LSO Live
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Special offer. Haydn: The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3
(sung in German)
Miah Persson (soprano), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Sir Colin Davis's live account is founded on purposive modern-instrument playing and the conductor's own irrepressible dynamism; in this early eighties, he continues to show a sharp-eared appreciation... —
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Special offer. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Sally Matthews (soprano) & Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
The dark, veiled string at the opening (Brahms with a slight Russian Orthodox accent?) are very impressive. So too is the sense of the first movement rising and falling steadily like a great... —
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, 'The Year 1905'
London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Noseda is lithe but never fast, as he sometimes used to be, for the sake of it, and the slow movement based on the poignant lament for the fallen of 1905 is deeply moving, as it should be. —
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Firebird
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
The three main works on offer plus the Prokofiev encore come across with clarity and balance … the performances themselves all show considerable boldness of style … the combination of largeness... —
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Special offer. MacMillan: St John Passion
Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
An 80th-birthday gift for Sir Colin Davis, James MacMillan's 90-minute setting of the St JohnPassion divides into two parts and is cast in 10 movements, the last of which comprises a deeply... —
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Special offer. Turnage: Speranza & From the Wreckage
Håkan Hardenberger (flugelhorn, trumpet, piccolo trumpet)
London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
there is much to be said for hearing Hardenberger himself on commanding form. —
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There are some more unusual choices and I think that’s what makes this disc really fascinating. (Francois Xavier-Roth) is someone who is trying to shake things up and I think a major force is... —
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Special offer. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Andrew Staples, Alessandro Fisher (tenors), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Florian Boesch (bass-baritone), London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
It’s a lyric Anna who takes to the road for seven years prey to seven deadly sins, though there’s an exciting lurch into that broken tone that was Lenya’s vocal calling card when we reach Envy.... —
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Susan Gritton (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass)
Tenebrae Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Sir Colin Davis's way with Messiah, as recorded live at the Barbican last December, is old-fashioned by present-day standards. His soloists are all good. The Tenebrae Choir, with its thirty-odd... —
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an admirable and infectious performance. Sir Colin Davis and his fine players are wonderfully idiomatic and offer a performance of exceptional clarity of detail. —
