This is Rattle

This film captures Rattles very first performance as Music Director a programme in which British composers took centrestage The worldpremiere of Helen Grimes Fanfares which became the first movement of the work Woven Space opened the concert before violinist Christian Tetzlaff took to the stage to perform the concerto written for him in 2010 by Harrison Birtwistle Two more works close to Rattles heart followed Thomas Adès Asyla and the pocketsized Symphony No 3 by the late Oliver Knussen Finally Rattles stunning interpretation of the Enigma Variations brought the concert to a close and then the audience to its feet filling the Barbican Hall with rapturous applause