LPO
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Jukka-Pekka Saraste conducts Sibelius & Lutosławski
Recorded live at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall, London, on 20 February 2008 (Lutosławski) and 15 October 2008 (Sibelius)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jukka-Pekka Saraste
Both Sibelius works come across very strongly here...Saraste sees these works whole. Always the right thing seems to happen at the right time. The sense of growth from a simple but potent musical... —
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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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Older conductors have a knack of searching out the metaphysical in Bruckner...Tempi are wonderfully sustained – “old” does not always mean “slow” – and climaxes are reached patiently and lyrically,... —
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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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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor ‘Wagner Symphony'
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Stanisław Skrowaczewski
[Skrowaczewski] is a details man, happy to leave flexed muscle, blood-on-the-walls Bruckner to others. Points of climax are cannily earthed in what went before; and how deftly he manages to... —
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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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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... —
