Young Master Sasha strikes again, in the Berlin Morgenpost. This is a good, yet small interview that focuses on this young musician that has to carry a name that can be his cross, or his blessing: the Rattle name.
Sasha Rattle, only pic avalaible 
He wants to talk about himself, his own music, his own aspirations, its own goals. It is then quite pathetic, when he says things like: “The music determines your life or you have not understood them.” And his father? No, he would not talk about him.
Sasha makes it very clear: his music talent comes not only from his dad, the famous conductor that was a pretty normal father, who happens to work a lot.
His father had never exerted pressure on him: this is such a sentence that Sacha Rattle repeated. But he didn’t have a real choice. For the Rattles are a music dynasty. His grandfather, his father’s father was, until his death, a pianist in Simon Rattle’s home town of Liverpool. His aunt, a native New Yorker, plays Baroque violin, but also as a regular guest at international festivals. His cousin played jazz piano in a London trio. His cousin taught him the first notes on the clarinet, when Sacha Rattle was nine years old and lived with his parents in Birmingham. His mother, an American soprano, was only really known as the father separated from her. Sacha Rattle was twelve years old. A year before the divorce, his father was knighted by the British Queen Elizabeth II.
His father traveled a lot, but there was always christmas, the time for family concert and bonding time. The divorce came, and as we all know, San Francisco became home for the young Rattles and their mum… but Sasha has never been a normal person:
He went to High School, also to the many pubs in town, sought access to his peers. But just a normal teenager, he never was. Too serious, too ambitious. Wild parties, naked bodies on the beach are still an abomination for him .
And from those years comes the thing about his name. He became very cautious with it, didn’t like to use it a lot. Whatever he was going to achieve, he was going to do it on his own, not because daddy is such a super genius conductor:
¿What's it like, to have a famous father? ¿And to share a career with him?
Sacha Rattle has always had one goal in mind. And you can only get far, he has learned from his father from very early, if you practice a lot and if you are disciplined. His father has been known for many years all over the world, even in America. Sacha Rattle got used rapidly, to give his last name only he musts, he does so even today . (…) And yet, says Sacha Rattle and stares straight ahead as if he had moved on long ago, San Francisco meant for him ease, the feeling of being reached. He did not feel that way in Berlin. He said Berlin was still foreign to him, he missed the ease, the carelessness of the Americans. But he came here, yes, because of or thanks to his father. The fact that he presented himself to the clarinetist Karl-Heinz Steffens, one of the best clarinetists in the world, made evident his will to learn. It was one of the few moments in which Sacha Rattle could be grateful for his last name.
And we come to present times. Sasha is in Berlin, learning and playing his clarinete like posessed. And he gets the chance to be closer to his father, to build an intimacy on something more than just music… yes and… well…
He does not say he wanted to be near his father, but finally got to spend time with him, something that he couldn’t do for years. He talks instead about how he was when he came from America, after 15 years of silence. For a year Sacha with him in the big house, with Simon Rattle’s third wife, the mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena. He was happy to see his father so happy with his new family. Simon Rattle has two sons with his new wife, Jonas and Milos, just one and five years old. If it would be strange for Sacha Rattle, to be around to see his now 55-year-old father with a baby in his arms or a small child in the garden, he would say it probably never. What if he was jealous ever on the family fortune? certainly not.
Time flies, life goes by.
Now, it’s all about his music. Sasha wants to cut a good record deal for himself and his ensamble, Berlin Counterpoint. He wants to tour and play wonderful music.. he wants to reach and move people. Of course, his father is a great example of that and Sasha says that his dad covers the soul of every composition. He doesn’t mind the comparisons a lot, but he wants to leave his own footprint in the music world and he is working hard to do it.
In the end, there is a sad thing about his relationship with his illustrious father:
In the summer, Sacha Rattle gives his two final concerts at the Academy. His father will not sit well with the public.
