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Scriabin: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedEkaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) & Alexander Timchenko (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
there’s a great sense of freedom in this music that Gergiev manages to create ... Gergiev’s volatility really works in this Scriabin. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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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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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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Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedChristine Brewer (Agathe), Sally Matthews (Ännchen), Lars Woldt (Kaspar), Simon O’Neill (Max), Stephan Loges (Ottokar/Zamiel), Martin Snell (Kuno), Gidon Saks (A Hermit), Marcus Farnsworth (Kilian), Lucy Hall (Bridesmaids)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
This is a sincere reading of the work, but sincerity should not be confused with a lack of sophistication. The orchestral textures are pristine, the tempos and colours bracing and plaintive,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th May 2013
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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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Odd as it may be to start with 15, I wouldn’t recommend facing both at a single setting: each needs mental and emotional space to digest. It ’s certainly true that the swansong is more truly... — More…
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra – Debussy: Jeux
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, François-Xavier Roth
As with his earlier recording [of Also sprach], Roth never loses sight of the work’s structure, tying everything together with the surest of touches, but this new account adds to that a new... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th March 2023
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
Barry Banks (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus & London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Colin Davis
The St Paul's acoustic is something to be reckoned with...and it is striking to observe how careful Davis is to allow for the famous echo...There's some lovely orchestral detail...The chorus... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 1-3 Nikolaj Znaider (violin & conductor)
London Symphony Orchestra
Znaider seems to have taken Mozart’s description of his own silky tone to heart, and his new recording of the first three concertos with the LSO…is notable for the purity of his sound. These... — More…
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