Browse: LSO Live (label)

Matsuev has his feet...firmly planted on terra firma, the edgier writing displaying more of a kinship with Bartok until the gorgeous return to lushness in the second movement suggests an almost... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 More…

an admirable and infectious performance. Sir Colin Davis and his fine players are wonderfully idiomatic and offer a performance of exceptional clarity of detail. — Penguin Guide, 2010 edition, 3 out of 4 stars More…

Gergiev has plenty of insights...The playing for the London Symphony Orchestra is, as so often, exceptionally refined, yet very much alive and full of colour...Under Gergiev, there is an exceptional... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the illicitness of unnatural bedfellows generated a certain frisson. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…

Noseda scarcely puts a foot wrong and for some listeners that may be the problem...It might be argued that the orchestra has never played the Fifth ‘better’ and, as the performance has been sitting... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2020 More…

The playing is almost always full-on, and I sometimes found myself wanting greater variety of tone, especially in the more delicate passages…The sound is close and warm – despite appearing on... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 4 out of 5 stars/5 out of 5 stars More…

The Chorus’s merits are well known in the concert hall and on other notable LSO Live CDs … but even by their standards this recording of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil is something of a jewel. — Choir & Organ, November/December 2016 More…

…Rostropovich's way with the sorrowful passacaglia, and especially its final glimpse of the pale dawn of the finale, is intensely moving. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2005 More…

The dark, veiled string at the opening (Brahms with a slight Russian Orthodox accent?) are very impressive. So too is the sense of the first movement rising and falling steadily like a great... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Dave Brubeck is unique among jazz's elder statesmen. While most have remained locked in eternal competition with their past, struggling to approximate heroic statements made in their prime, Brubeck... — Stuart Nicolson, The Telegraph More…