Browse: LSO Live (label)

There are no gimmicks in Gergiev's pacing, just clarity and sense in some of the music's most treacherous corners; you do get some nicely pushed/pulled speeds and sculpted details, but they never... — Classic FM Magazine, April 2011, 3 out of 5 stars More…

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 2009 More…

Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there's a sense that something special is afoot here. Driven and grittily intense though his direction often is, it isn't ruthless.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Sir Colin Davis and the LSO bring out the mainstream qualities of James MacMillan's orchestral music. With such assured playing, you're more conscious than ever of the ways in which both these... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 More…

This film records François-Xavier Roth's first concert as principal guest conductor of the LSO, after some years working together on mostly new music, and it has proved a fine augur of both original,... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2019 More…

For anyone who wants first-rate stereo sound and a broadly traditional reading, it is hard to imagine more profoundly satisfying accounts than these. The playing of the LSO is nowadays quite... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…