LSO reviews
Manu Martin: Lim Fantasy of Companionship...
Tedd Joselson (piano); LSO/Arthur Fagen et al (Signum Classics)
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)
Elgar: Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata
Renaud Capuçon (violin), Stephen Hough (piano); London Symphony Orchestra/Simon Rattle (Erato)
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)
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 and Manfred Overture
London Symphony Orchestra/John Eliot Gardiner (LSO Live)
Mahler: Symphony No. 1; plus Wagner & Strauss Orchestral Works
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra/Erich Leinsdorf (Eloquence)
Elgar: Symphony No. 2 and Marches
London Symphony Orchestra/Colin Davis (ALC 1407)
Benjamin Britten: Choral Works
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), London Symphony Orchestra/Benjamin Britten
Hommage à Penderecki
Anne-Sophie Mutter, Roman Patkoló, Lambert Orkis; London Symphony Orchestra/Krzysztof Penderecki (DG)
R Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel; Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1; Brahms: Violin Concerto
Endre Wolf; Paul Tortelier; LSO/Norman Del Mar, Walter Goehr; Philharmonia Orchestra/Herbert Menges (First Hand Records)
French Cello Concertos: Works by Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Massenet, Milhaud & Offenbach
Hee-Young Lim; London Symphony Orchestra/Scott Yoo (Sony)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (LSO Live)
Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos 1, 2 & 3
LSO/Nikolaj Znaider (LSO Live)
Namin: Centuria S-Quark Symphony
London Symphony Orchestra/Lee Reynolds (Navona Records)
Musorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4
London Symphony Orchestra/Gianandrea Noseda (LSO Live)
Elgar (Sheku Kanneh-Mason)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello), et al; LSO/Simon Rattle (Decca)
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.