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Haydn: The Creation
(sung in German)
Lucia Popp (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Benjamin Luxon (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Elizabeth Watts (soprano) & Stéphane Degout (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
It's an extraordinary interpretation: for one thing, at least in the first two movements, it must be the slowest account I've ever heard...Yet, to be fair, the effect is neither glacial nor... —
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Orff: Carmina Burana
Sarah Tynan (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Rodion Pogossov (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir & Trinity Boys Choir, Hans Graf
Rhythmic impetus is paramount (helped by a generous percussion section, with incisive block chords for the chorus, and dramatic contrasts of tempo and dynamics... Kennedy maintains a searing... —
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Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead & Symphony No. 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
[The Isle of the Dead] has long been a Jurowski speciality and, unless you insist on the sensationally doom-laden, heavyfooted approach of late-career Evgeny Svetlanov (BBC, 1/08 et al), there... —
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so wholeheartedly is Jurowski immersed in its [the Overture’s] spirit. —
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Bernard Haitink conducts Strauss: Don Juan & Ein Heldenleben
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
The Don Juan...gives any account in the catalogue a run for its money in terms of sheer elan, and bristles with energy, The LPO's playing is vibrant and full of the sense of a live performance...the... —
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Elgar: The Legacy, Vol. 4 (1954-1955)
Ralph Downes, Alfredo Campoli (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
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The Founding Years
Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, Sir Thomas Beecham
The Leeds Festival performance of Sibelius's Tempest music - its 1934 UK premiere - is a real find, never previously issued. The later studio performances of Mozart's Haffner Symphony and Chabrier's... —
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The piece encapsulates Shankar’s lifelong devotion to bringing together the music of east and west…That the integration of styles and instruments feels so natural is testament to Shankar’s pioneering... —
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The Dutch conductor Jaap van Zweden, one-time leader of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, has an instrumentalist's inside view of the music, allowing you to marvel at the composer's contrapuntal... —
