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ELGAR
Symphony No 1 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 5/Apr/2002 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine (April 2002) |
BRAHMS
Symphony No 3 / Serenade No 2 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 8/Dec/2007 ] 'a really beautiful performance of the second serenade ... A delight - this seems to me a new benchmark. It goes without saying that the playing is excellent: the LSO can probably play Brahms symphonies in its collective sleep.' (BBC Music) |
DVORAK
Symphony No 8 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 23/Apr/2003 ] 'Unmissable ... Superb in all respects. Sound quality doesn't come any better than this whatever the price. Don't hesitate.' Classic CD |
DVORAK
Symphony No 9 From the new World London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 8/Dec/2007 ] 'Davis offers a story and a sense of conviction that place his performance in a wholly different league.' performance ***** sound ***** BBC Music Magazine |
WALTON
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast / Symphony No. 1 (recorded live at the Barbican 2008) Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] "The LSO Chorus give Walton's grateful choral writing all they have, and the orchestra revel in his brilliant and unconventional orchestration: E flat clarinet, alto saxophone, exotic percussion and extra brass." Sunday Times, 6th March 2011 **** |
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis-conductor
Bruckner-Symphony No 6 [ LSO Live / CD - released 1/Mar/2003 ] Sir Colin Davis follows his moving performance of Bruckner's ninth symphony with a monumental reading of the Symphony No 6 |
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis - conductor
Bruckner - Symphony No 9 [ LSO Live / CD - released 28/Feb/2003 ] Recorded live at the Barbican Centre on 22 and 24 February 2002 |
DVORAK
Symphony No 6 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / SACD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] Hybrid SACD Compatible with all CD players. Includes high denstity stereo and surround tracks that can be read by SACD players. |
ELGAR
Symphonies Nos 1 - 3 London Symphony Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis conductor [ LSO Live / 3 CD - released 5/Oct/2005 ] 'a radical version that sweeps away preconceived notionsabout the work.The headiness of Davis's approach is matched by the lushness of the LSO's playing and a sumptuous recording' The Guardian (UK),3 May 2002 (on Symphony No 2) |
SMETANA
Ma vlast (My Country) (Rec May 2005) London Symphony Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis conductor [ LSO Live SACD / SACD - released 15/Oct/2005 ] 'Colin Davis's performance of Smetana's Ma Vlast with the London Symphony Orchestra was an irresistible pageant of Czech patriotic fervour, a depiction of ancient battles and pastoral idylls, as well as a revelation of the work's symphonic... |
SMETANA
Ma vlast (My Country) (Rec May 2005) London Symphony Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis conductor [ LSO Live / CD - released 15/Oct/2005 ] "Colin Davis' performance of Smetana's Ma Vlást was an irresistible pageant of Czech patriotic fervour, a depiction of ancient battles and pastoral idylls, as well as a revelation of the work's symphonic integrity" The Guardian, 12 May 2005 |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos 1 & 4 'Italian' London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ LSO Live SACD + BLU-RAY AUDIO / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Sep/2016 ] "Gardiner's Mendelssohn is as genial as it gets." (Sunday Times) |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (Beecham) (1928, 1938) London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Great Conductors / CD - released 13/Jan/2002 ] In the early months of 1938 Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra set about making the records for the third and final volume to be issued by Columbia Records under the auspices of The Delius Society. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Lucy Crowe (soprano) [ LSO / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2019 ] LSO Live presents Sir John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning Mendelssohn series together in its entirety for the first time. Captured over three seasons during critically acclaimed concerts in the Barbican Hall, this set offers listeners the definitive... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Semele (complete musical drama) Louise Alder, Hugo Hymas, Lucile Richardot, Carlo Vistoli, etc / The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ SDG / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "A new recording is always welcome, especially when it comes from someone who knows his dramatical business as John Eliot Gardiner does." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2020 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Semele (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Louise Alder, Hugo Hymas, Lucile Richardot / Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ EuroArts Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 29/Jan/2021 ] In Spring 2019, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, led by John Eliot Gardiner, presented a critically-acclaimed European tour of Handel's opera 'Semele', including Alexandra Palace Theatre in London. |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem) Barry Banks (tenor) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus & London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 11/Mar/2013 ] "..the combined LSO and LPO choirs - singing beautifully and bringing out the music's profound sadness - is wonderfully enhanced. Colin Davis fits the work to the conditions with a master hand. Memorable." (Sunday Times) |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7 / Kullervo, Op. 7 Monica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone) / London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2009 ] "Combined with the innate warmth and pretty much faultless playing of the LSO, it makes for some of the most readily satisfying performances available." BBC Music |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Double Piano Concertos Lucas Jussen (piano), Arthur Jussen (piano) / Academy of St Martin in the fields, Sir Neville Marriner [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 16/Mar/2017 ] ".The Jussen boys have found perhaps the perfect collaborator in Sir Neville Marriner, who has conducted more Mozart than most; the Academy acquit themselves well." Editor's Choice Gramophone January 2016 |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123 (recorded in Oct 2012) Lucy Crowe, Jennifer Johnston, James Gilchrist, Matthew Rose / Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 20/Feb/2014 ] "Such is the visceral intensity of the music-making, a certain girding of the loins may be required before a second hearing, but isn't that precisely how it should be with a work of this power and magnitude?" Editor's Choice Gramophone, February 2014 |
