LSO Live

Gergiev has plenty of insights...The playing for the London Symphony Orchestra is, as so often, exceptionally refined, yet very much alive and full of colour...Under Gergiev, there is an exceptional... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

an admirable and infectious performance. Sir Colin Davis and his fine players are wonderfully idiomatic and offer a performance of exceptional clarity of detail. — Penguin Guide, 2010 edition, 3 out of 4 stars More…

Not only do Davis and his excellent band distil a remarkable level of concentration in this nobly defiant, dark hued essay, they also locate a heartache and intimacy that touch to the very marrow. — Gramophone Magazine, Christmas 2014 More…

Matsuev has his feet...firmly planted on terra firma, the edgier writing displaying more of a kinship with Bartok until the gorgeous return to lushness in the second movement suggests an almost... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 More…

Gergiev and the LSO capture the score's expressive beauty, and also the sense of its transience as chill winter encroaches — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

There's much to savour in Gardiner's urgently driven account of Ruy Blas, and the vibrato-less string passage that opens Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage is simply spellbinding, reminding us of... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2015 More…

Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there's a sense that something special is afoot here. Driven and grittily intense though his direction often is, it isn't ruthless.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Recorded in remarkably vivid sound at the Barbican in December 2019, this is an exceptionally fine performance. Gianandrea Noseda brings a tremendous sense of strength and purpose to the opening...The... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…