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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedYvonne Kenny (soprano) & Jard Van Nes (mezzo soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Philharmonic Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
there are fine things: the focused, weighty playing; the charm of the childlike moments, the mighty storm that blows through the gentle pastures of the second movement, and some suitably hard-hitting... —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Marin Alsop conducts MacMillan, Adès and Higdon
RecommendedColin Currie (percussion)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…a moving, compelling performance, and coupled with strong accounts of the phenomenal Adès Chamber Symphony… and Jennifer Higdon's essentially old-fashioned but well-wrought Percussion Concerto,... —
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Jurowski applies his hallmark fastidiousness in close collaboration with LPO players, giving Stravinsky’s Tchaikovsky ballet an even more elegiac, intimate atmosphere than usual. —
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Record Review, 29th April 2023, Record of the Week
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Julian Anderson: Fantasias, The Crazed Moon & The Discovery of Heaven
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Ryan Wigglesworth
[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Concerto for Organ, String and Timpani & Stabat Mater
Alexandre Tharaud (piano), James O’Donnell (organ), Kate Royal (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
A thoroughly enjoyable, reliable set of well-curated recordings. The wind section is particularly commendable throughout, glistening over the top of the orchestra and choir. —
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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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…the sense of occasion brings an extra charge to the Allegretto's climactic battle between Shostakovich's personal signature and the Mahlerian horn cry of liberations, and to the conflicts of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008, Editor's Choice
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3
Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
a hint of Rachmaninov's beloved Philadelphia string sound surfaces in a few portamentos, but there's no gloss. The beautiful, sombre line continues in a chain of superb solos for the central... —
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Honegger: Pastorale d’été, Symphony No. 4 & Une Cantate de Noël
RecommendedChristopher Maltman (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir & New London Children’s Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
Pleasing performances of some pleasing and unfamiliar music. Recommended to beachcombers (and anyone else who's curious). —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Tchaikovsky - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London on 22 October 2008 (Symphony No.1) and 26 November 2008 (Symphony No.6)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
…a young man's view of Tchaikovsky's first and last symphonies: infectious, bracing, and idealistic by turns, the results are both lively and heartfelt. This Pathétique… finale… receives a... —
