LSO Live - up to 35% off
Until 7th October, we are offering up to 35% off LSO Live titles on CD, SACD, vinyl, Blu-Ray, DVD, & downloads.
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Valery Gergiev is one of the most charismatic maestros on the circuit and his Mahler series in London has aroused passionately divergent responses. If you prize the textural elucidation that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd March 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphonies 1-9
Elena Mosuc (soprano - Symphony No. 2) & Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo - Symphony No. 2), Anna Larsson (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Laura Claycomb (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Viktoria Yastrebova, Ailish Tynan, Ludmila Dudinova (sopranos - Symphony No. 8), Lilli Paasikivi, Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-sopranos...
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedLaura Claycomb (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
pacing is almost always emotionally precise, and sonorities rounded and well-judged —
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Gergiev paces and balances [the opening's] unfolding finely, from halting start via macabre climax to nostalgic fade-out. The ensuing Landler movement duly comes as a shock as Mahler doubtless... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th September 2011
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Jansons coaxes some extraordinary playing from the London Symphony Orchestra, with deep, rich strings, characterful woodwind and peerless brass. This performance also happens to have the most... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2003, Editor's Choice
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Not since Bernstein have we encountered a Mahler conductor of such idiosyncrasy and fire as Valery Gergiev. …right from the very first vividly characterised sounds of nature, every detail has... —
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Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there's a sense that something special is afoot here. Driven and grittily intense though his direction often is, it isn't ruthless.... —
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Anna Larsson (contralto)
Tiffin Boys Choir, London Symphony Chorus, & London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
The first and third movements climax in a dash to the finishing-line that has one pinned to one's seat. The finale has an immediacy and machismo you may or may not find at odds with its elevated... —
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There are no gimmicks in Gergiev's pacing, just clarity and sense in some of the music's most treacherous corners; you do get some nicely pushed/pulled speeds and sculpted details, but they... —
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Viktoria Yastrebova, Ailish Tynan, Ludmila Dudinova (sopranos), Lilli Paasikivi, Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-sopranos), Alexey Markov (baritone), Sergey Semishkur (tenor) & Evgeny Nikitin (bass)
Choir of Eltham College, Choral Arts Society of Washington, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony...
As a concert venue St Paul's Cathedral's problems remain acute: chief culprit is the building's notorious nine-second reverberation period which gives climaxes earth-shattering power but reduces... —
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