LPO
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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... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Choral
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Beethoven - Symphony No. 9
Lucia Popp (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor) & René Pape (bass)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
Without doubt the heart of this performance resides in the Elysian stretches of a deeply poetic and extremely leisurely Adagio, most memorably the rich lower strings near the start of the first... —
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measured, full-bodied, freighted with meaning…[this recording is] pleasingly clean and immediate —
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The Post-War Revival
Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum
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These are refreshing and reassuring readings, DDD-engineered by Mike Clements to faithfully reflect the immediate and lucid Royal Festival Hall acoustic. —
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Schubert: Unfinished Symphony & Janacek: Glagolitic Mass
Zdena Kloubova (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Pavol Breslik (tenor), Gustáv Belácek (bass) & David Goode (organ)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Czech Philharmonic Choir of Brno, Kurt Masur
Masur was indeed right at home in the Schubert, and gave a reading of unforced grandeur, sturdy without being ponderous. —
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Michael Morpurgo: The Mozart Question
Recorded on 18 March 2012 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
Michael Morpurgo (author/narrator), Alison Reid (narrator) & Jack Liebeck (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Collon (conductor) & Simon Reade (director)
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Tennstedt takes a briskish tempo in the opening movement...With warm-bodied string and a fresh-voiced wind choir, the LPO was also the ideal medium for Tennstedt's reading. Their playing is... —
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Rachmaninov & Mozart: Piano Concertos
Live concert recordings with the late Aldo Ciccolini, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The pairing with the young Nézet-Seguin is inspired, the conductor finding perfect tension at the opening of K466. This is one of the great Mozart performances, up there with Haskil, Brendel... —
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London Philharmonic Orchestra 75th Anniversary
Box Set Volume 1 - 1932-1957
Dora Labette (soprano), Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano), Jean Pougnet (violin), Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Moura Lympany (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham, Eduard van Beinum, Sir Adrian Boult, Anatole Fistoulari
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4 CDs
$45.75
