Browse: LPO (label)

You don’t have to be ravingly patriotic to enjoy this, but it helps. When the Jubilee flotilla travels down the Thames on June 3, the London Philharmonic will be on board. This CD gives a foretaste... — The Times, 12th May 2012 More…

These are two marvellous orchestral display-pieces… Despite a host of sterling British competition from Boult, Barbirolli, Handley, Lloyd-Jones et al, Osmo Vänskä seems to have totally identified... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

A thoroughly enjoyable, reliable set of well-curated recordings. The wind section is particularly commendable throughout, glistening over the top of the orchestra and choir. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Masur] generally takes the work at a flowing pace, giving its opening a Beethoven-like nobility and vigour…If the finale feels rather discursive in this performance…Masur and the LPO nevertheless... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

strongly cast, with a magisterial account of the title role from Dietrich Fischer Dieskau. Heather Harper is in radiant form as the Duchess of Parma, and Richard Lewis acquits himself well in... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden, one-time leader of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, has an instrumentalist's inside view of the music, allowing you to marvel at the composer's contrapuntal mastery... — The Telegraph, 21st June 2008 More…

In Hidden Love Song the soprano saxophone's lyricism has that slightly acrid urban feel that typifies so much of Turnage's best work… Full marks to Sarah Conolly and Gerald Finley for the conviction... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

These are refreshing and reassuring readings, DDD-engineered by Mike Clements to faithfully reflect the immediate and lucid Royal Festival Hall acoustic. — classicalsource.com, July 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…