ensemblesDiscs
American MusicAdams Harmonielehrer; Chairman Dances; Tromba Lontana
Short Ride In A Fast Machine
excerpts from the music of Ives, Carter, Gershwin, Bernstein
Bernstein Wonderful Town; Prelude, fugue & Riffs
Ellington The Duke Ellington Album
Gershwin Porgy & Bess;Rhapsody in Blue
Songbook; Piano Concerto in F

Creamer & LaytonAfter You've Gone
Kahn, Erdman, Meyers & Schoebel Nobody's Sweetheart
Harris & Young Sweet Sue

Peter Donahoe (Piano) Thomas Hampson, Michael Collins (clarinet)
Willard White, Kim Criswell, Audra McDonald

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
London Sinfonietta, LPO, London Voices
Glyndebourne Chorus, BCMG, Harvey & The Wallbangers

7
Béla BartókMiraculous Mandarin; Concerto For Orchestra
Piano Concertos 1-3;Violin Concerto 2; Rhapsodies 1 & 2
Concerto For 2 Pianos, Percussion & Orchestra
Sonata For 2 Pianos & Percussion
Bluebeard's Castle: Lake Of Tears; Music For Strings, Percussion & Celeste (excerpt)
Kyung Wha Chung (violin) Peter Donohoe (Piano)
Katia & Marielle Labeque (Pianos)
Sylvio Gualdo, Jean Pierre Drouet (Percussion)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
4
Ludwig van BeethovenSymphonies 1-9; Symphony no 5 (2000 recording)
Fidelio;Piano Concertos 1 & 2
Piano Concerto no 1 (Glenn Gould Cadenza)
Vienna Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker, Arnold Schoenberg Choir
Lars Vogt (Piano)Thomas Hampson, Thomas Quastoff (Basses)
Barbara Bonney (sop)
9
British MusicArnold Guitar Concerto

Ades Asyla
Elgar Enigma Variations; Grania & Diarmid
Falstaff; Violin Concerto; Dream Of Gerontius
Grainger In A Nutshell;Lincs Posy;Warriors
Country Gardens;Train Music
Pagodes (Debussy arr Grainger)
Les Valley Des Cloches (Ravel arr Grainger)
Holst The Planets
Kmussen Flourish With Fireworks
Mathews Pluto The Reniewer
Maw Odyssey
Turnage Three Screaming Popes; Drowned Out
Kai;Momentum;Ceres
Vaughan Williams Lark Ascending;Songs Of Travel
On Wenlock Edge
Walton Symph no 1; Belshazzar's Feast; Cello Con.

Nigel Kennedy, Lyn Harrell, Julian Bream,

Thomas Allen, Thomas Hampson, John Shirley Quirke, Janet Baker, John Mitchison, Robert Tear City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin,
Cleveland Orch. Chorus Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

11
Benjamin BrittenAmerican Overture

Ballad Of Heroes op.14 1-3
Canadian Overture
Diversions for Piano & Orchestra (Left hand)1-11
Occasional Overture
Praise We Great Men
Quatre Chansons Franaises
Scottish Ballad op. 26
Sinfonia De Requiem
Suite On English Folk Tunes; A Time There Was...
The Building of The House;Overture
War Requiem
Young Apollo
Russian Funeral
Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
Nocturne
Les Illuminations
Serenade;For Tenor, Horn & Strings

Ian Bostridge/Robert Tear (tenors)
Thomas Allen (Baritone)Willard White (bass)

Jill Gomez/ Elizabeth Soderstrom (sopranos)
Peter Donahoe/Philip Fowke (pianos)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker

5
Claude Debussy



Maurice Ravel
Musique pour Le Roi Lear (orch. Roger-Ducasse); Jeux;
Images; Iberia; Estampe No. 1;
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; La Mer;
Le Boite A Joujoux (orch. Caplet); Three Preludes (orch. Matthews)
Fanfare from L'Eventail de Jeanne; Shéhérazade; Miroirs No. 4 & 5;
Ma Mère l'Oye; La Valse; Daphnis et Chloé; Boléro
Piano Concerto, "For the Left Hand" (Gavrilov)
Piano Concerto, "For the Left Hand" (Ousset); Piano Concerto in G
Le Jardin féerique
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andrei Gavrilov, London Symphony Orchestra
Cécile Ousset, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
5
Gustav MahlerSymphonies No. 1-4, 6-8; Das Lied von der Erde
Das Klagend Lied; Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Symphonies No. 5 & 10 (Cooke)
Symphony No. 9
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wiener Philharmoniker
14
Russian MusicMussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ravel)

Borodin Symphony no 2/Polovtsian Dances
Rachmaninov Symphony no 2/Vocalise/Piano ConcertonNo 2
Rhapsody On A Theme By Paganini/Symphonic Dances
Shostakovich Symphony nos 1, 4, 10, 14
Prokofiev Symphony No 5/Scythian Suite/Piano Concerto no 1
Gubaidulina Zeitesstalten (excerpt)

Karita Mattila, Thomas Quastoff, Andre Gavrilov (pf)Cecile Oussett (pf)

LSO/CBSO/Berlin PO/Phil O/Los Angeles PO

8
Second Viennese SchoolSchoenberg Gurreleider/Chamber Symphony no 1/Ewartung/Variations for Orchestra
5 Orch. Pieces op.16/A Survivor From Warsaw (Brahms arr Schoenberg)Piano Quartet no 1

Webern 5 Orchestral Pieces op.10 (nos 3-5)
6 Orchestral Pieces op.6
Berg Lulu Suite/Violin Concerto (conclusion)

Gidon Kremer (vln)Arleen Auger, Thomas Quastoff, Karita Mattila

CBSO, BCMG, Berlin PO, Rundfunkchor Berlin

5
Jean SibeliusSymphonies No. 1-7; Kuoleme; The Oceanides
Violin Concerto in D minor
Night Ride and Sunrise
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Nigel Kennedy, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
5
Igor StravinskyThe Firebird; Scherzo a la Russe (for jazz band)
Scherzo a la Russe (for orchestra)4 Studies
Apollo;Rite Of Spring
Petrushka; Symphony of Wind Instruments
Symphony in 3 Movements;Pulcinella
Suites 1 & 2;Ebony Concerto
Ragtime;Agon (excerpts)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
London Sinfonietta; Berlin Philharmonika
Northern Sinfonia
Peter Donahoe (piano)
4
Karol SzymanowskiSymphonies 3 & 4; Violin Concertos 1 & 2
King Roger; Litany To The Virgin Mary
Orchestral Songs
Stabat Mater; Harnasie
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Thomas Zehetmair, Thomas Hampson, Phillip Langridge
Elzbieta Smytka
4

DVDs

(Recorded live at Teatro Real, Madrid, 1 May 2011 DVD & Blu-ray)

Live from Kabelwork Berlin Berlin Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Released 2010.

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