Browse: LSO Live (label)

The first and third movements climax in a dash to the finishing-line that has one pinned to one's seat. The finale has an immediacy and machismo you may or may not find at odds with its elevated... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2009 More…

…this performance benefits from marvellous sound and shows Davis secure in his tempo choices and bringing that combination of solemnity, grandeur and drama to a work he particularly cares for. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there's a sense that something special is afoot here. Driven and grittily intense though his direction often is, it isn't ruthless.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

This film records François-Xavier Roth's first concert as principal guest conductor of the LSO, after some years working together on mostly new music, and it has proved a fine augur of both original,... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2019 More…

For anyone who wants first-rate stereo sound and a broadly traditional reading, it is hard to imagine more profoundly satisfying accounts than these. The playing of the LSO is nowadays quite... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019 More…