LSO Live
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBen Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz...
So what's so special about the performance? Try Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, outdoing his fellow countryman Jon Vickers on Sir Colin's first recording of Les Troyens. The other principals are... —
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
this performance from last year with the London Symphony Orchestra on stupendous form seems to mark a pitch of understanding and communication which it wouldn't be possible to surpass. There... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Op. 65
London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich
The most overwhelming performance; could musical expression possibly go further? —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2005, Disc of the month
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Pappano is effortlessly adept at keeping the subtle structural coherence and unfolding story in perfect equilibrium...And he moulds the LSO into a single instrument, ravishingly ref ined, alert... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Editor's Choice
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I must say straightaway that the first disc’s worth of music contains the finest account of the Fourth Symphony I have ever heard, thanks to the extreme simplicity of the approach...while the... —
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Record Review, 18th September 2022, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Mature wisdom and beautiful playing from the LSO —
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Building a Library, June 2012, First Choice
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Special offer. Beethoven: Christ On the Mount of Olives
Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Pavol Breslik (tenor), David Soar (bass-baritone)
London Symphony Chorus
...the full chorus acquits itself well as commentators on one of the angel’s arias and in the rousing finale; and the male chorus of well-drilled soldiers takes the listener right into the Garden... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2020
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Maxwell Davies & Panufnik: Symphonies No. 10
RecommendedMarkus Butter (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Antonio Pappano
Highly charged fervour animates the symphony’s discourse on creativity. —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
It’s the symphony that might or might not have recalibrated Shostakovich’s future and it’s still one of the trickiest to pull off in performance. Noseda meets it halfway – which makes for pluses... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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[Davis] matches Herbert Blomstedt when it comes to grandeur and sense of the long evolving line, and yet the music also seems to fluid and changeable, and alive on so many levels. Full marks... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th January 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2011, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
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