LSO Live
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This is an exceptional performance which, despite the unyielding acoustics of the Barbican, held me spellbound from the mysterious violin tremolo of the first bar to the glorious affirmation... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra – Debussy: Jeux
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth
As with his earlier recording [of Also sprach], Roth never loses sight of the work’s structure, tying everything together with the surest of touches, but this new account adds to that a new... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th March 2023
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Special offer. NAZARENO! Bernstein, Stravinsky, Golijov
Katia & Marielle Labèque, Chris Richards, Gonzalo Grau, Raphaël Séguinier, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Bernstein’s rollicking Prelude, Fugue and Riffs is a Simon Rattle speciality and this is an utterly compulsive swing through this masterpiece of written-out jazz. Clarinettist Chris Richards... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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Special offer. Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24
Giuseppe Sabbatini (Faust), Enkelejda Shkosa (Marguerite), Michele Pertusi (Méphistophélès), David Wilson-Johnson (Brander)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
The greatest Berlioz conductor of his generation in a triumphant benchmark live recording … outshines previous sets at whatever price —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2001, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
RecommendedSabina Cvilak (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Choir of Eltham College, Gianandrea Noseda
[Noseda] delivers it afresh as a scintillating achievement...Sabina Cvilak's soprano has the focus, though not always the required gravitas, while tenor Ian Bostridge brings a piercing sincerity... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th May 2012
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Special offer. Ravel, Dutilleux & Delage
Recorded live at the Barbican Hall, 13th January 2016
Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Julia Bullock (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
In seeing as well as hearing this concert, what comes over is Rattle's love for the music and the orchestra's wholehearted response: it all looks so terribly easy, though of course it's anything... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, DVD of the Month
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A stunningly authoritative set of the symphonies from the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Colin Davis, including Anthony Payne's realisation of Symphony No. 3. This recording of Symphony No.... —
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Building a Library, October 2005, Budget Choice
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It’s valuable that Gianandrea Noseda’s performances have come under the aegis of a complete cycle like Gergiev’s; the former is altogether more probing and, in this work, atmospheric. —
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Special offer. Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4
RecommendedGordan Nikolitch (violin), Tim Hugh (cello)
London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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Building a Library, January 2005, First Choice
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Special offer. Berlioz: Harold en Italie & La mort de Cléopâtre
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
This Harold in Italy takes a while to get going...Gergiev's pacing of the opening in its use of dynamics...Still, he brings out details in the score, and the third movement Serenade finds both... —
