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Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt
…Tennstedt goes for the jugular, accentuating the theatricality of Mahler's musical language. — More…
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Building a Library, January 2023, Recommended Recording
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Ryan Wigglesworth
[Jurowski] keeps sonority and expression taut, yet in a way that gives the orchestra time to play. They respond superbly, alighting on the music's idiom - the 80-year-old Vaughan Williams's... — More…
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Building A Library, May 2022, Also Recommended
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Jurowski’s Alpine Symphony ideally paced and beautifully balanced…There are so many good recordings of it, but this is up there among the best. And I know no more bewitching or exciting performance... — More…
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this orchestra has long had an impressive way with Bruckner's music...this performance confirms the tradition, and more...[The LPO's] horn section, so important in Bruckner, is as impressive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2011, Editor's Choice
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London choral singing has been among the best in the world. Here it is transcendent. No tempo is too fast, no dynamics too challenging, no high notes too fearsome—the two choruses sail though... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 18th December 2021, Record of the Week
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedYvonne Kenny (soprano) & Jard Van Nes (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
there are fine things: the focused, weighty playing; the charm of the childlike moments, the mighty storm that blows through the gentle pastures of the second movement, and some suitably hard-hitting... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Christine Brewer (soprano), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir & Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Kurt Masur & Neville Creed (chamber orchestra)
arguably the finest trio of soloists since the original performance under the composer...Christine Brewer, Gerald Finley, and Anthony Dean Griffey are all superb in their clean focus, pure and... — More…
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts organ works by Poulenc & Saint-Saëns
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 26 March 2014.
James O’Donnell (organ)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
these live performances showcase different aspects of this remarkable instrument's capabilities in tandem with orchestra. The Poulenc is generally a hard-edged performance, James O'Donnell dispatching... — More…
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Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version)
Lisa Milne (soprano), Ruxandra Donose (mezzo soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Choral
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Jurowski and the London Philharmonic give a delectable account of Tchaikovsky’s usually less favoured Third Symphony…Jurowski’s conducting remains purposeful throughout…And the finale is never... — More…
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