LPO
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Tippett: Piano Concerto & Symphony No. 2
RecommendedSteven Osborne (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
this completely symbiotic live account with Edward Gardner’s LPO has both repose and electricity to surpass all others...More, much more please – an indispensable disc! —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th December 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Finalists, Concerto
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts Zemlinsky
RecommendedHeike Wessels (mezzo soprano), Sergey Skorokhodov (tenor) & Albert Dohmen (baritone), Petra Lang (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski demonstrates a masterly control of dramatic pace, ratcheting up the tension slowly but surely so that the final denouement reaches a devastating climax. The LPO proves superbly responsive... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd June 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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New. Edward Gardner Conducts Strauss: An Alpine Symphony - Metamorphosen
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
[The Summit] is majestically judged by Gardner and the LPO, before descending into the storm's maelstrom and a rushed descent back into night. The sound quality, here as in the subsequent Metamorphosen,... —
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They offer a visceral, exhilarating insight into his brilliant musical imagination. Volatility is the watchword: from subtle delicacy to hedonistic excess; tender entwining to ironic parody... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Orchestral Choice
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Edward Gardner conducts Britten
RecommendedNicky Spence (tenor), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Gardner
Rarely since Britten’s own classic Decca recording have I heard a performance of the Sinfonia da Requiem bristling with such visceral energy and structural inevitably as this new account from... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th May 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Júlia Várady, Jane Eaglen, Susan Bullock (sopranos), Trudeliese Schmidt, Jadwiga Rappé (mezzo soprano), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Eike Wilm Schulte (baritone) & Hans Sotin (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, London Symphony Chorus & Eton College Boys’ Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Even in the hour-long second movement, Tennstedt sustains such a high level of concentration and intensity that the attention is riveted throughout, culminating in a ecstatic peroration that... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2011, Editor's Choice
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There’s no pretending that the LPO violins initially have the sheen of the Vienna Philharmonic…but as details accumulate in the thorny path through the forest at the first movement’s heart,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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Jurowski seems to be making the point that this is a symphony of sorrowful songs, revolutionary and otherwise, until the musically re-imagined Palace Square massacre midway through the second... —
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Record Review, 3rd October 2020, Record of the Week
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its character and its superb sound, both detailed and well-balanced, are as impressive and involving as ever...the music [is] not only well within the players' grasp but played with polish and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & Lalo: Symphonie espagnole
Augustin Hadelich (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, Omer Meir Wellber
Hadelich’s rich tone pays dividends in an arresting, heartfelt Tchaikovsky. The rather slighter Lalo is nevertheless given a seductive and graceful performance. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Concerto
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