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Recent concert reviews
Scheherazade
15 Dec 2010 7:30 PM
bachtrack.com, 17
Dec
2010
Pappano and the LSO thoroughly succeeded in mixing a high level of technique with all the dynamism of an orchestra playing the pieces for the first time.
Evening Standard, 16
Dec
2010
In Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Simovic once again shone, while in Bernardo Verde’s bassoon solos we could almost imagine the opening of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring taking shape, decades before the event: an object lesson in individual virtuosity serving the team ethic.
classicalsource.com, 16
Dec
2010
Roman Simovic once again featured, affable and seductive in his solo passages representing the storyteller of the title; this Scheherazade found the LSO playing at the peak of its powers.
Debussy La mer
9 Dec 2010 7:30 PM
The Times, 13
Dec
2010
Pappano’s powerful reading of Debussy’s La Mer was overwhelming in its passion and grandeur.
classicalsource.com, 10
Dec
2010
[Debussy La mer was] a pastel-shaded version that glowed with personality, rigorously etched but never at the expense of suggestion and fluctuation, the three movements played virtually attacca, the music’s impressions dappled with a generous brush, climaxes achieved seamlessly, the LSO’s response alive to pregnant anticipation, ripples and tempest.
Mahler connections
5 Dec 2010 7:30 PM
The Guardian, 7
Dec
2010
[Alsop] gave Leonora No 3 a terrific dramatic charge, and the LSO's outstanding playing ensured that the extra tonal power really counted.
Financial Times, 7
Dec
2010
It is difficult to imagine [Alma Mahler's songs] sounding better, sung by mezzo Sarah Connolly with a radiant warmth that made them glow and inspirationally scored by the Matthews brothers.
The Times (subscription required), 6
Dec
2010
Alsop’s conducting of Mahler’s orchestration of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony shone with conviction, from the delicacy of the counterpointing strings in the second movement to the truly Dionysian frenzy of the finale.
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Recent CD reviews
Ravel Daphnis et Chloé, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Boléro
The Scotsman, 23
Nov
2010
The main work – the ravishing ballet Daphnis et Chloé – gets the full wistful treatment from conductor Valery Gergiev, who allows every golden moment to emerge with delicious piquancy and crystalline clarity.
Verdi Otello
New Zealand Herald, 27
Nov
2010
The release itself, on LSO Live, cements just how valuable the London Symphony Orchestra's own label has become in its 10 years of existence.
The Observer, 14
Nov
2010
... this is a spellbinding account, thanks to O'Neill, Anne Schwanewilms's Desdemona and Gerald Finley's Jago, but above all to Colin Davis's warm, urgent but never forced interpretation.
Financial Times, 16
Oct
2010
Davis inspires the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus to a performance of vigour and refinement, and it’s for their contribution – and Gerald Finley’s suave, stylish Iago – that this recording stands out
Mahler Symphony No 4
Daily Telegraph, 7
Apr
2010
Gergiev’s febrile intensity lends itself well to the neurotic quality of Mahler’s music ... the orchestra is superb.
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