Editing Simon Rattle (section)

==Musical styles and recordings==
{{see also|Simon Rattle discography}}
Rattle has conducted a wide variety of music, including some with [[Historically informed performance|period instruments]] (either actual surviving historical [[musical instrument]]s or modernly made ones informed by commonly used designs and material of the time), but he is best known for his interpretations of late 19th- and early 20th-century composers such as [[Gustav Mahler]], with a recording of Mahler's Second Symphony winning several awards on its release.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Brandle|first1=Lars|title=Classical Brits Win|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bRQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76|page=76|magazine=Billboard|date=23 June 2001|access-date=23 March 2017|archive-date=19 August 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819101243/https://books.google.com/books?id=bRQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> He has also championed much [[20th-century classical music|contemporary music]], an example of this being the 1996 TV series ''Leaving Home'', where he presents a 7-part survey of musical styles and conductors with excerpts recorded by the CBSO.

Other recordings in Berlin have included [[Antonín Dvořák|Dvořák]] tone poems, Mahler's [[Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 9]] and [[Claude Debussy]]'s ''[[La mer (Debussy)|La Mer]]''. The ''[[Gramophone Magazine]]'' praised the latter as a "magnificent disc" and drew favourable comparisons with interpretations of the piece by Rattle's immediate predecessors, [[Claudio Abbado]] and [[Herbert von Karajan]]. He has also worked with the [[Toronto Children's Chorus]]. Rattle and the BPO also recorded [[Gustav Holst]]'s ''[[The Planets]]'' (EMI), which was the ''BBC Music Magazine'' Orchestra Choice. In addition, Rattle's acclaimed<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=9724 |title=Gershwin: Porgy & Bess/Rattle – Review by Robert Levine |publisher=Classicstoday.com |access-date=24 December 2012 |archive-date=29 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111129101450/http://classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=9724 |url-status=live }}</ref> complete 1989 recording of [[George Gershwin]]'s opera ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' was used as the soundtrack for the equally acclaimed<ref>{{cite web |url=http://homevideo.about.com/od/dvdreviewslong/a/PorgyBessDVDMoa.htm |title=DVD Pick: "Porgy & Bess" |author=Ivana Redwine |publisher=about.com |date=3 July 2001 |access-date=24 December 2012 |archive-date=17 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117101850/http://homevideo.about.com/od/dvdreviewslong/a/PorgyBessDVDMoa.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/may02/Porgy_DVD.htm |title=GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess Rattle DVD[IL&#93;: Classical Reviews- May2002 MusicWeb(UK) |publisher=Musicweb-international.com |access-date=24 December 2012 |archive-date=19 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240819101248/http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/may02/Porgy_DVD.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> 1993 television production of the work. It was the first made-for-television production of ''Porgy and Bess'' ever presented. Rattle's 2007 recording of [[Johannes Brahms]]'s ''[[A German Requiem (Brahms)|Ein deutsches Requiem]]'' received praise from ''BBC Music Magazine'', as "Disc of the Month" for April 2007, "as probably the best new version of the ''Requiem'' I've heard in quite some years". Rattle and the BPO have also released recordings of [[Anton Bruckner]]'s [[Symphony No. 4 (Bruckner)|Fourth Symphony]] (''Romantic''), and [[Joseph Haydn]]'s Symphonies Nos. [[Symphony No. 88 (Haydn)|88]], [[Symphony No. 89 (Haydn)|89]], [[Symphony No. 90 (Haydn)|90]], [[Symphony No. 91 (Haydn)|91]], [[Symphony No. 92 (Haydn)|92]] and [[Sinfonia Concertante (Haydn)|Sinfonia Concertante]].

Rattle's recording of Brahms's ''Ein deutsches Requiem'' with the BPO received the Choral Performance [[Grammy Award]] in 2008. He has won two other Grammy Awards, one Choral Performance Award for a recording of [[Igor Stravinsky|Stravinsky]]'s ''[[Symphony of Psalms]]'' in 2007, and another for Best Orchestral Performance for a recording of Mahler's unfinished [[Symphony No. 10 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 10]] in 2000.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060126235958/http://grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx Grammy Awards winners] Web.archive.org</ref><ref name="GRAMMY.com 2020">{{cite web | title=Simon Rattle | website=GRAMMY.com | date=23 November 2020 | url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/simon-rattle/12217 | access-date=27 May 2021 | archive-date=17 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417151725/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/simon-rattle/12217 | url-status=live }}</ref>

The French Government awarded him the honour of [[Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur]] in 2010. Rattle was elected to the inaugural [[Gramophone (magazine)|Gramophone]] Hall of Fame in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sir Simon Rattle (conductor)|url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/HallofFame/ArtistPage/Klemperer|publisher=Gramophone|access-date=10 April 2012|archive-date=13 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120413055451/http://www.gramophone.co.uk/HallofFame/ArtistPage/Klemperer|url-status=live}}</ref>