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Rattle with his wife Magdalena Kozena, receiving the French Legion of Honour in 2010
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So lockdown has had a silver lining: allowing more time to plan fresh approaches?

“Yes,” Rattle replies. “My conducting colleagues are coming up with all sorts of brilliant

suggestions. Sibelius’s Cassazione, for instance, is a strange, wonderful piece I’d never heard.

So thank you, Susanna Malkki, for including that in her LSO concert [November 5]. And social-
distancing rules have nudged us into presenting familiar repertoire in fresher ways.

Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances, for instance [which Rattle conducts on September 23], actually work

better with smaller string sections.”