LSO Live

Britten's opera makes its usual harrowing impact...Broderick's darker-toned Miss Jessel contrasts well with [Matthews]...while Catherine Wyn-Rogers's Mrs Grose is faultlessly secure and vivid.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

The first and third movements climax in a dash to the finishing-line that has one pinned to one's seat. The finale has an immediacy and machismo you may or may not find at odds with its elevated... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2009More…

…Sir Colin conducts the Requiem with a judicious mix of fire and meditative calm; tempi never drag nor are they, in the reflective passages, metronome-quick. The work of the LSO Chorus is first-rate,... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2009More…

If you like your Walton unleashed at full and scalding voltage, look no further. The [LSO's] trademark virtuosity and panache are so great, and the players' unravelling of Walton's demanding... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

This is the second instalment of [Davis's] Nielsen Symphony series with the LSO, recorded with admirable clarity and carrying no extra-musical sounds apart from an occasional gasp, groan or... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

one of the finest performances of Sibelius's Seventh ever to have gone down on disc — Classic FM MagazineMore…

He comes into his own in the passionate, rhapsodic style of the Third Sonata, dedicated to Georges Enescu, and the assumption of Fritz Kreisler's vibrato-laden personality in the Fourth, where... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, 3 out of 5 starsMore…