LSO Live

Michele Pertusi is exemplary, with a lovely legato quality…Erika Grimaldi is at her best when projecting the drama of the text…the LSO Chorus are superb throughout, as are the LSO themselves.... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2017More…

Roman Simovic, the London Symphony Orchestra’s leader, plays both concertos with great panache where needed, also finding just the right degree of warmth and rhythmic flexibility in the variation... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

It’s a goodly noise, rumbustious in the dance movements, sleek in the intensely wrought sonata form of the first movement, caressing in the slow music and almost vandalous in the yobbish rondo-finale…forty-eight... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2017More…

Sir Colin Davis's live account is founded on purposive modern-instrument playing and the conductor's own irrepressible dynamism; in this early eighties, he continues to show a sharp-eared appreciation... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

An 80th-birthday gift for Sir Colin Davis, James MacMillan's 90-minute setting of the St JohnPassion divides into two parts and is cast in 10 movements, the last of which comprises a deeply... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

The dark, veiled string at the opening (Brahms with a slight Russian Orthodox accent?) are very impressive. So too is the sense of the first movement rising and falling steadily like a great... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 starsMore…

Noseda is lithe but never fast, as he sometimes used to be, for the sake of it, and the slow movement based on the poignant lament for the fallen of 1905 is deeply moving, as it should be. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2025, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 3 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…

The three main works on offer plus the Prokofiev encore come across with clarity and balance … the performances themselves all show considerable boldness of style … the combination of largeness... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 starsMore…

It’s a lyric Anna who takes to the road for seven years prey to seven deadly sins, though there’s an exciting lurch into that broken tone that was Lenya’s vocal calling card when we reach Envy.... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2025, 3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…