LSO Live reviews
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 4 & 6 (LSO/Pappano)
London Symphony Orchestra/Antonio Pappano (LSO Live)
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 2 (LSO/Rattle)
London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (LSO Live)
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 9 & 10 (LSO/Noseda)
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (LSO Live)
Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen; Sinfonietta
Lucy Crowe, Gerald Finley, et al; LSO/Simon Rattle (LSO Live)
Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 1 & 5
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (LSO Live)
Paganini: 24 Caprices
Roman Simovic (LSO Live)
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 and Manfred Overture
London Symphony Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner (LSO Live)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (LSO Live)
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 3
LSO/Nikolaj Znaider (LSO Live)
Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (LSO Live)
Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 (LSO/Rattle)
London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (LSO Live)
Simon Rattle’s LSO directorial debut brilliantly captured in no-frills film
‘There are no visual gimmicks, no additional features, and not even the titles of the works in the programme are shown’
Simon Rattle conducts Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring
The Rite of Spring does not dominate here, not because the performance is lame. Rather, it is part of something truly exceptional, joined here by masterpieces from Webern, Berg and Ligeti in performances of outstanding beauty, passion and power. This film captures a concert at the Barbican from January 2015, when the public courtship between the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle was still ongoing and their artistic marriage not yet certain.