Browse: LSO Live (label)

…Rostropovich's way with the sorrowful passacaglia, and especially its final glimpse of the pale dawn of the finale, is intensely moving. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dave Brubeck is unique among jazz's elder statesmen. While most have remained locked in eternal competition with their past, struggling to approximate heroic statements made in their prime, Brubeck... — Stuart Nicolson, The Telegraph More…

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. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2024, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

despite the film’s scrappy construction music and man emerge loud and clear. A “reluctant king” is Sir David Attenborough’s description. His baton, Mitsuko Uchida, the pianist, crisply says,... — The Times, 18th April 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

…a deeply felt, thoughtful and, where needed, highly dramatic interpretation of an indisputable masterpiece. — Gramophone Magazine, October 2006 More…