Browse: LSO Live (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label LSO Live.
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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... — More…
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie & La mort de Cléopâtre
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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... — More…
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7
RecommendedMonica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
The mature Davis has a way with the music’s architecture like few other conductors. The pace of the expansive Second and Fifth Symphonies is masterful. Combined with the innate warmth and pretty... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2012, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2013, First Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedLaura Claycomb (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
pacing is almost always emotionally precise, and sonorities rounded and well-judged — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Gergiev paces and balances [the opening's] unfolding finely, from halting start via macabre climax to nostalgic fade-out. The ensuing Landler movement duly comes as a shock as Mahler doubtless... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th September 2011
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Eberle plays these new contributions with dazzling virtuosity, and her live performance of the Concerto itself with Simon Rattle and the LSO has just the right amount of warmth and expressive... — More…
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonyté (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The Monteverdi Singers produce, as ever, a clean, well-focused tone and there is much pleasure to be had in Lucy Crowe’s radiant soprano and Michael Spyres’s lyrical tenor, making the most of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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An extremely impressive achievement. For once, the razorsharp clarity of texture and dazzling precision of ensemble that Noseda secures from the orchestra in blistering accounts of opening movement,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Reich: Clapping Music & other works
RecommendedRecorded live, in DSD 128fs, at LSO St Luke’s, London 30th October 2015
Neil Percy
LSO Percussion Ensemble
The LSO Percussion Ensemble’s riveting recording [of Music for Pieces of Wood] has the bonus of being live. Moreover, they take it very fast indeed…and accomplish it brilliantly. I’ve found Sextet... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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