Browse: LSO Live (label)

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…

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…

Matsuev has his feet...firmly planted on terra firma, the edgier writing displaying more of a kinship with Bartok until the gorgeous return to lushness in the second movement suggests an almost... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 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…

From just about every point of view this is an improvement on Colin Davis's recent Dresden Staatskapelle A Child of Our Time… The soloists are more roundly convincing… and yet they still aren't... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Bernstein’s rollicking Prelude, Fugue and Riffs is a Simon Rattle speciality and this is an utterly compulsive swing through this masterpiece of written-out jazz. Clarinettist Chris Richards... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 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…

Among the slowest of accounts [of the Prélude], it briefly seems as if the flute's intoxicating gestures have left the orchestra in a torpor - though Gergiev's reluctance to break the spell is... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…