Browse: LPO (label)

The chief cause of ecstasy is the inspired playing of the LPO, whose intensity is electrifying: the opening storm is enough to show what we can expect, and despite the broad tempos – this is... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Both works are graced with strongly characterised playing under Jurowski’s precise direction. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[The Isle of the Dead] has long been a Jurowski speciality and, unless you insist on the sensationally doom-laden, heavyfooted approach of late-career Evgeny Svetlanov (BBC, 1/08 et al), there... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2019 More…

Recorded live under Penderecki’s baton, this disc is a terrific tribute to the great composer. With moments of shimmering subtleties and immense, piercing walls of sound, this is an utterly electric... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Both interpretations have impressive strengths, with Berglund's familiar and admirable no-nonsense directness everywhere in evidence, and with much fine and vividly focused orchestral playing... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

It's an extraordinary interpretation: for one thing, at least in the first two movements, it must be the slowest account I've ever heard...Yet, to be fair, the effect is neither glacial nor too... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The heroes are the London Philharmonic Choir members: trained by Richard Cooke, they are gloriously full-toned in loud passages and capable of the merest whisper without losing pitch. The orchestra,... — Classic FM Magazine, November 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…