大象传媒

Martin Handley introduces the final recording in the series of outstanding concerts taken from the last ten years of the Radio 3 archive.

Simon Rattle's week-long 2015 London residency with the Berlin Philharmonic was the season's hottest ticket. The concerts, split between the Barbican and the Southbank Centre, ended with the work which inspired an 11-year-old Rattle to become a conductor. The epic drama of Mahler's 'Resurrection' Symphony is now something of a Rattle calling card and this performance, with the orchestra Rattle had led since 2002 and which had given the symphony's premiere in 1895, was variously summed up by critics as 'shattering... utterly compelling', 'genuinely awesome' and 'dizzyingly cathartic'.

Providing an upbeat to Mahler's transcendent symphony was Helmut Lachenmann's late 80s 'Tableau', a short, intense work which uses a huge conventional orchestra in unconventional ways. It was a perfect foil to the Mahler, a typical Rattle juxtaposition designed to make an audience sit up and think.

Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall in February 2015 and presented on the night by Petroc Trelawny.

Helmut Lachenmann: Tableau
Mahler: Symphony No 2 ('Resurrection')

Kate Royal (soprano)
Magdalena Ko啪en谩 (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Chorus
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Berlin Philharmonic
Simon Rattle (conductor)