LPO
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Jurowski Conducts Stravinsky Vol. 3
Sam Furness (tenor), Angharad Lyddon, Matthew Rose (bass), Elizabeth Atherton, Maria Ostroukhova, Joel Williams, Theodore Platt, Joshua Bloom, Maxim Mikhaliov, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
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Messiaen: Des Canyons aux Étoiles
Tzimon Barto (piano), John Ryan (horn), Andrew Barclay (xylorimba) & Erika Öhman (glockenspiel)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach
Christoph Eschenbach animates the score with a true feel for the Messiaen language, embracing the epic as well as the meditative…it is a performance that serves as a reminder that Messiaen described... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Special offer. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
Karen Cargill (Marguerite), John Irvin (Faust), Christopher Purves (Méphistophélès), Jonathan Lemalu (Brander), London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Edward Gardner
this performance by the London Philharmonic under its principal conductor offers consistently high orchestral standards and focused participation from the assembled choirs, who show skill in... —
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Gardner is on top form in the Dvořák. The melodic lines soar and sing, the rhythms are taut and muscular, but able to relax when needed, while the dance music has a fine spring in the step especially... —
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Vladimir Jurowski conducts Britten
Sally Matthews (soprano), Pieter Schoeman (violin) & Alexander Zemtsov (viola)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
The Double Concerto… is far more than an interesting curiosity. Strongly shaped, impassioned and poetic, with warm, clear recorded sound, this is about as good a version as one could hope for. —
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Rachmaninoff: The Bells & Symphonic Dances
Dmytro Popov (tenor), Kristina Mkhitaryan, Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone), London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Edward Gardner
Who would have thought the London Philharmonic could have found as fine a Rachmaninov interpreter as Vladimir Jurowski to succeed him as principal conductor? Yet Edward Gardner has proved just... —
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Brett Dean: In spe contra spem, Viola & Cello Concertos and Orchestral Works
Lawrence Power (viola), Emma Bell (soprano), Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Alban Gerhardt (cello), Bartosz Glowacki (accordion)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Mazzola, Hannu Lintu, Edward Gardner, Karina Canellakis, Vladimir Jurowski
Brett Dean’s music is typically dramatic, expressive and texturally, timbrally and spatially innovative while fluently combining modernism and lyricism. The works on this impressive release,... —
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It's a tremendously attractive, sometimes serene, often joyous work, drawing on Indian melodic and rhythmic elements, European structures and developmental procedures, and textures from both... —
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano) & Toby Spence (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
one smudged turn apart, the orchestral playing is perfect, the crucial oboe, flute and clarinet solos the best I've heard. Nezet-Seguin's vision is suitably hyperaesthetic - he is already an... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Christine Brewer (soprano), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir & Tiffin Boys’ Choir, Kurt Masur & Neville Creed (chamber orchestra)
arguably the finest trio of soloists since the original performance under the composer...Christine Brewer, Gerald Finley, and Anthony Dean Griffey are all superb in their clean focus, pure and... —
