Vladimir Jurowski reviews

R Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie; Salome – Dance of the Seven Veils; Die Frau ohne Schatten – excerpts

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski (LPO)

Motherland: Works by Bartók, Dvořák, Shor & Walton

David Aaron Carpenter; London Philharmonic Orchestra/Kazushi Ono, Vladimir Jurowski, David Parry  (Warner)

Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame

Oleg Kulko et al; Gary Bertini Choir; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski (Helicon)

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia ‘Evgeny Svetlanov’/Vladimir Jurowski (Pentatone)

Berg: Wozzeck

Matthias Goerne, Asmik Grigorian, Frances Pappas, John Daszak et al; Vienna State Opera Choir; Salzburg Festival & Theatre Children’s Choir; Vienna Philharmonic/Vladimir Jurowski; dir. William Kentridge (Harmonia Mundi, DVD)

Mozart: Flute Concerto No. 2, etc

London Philharmonic Orchestra/Vladimir Jurowski, et al (LPO)

Jurowski conducts Prokofiev's Second and Third Symphonies

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Vladimir Jurowski gives a 'no-nonsense and sometimes rather brisk approach' to Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty

Given the sheer multitude of recordings of Tchaikovsky’s ballets, it seems perhaps foolhardy of ICA Classics to release a recording, even at mid-price, of Sleeping Beauty based entirely on a single live concert performance. One of today’s most acclaimed conductors, Vladimir Jurowski’s characteristically no-nonsense and sometimes rather brisk approach informs this account by the Moscow-based State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia.

Jurowski conducts orchestral works by Mahler and Strauss

I can sympathise with Vladimir Jurowski’s evident desire to combat hyperinflation in the opening of Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Sometimes this spectacular musical daybreak is worked up so much that it utterly eclipses the rest of the work. The sensitive, finely shaped, searching performance that follows on makes a good case for playing things down at the start. The trouble is, the opening now sounds perfunctory – as though Jurowski just can’t wait to get to the ‘real’ business.