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Detail is strong in The Firebird, though muted horn and offstage trumpet can’t easily be heard (brass recession can be a problem). The Rite of Spring is assured from the start, woodwind timbres... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2022, Editor's Choice
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Dvořák: Stabat Mater, Op. 58
Janice Watson (soprano), Dagmar Pecková (mezzo soprano), Peter Auty (tenor) & Peter Rose (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Neeme Järvi
Peter Rose's commanding resonance is full of warmth. Janice Watson floats with a beautiful ease...From an orchestral point of view this performance is a triumph, with flawless playing. The LPO... — More…
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Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen & Symphony No. 1
Thomas Hampson (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
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Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version)
Lisa Milne (soprano), Ruxandra Donose (mezzo soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Choral
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Marin Alsop conducts MacMillan, Adès and Higdon
RecommendedColin Currie (percussion)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…a moving, compelling performance, and coupled with strong accounts of the phenomenal Adès Chamber Symphony… and Jennifer Higdon's essentially old-fashioned but well-wrought Percussion Concerto,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Honegger: Pastorale d’été, Symphony No. 4 & Une Cantate de Noël
RecommendedChristopher Maltman (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir & New London Children’s Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
Pleasing performances of some pleasing and unfamiliar music. Recommended to beachcombers (and anyone else who's curious). — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th November 2007
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Jurowski seems to be making the point that this is a symphony of sorrowful songs, revolutionary and otherwise, until the musically re-imagined Palace Square massacre midway through the second... — More…
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Record Review, 3rd October 2020, Record of the Week
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Messiaen: Des Canyons aux Étoiles
Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Christoph Eschenbach animates the score with a true feel for the Messiaen language, embracing the epic as well as the meditative…it is a performance that serves as a reminder that Messiaen described... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Dvořák: Requiem, Op. 89
Lisa Milne (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano), Peter Auty (tenor) & Peter Rose (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Neeme Järvi
All the virtues of Järvi's approach come together… in the Agnus Dei: beautifully paced and crafted, the performance captures superbly the radiance of Dvorák's vision of the hereafter. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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