LSO Live
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The most overwhelming performance; could musical expression possibly go further? — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Disc of the month
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Schubert: Death and the Maiden & Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C Minor
LSO String Ensemble, Roman Simovic
Roman Simovic has a tendency to launch phrases with a penetrating sniff but secures characterful and energetic results, the very occasional imprecision let through in the interests of emotional... — More…
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[Davis] matches Herbert Blomstedt when it comes to grandeur and sense of the long evolving line, and yet the music also seems to fluid and changeable, and alive on so many levels. Full marks... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
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Adès: Asyla, Tevot & Polaris
Recommendedwith Samuel Dale Johnson (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Adès
Tevot's scintillating surge is brilliantly realised, as Ades's ark rides the glistening orchestral waves towards us. There's sheer pleasure to be had in its sonic grandeur, a sense of music... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonyté (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The Monteverdi Singers produce, as ever, a clean, well-focused tone and there is much pleasure to be had in Lucy Crowe’s radiant soprano and Michael Spyres’s lyrical tenor, making the most of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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This Is Rattle
Grime, Ades. Birtwistle, Knussen & Elgar
Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
The dazzling panache of the LSO’s playing has you wondering all over again at the mesmerising range of options that Adès’s ear and technical command can summon…And Elgar’s Enigma Variations... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
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Putting it in the best light, this is a performance that attempts to make the Bruckner Sixth more alive and urgent, less monumental and settled. That’s a direction I approve of, so a recommendation... — More…
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Not only does it feature superior orchestral playing, but Rattle’s wonderfully fluid approach, his magisterial control of rubato and keen sensitivity to all the different colours in this opulently... — More…
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Triple Concerto
Maria João Pires (piano), Gordan Nikolitch (violin), Tim Hugh (cello), Lars Vogt (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Pires plays with the lightness, clarity and impeccable phrasing that have made her career...Haitink keeps the orchestra firmly in classical territory, helped by reduced instrumentation. Pires... — More…
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Valery Gergiev is one of the most charismatic maestros on the circuit and his Mahler series in London has aroused passionately divergent responses. If you prize the textural elucidation that... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd March 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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