Arnold Schönberg’s “Gurre-Lieder” are rarely performed because of their enormous effort.The “Gurre-Lieder” cannot be pigeonholed. Over 300 participants, including the largest orchestral ensemble ever written for. The voluminous sound of this setting of a wildly romantic fairy tale by Jens Peter Jacobsen and the last high point of late Romanticism is enormous. For Sir Simon Rattle, the Gurre-Lieder are an old childhood love: “Sexy, elegant, sensual.”