LSO Live

Singing without scores, the London Symphony Chorus are on unambiguous great form. Once Gergiev has the bit between his teeth, the tension hardly lets up… — Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 More…

Noseda scarcely puts a foot wrong and for some listeners that may be the problem...It might be argued that the orchestra has never played the Fifth ‘better’ and, as the performance has been... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the illicitness of unnatural bedfellows generated a certain frisson. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…

Gergiev has clearly taken a fresh look at the Third Symphony's score, driving to the first movement's first climax without the usual (unmarked) dramatic pause; the pay-off comes with an all... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…Rostropovich's way with the sorrowful passacaglia, and especially its final glimpse of the pale dawn of the finale, is intensely moving. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019 More…

despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... — The Times, 18th April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…