Rattle and the Berlin Phil at the proms

[sawyl]

I haven't really said much about this year's proms — one way and another, I haven't caught many of them — but the recent Berlin Phil concerts under Simon Rattle were worth catching. Their St Matthew Passion was beautiful and deeply, although ultimately I think I prefer the intimacy of small-scale period performance, but their performance of Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances really was every bit as exceptional and brilliant as the reviewers claim...