Simon Rattle has had a storybook career as one of the world’s great conductors. “But lately it’s not all been rosy. In Berlin, there’s one prominent dissenting voice in the shape of prominent music critic Klaus Geitel himself, who declares roundly that Rattle is the weakest musical director of the Berlin Philharmonic he’s ever seen. The recent recordings of the nine Beethoven symphonies left many reviewers puzzled by its odd mix of “period” and mainstream styles, and the Fidelio recording had some curious vocal casting. In the UK, the dissenters are more numerous…”