LSO Live
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Special offer. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Andrew Kennedy (Prologue, Peter Quint), Sally Matthews (Governess), Michael Clayton-Jolly (Miles), Lucy Hall (Flora), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Grose) & Katherine Broderick (Miss Jessel)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Farnes
Britten's opera makes its usual harrowing impact...Broderick's darker-toned Miss Jessel contrasts well with [Matthews]...while Catherine Wyn-Rogers's Mrs Grose is faultlessly secure and vivid.... —
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Recorded in remarkably vivid sound at the Barbican in December 2019, this is an exceptionally fine performance. Gianandrea Noseda brings a tremendous sense of strength and purpose to the opening...The... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, Orchestral Choice
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The Chorus’s merits are well known in the concert hall and on other notable LSO Live CDs … but even by their standards this recording of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil is something of a jewel. —
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1-15
Vitalij Kowaljow (bass), Elena Stikhina (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Choir, Gianandrea Noseda
Over nine years, the London Symphony Orchestra’s principal guest conductor progressed through Shostakovich’s 15 symphonies in concert performances acclaimed for thoughtfulness, verve and instrumental... —
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The Times, Best Classical Box Sets Christmas 2025
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
Glenn Winslade (Peter Grimes), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Balstrode), Jill Grove (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), James Rutherford (Swallow), Christopher Gillett (Bob Boles), Nathan Gunn (Ned Keene)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7
RecommendedMonica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
The mature Davis has a way with the music’s architecture like few other conductors. The pace of the expansive Second and Fifth Symphonies is masterful. Combined with the innate warmth and pretty... —
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Building a Library, June 2012, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2013, First Choice
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Special offer. Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedChristine Brewer (Agathe), Sally Matthews (Ännchen), Lars Woldt (Kaspar), Simon O’Neill (Max), Stephan Loges (Ottokar/Zamiel), Martin Snell (Kuno), Gidon Saks (A Hermit), Marcus Farnsworth (Kilian), Lucy Hall (Bridesmaids)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
This is a sincere reading of the work, but sincerity should not be confused with a lack of sophistication. The orchestral textures are pristine, the tempos and colours bracing and plaintive,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th May 2013
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Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 52 'Lobgesang'
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonyté (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The Monteverdi Singers produce, as ever, a clean, well-focused tone and there is much pleasure to be had in Lucy Crowe’s radiant soprano and Michael Spyres’s lyrical tenor, making the most of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 & Rimsky-Korsakov: Kitezh Suite
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda
Noseda’s pacing leads us to the heavenly kingdom of Fevroniya and her beloved Vsevolod, killed in battle with the marauding Tatars, with a natural ease that creates the innocent sense of wonder... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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