The latest addition to the illustrious list of conductors in our Mahler interview series is Sir Simon Rattle.

Sir Simon talks to UE about his own very personal relationship with Mahler’s music and the challenges for a conductor when performing his music.

We've just heard that the BBC Philharmonic and Hallé’s combined performance of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony at The Bridgewater Hall has won a South Bank Sky Arts Award. Congratulations!

As part of the Mahler in Manchester Series, the orchestras commissioned a number of new works, including Friedrich Cerha’s Like a Tragicomedy and Luke Bedford’s At Three and Two.