Browse: LSO Live (label)

Roman Simovic has a tendency to launch phrases with a penetrating sniff but secures characterful and energetic results, the very occasional imprecision let through in the interests of emotional... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2016 More…

This Harold in Italy takes a while to get going...Gergiev's pacing of the opening in its use of dynamics...Still, he brings out details in the score, and the third movement Serenade finds both... — BBC Music Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Not since Bernstein have we encountered a Mahler conductor of such idiosyncrasy and fire as Valery Gergiev. …right from the very first vividly characterised sounds of nature, every detail has... — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gergiev and the LSO capture the score's expressive beauty, and also the sense of its transience as chill winter encroaches — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Recorded in remarkably vivid sound at the Barbican in December 2019, this is an exceptionally fine performance. Gianandrea Noseda brings a tremendous sense of strength and purpose to the opening...The... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The LSO plays, as always, splendidly for Valery Gergiev. The general excellence and detail of their performance is remarkable. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

these are thoughtful, well-considered performances, excellently played and recorded...Gergiev's rather deliberate tempo in the first movement of the Rachmaninov seems to stress the 'symphonic',... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…