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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…

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... — Fanfare, March/April 2020 More…

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... — CD Review More…

Michele Pertusi is exemplary, with a lovely legato quality…Erika Grimaldi is at her best when projecting the drama of the text…the LSO Chorus are superb throughout, as are the LSO themselves.... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017 More…

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…

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…

The Chorus’s merits are well known in the concert hall and on other notable LSO Live CDs … but even by their standards this recording of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil is something of a jewel. — Choir & Organ, November/December 2016 More…

The playing is almost always full-on, and I sometimes found myself wanting greater variety of tone, especially in the more delicate passages…The sound is close and warm – despite appearing on... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars 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 sitting... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…