More By Artist: London O'Connor
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BRAHMS
Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 26/Aug/2014 ] Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra bring to a close their celebrated Brahms' cycle with the release of Brahms third and fourth Symphonies. |
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 18/Nov/2015 ] Valery Gergiev conducts revelatory performances of Scriabin's Symphony No 3 'The Divine Poem' and Symphony No 4, 'The Poem of Ecstasy'. This marks the first in a new cycle of Scriabin symphonies, and one of the most significant of all Valery... |
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No 2 London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/May/2010 ] "Gergiev has the sensibility to put on the pressure and to foster flexibility as the natural contours of the music demand...[He] has a feel for the romantic urgency of the music as well as its lyrical impulse and the LSO responds as if its life... |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 3 in D minor London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Gergiev brings out all the moods and feelings in this symphony with enormous success, from the relentless strength and vigour in the first movement, to beauty and delicacy elsewhere...highly recommendable." (ClassicalSource.com) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 3 (with Balakirev - Russia) London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "Gergiev and the LSO capture the score's expressive beauty, and also the sense of its transience as chill winter encroaches" BBC Music |
MAHLER
Symphony No 5 London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "This is a magnificent performance in every respect. The orchestral playing is consistently of the highest quality, individually and collectively, the musicians clearly inspired by the insight and total conviction of their conductor. No one can... |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 6 London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] 'Orchestra and conductor sounded not only well prepared but also totally in harmony. Every detail, every phrase had an irrefutable sweep and logic. That's something to be prized ... the music oozed tension' Financial Times (UK) |
MAHLER
Symphony No 7 London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2008 ] BBC Music Magazine: Disc of the Month September 2008 - "Hand on heart, I can't think of another recording of this symphony that not only brings so many of its extraordinary features to life, but ultimately balances them so satisfyingly. Thoroughly... |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of the Thousand' Viktoria Yastrebova, Ailish Tynan, Ludmila Dudinova, Lilli Paasikivi / London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/May/2009 ] "two performances bringing Gergiev's Mahler cycle to a triumphant close. Gergiev caught the crucial moment of expectation to perfection. But in the end it was the shattering power of several hundred voices, an expanded orchestra and full cathedral... |
PERSICHETTI
Divertimento / Masquerade / Parable IX London Symphony Orchestra Wind and Percussion Ensemble / David Amos (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/May/2006 ] In the face of partisan antagonism, Persichetti advocated, through his music, the notion of a broad working vocabulary based on a fluent assimilation of all the materials and techniques which had appeared during the 20th century. |
KHACHATURIAN / SHOSTAKOVICH / PROKOFIEV / BORODIN / MUSSORGSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
Russia - Romance & Drama London Symphony Orchestra, Yuri Ahronovitch [ Alto / CD - released 20/Feb/2019 ] "Yuri Ahronovitch may have been too eccentric in large-scale symphonies, but what extraordinary character in this ideal Russian collection. Musorgsky's witchy revels and Prokofiev's strutting Three Oranges march are highlights." BBC Music Five Stars |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no.6 London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda [ LSO Live / CD - released 6/Feb/2026 ] 'I have put my whole soul into this symphony' - Tchaikovsky on Symphony no.6 Tchaikovsky's final symphony, known as the 'Pathétique', is a work of haunting beauty and emotional depth - a journey from darkness to fragile light. From its... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade for Strings (with Bartók - Divertimento) London Symphony String Ensemble, Roman Simovic [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] The LSO's magnificent string sound is world renowned and this recording marks the LSO Live debut of the LSO String Ensemble, led by LSO Leader Roman Simovic, who directs a performance of the much loved Tchaikovsky 'Serenade for Strings', together... |
BERIO
Berio-Sinfonia; Ekphrasis London Voices. GAteborgs Symfoniker. Peter EAtvAs [ DG 20/21 Series / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] "Peter Eotvos' new recording (of Sinfonia) scores over (earlier versions), mainly because the recording itself is even more successful in sorting out the complex textures. A must-have." (BBC) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Il Trittico (complete operas) Carlo Guelfi, Maria Guleghina, Neil Shicoff, Ricardo Cassinelli, Jose van Dam, Angela Gheorghiu / London Voices, London Symphony, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 4/Jun/2012 ] The dark, dangerous drama of Il tabarro… The heart-wrenching pathos of Suor Angelica… The merciless comedy (leavened with youthful romance) of Gianni Schicchi… Puccini's scores for his triptych of one-act operas are as compelling for their subtlety... |
BARBER / HINDEMITH / NIELSEN / JANACEK
Twentieth-century Music for Winds London Winds [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] A stunning combination of virtuoso players who also enjoy active solo careers, the ensemble London Winds is renowned for its technical brilliance, interpretative vision, and joie de vivre. |
W.A. MOZART
Wind Serenades (Incls Serenade No. 10 in B major, K361 'Gran Partita') London Winds [ ONYX / CD - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Michael Collins further entrenches his place among the first rank of clarinettists with this rather heavenly recording of Mozart Serenades. He leads the London Winds with great sensitivity and, when called for, virtuosic flair. A class act. A classy... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Complete Music for Winds London Winds / Michael Collins [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 22/Jan/2004 ] 'London Winds are second to none in terms of technical accomplishment, expressive commitment and warmth of timbre' (BBC Music Magazine) |
ERNEST BLOCH
Sacred Service (Avodath Hakodesh) Louis Berkman (baritone) / The Zemel Choir / members of the London Chorale and the London Concord Singers / London Symphony Orchestra / Geoffrey Simon [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] 'When this recording was originally issued on LP I compared it with all previous versions of the work… finding it to be superior with regard to both performance and sound… I remain enthusiastic about this Chandos release, especially in its CD... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Strauss (R.): Vier Letzte Lieder [Four Last Songs / 12 Lieder / Daphne: Closing Scene Lucia Popp (soprano) Wolfgang Sawallisch (piano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks [ Warner Classics Red Line / CD - released 25/Oct/2018 ] "...an almost effortless spontaneity of approach, makes this into a glorious version of a much-recorded work." (Gramophone on the Four Last Songs) |
