LSO Live

Catalogue May 2011

LSO Live London Symphony Orchestra LSO Live recordings capture the energy and emotion of The London Symphony Orchestra was formed in the greatest live performances, combined with the highest 1904 by a group of musicians who worked for conductor technical standards and levels of refinement. Sir Henry Wood. They wanted to run their own orchestra and be free to choose which conductors they worked with. Recording in concert used to mean making compromises They described the LSO as a musical republic and the in order to capture the vitality that was hard to recreate in new orchestra proved to be an overnight success. the studio. However, the best technology can now be used in the concert hall. Today the LSO gives around 70 concerts per year in London and up to 90 on tour. The orchestra tours regularly By editing several performances together we produce throughout Europe, North America and the Far East. master recordings that retain the feel of a concert Valery Gergiev has been the LSO’s Principal Conductor performance without any of the distractions. since 2007 and its President is Sir .

Since its lauch in 2000, LSO Live has released over 75 The LSO also runs the world’s longest-established and most albums and collected numerous awards. The LSO was extensive orchestral education programme, LSO Discovery. already the world’s most recorded orchestra, having worked Based at the LSO St Luke’s music education centre, for numerous labels and appeared on many of the most Discovery gives people of all ages and abilities the well-known movie soundtracks. However investing in our opportunity to work with the LSO’s players, learn own recordings means the musicians can ensure every about music and improve their skills. release is of the highest quality and enables anyone to enjoy music at its best. For further information on all the LSO’s activities visit lso.co.uk LSO Live was one of the first classical labels to offer downloads in order to reach new audiences. We also release all our new recordings in the Super Audio CD (SACD) format. SACDs are compatible with any CD player but allow listeners with dedicated SACD players to enjoy high definition versions of the recordings with multi-channel sound.

photo: Alberto Venzago LSO Live London Symphony Orchestra LSO Live London Symphony Orchestra Les enregistrements de LSO Live combinent l’énergie et Le London Symphony Orchestra a été fondé en 1904 par Einspielungen des Labels LSO Live vermitteln die Energie Das London Symphony Orchestra wurde 1904 von einer l’émotion des meilleurs concerts avec l’exigence et un ensemble de musiciens travaillant pour le chef und Emotion der großartigsten Aufführungen mit höchster Gruppe von Musikern gegründet, die für den Dirigenten le raffinement techniques les plus élevés. d’orchestre Sir Henry Wood. Ils voulaient lancer leur propre technischer Qualität und Finesse. Henry Wood spielten. Sie wollten ihr eigenes Orchester orchestre et être libres de choisir les chefs avec lesquels leiten und die Wahl haben, mit welchen Dirigenten sie Longtemps, capter des interprétations sur le vif a été ils collaboreraient. Ils décrivirent le LSO comme une Liveaufzeichnungen bedeuteten früher gewöhnlich zusammenarbeiteten. Sie beschrieben das LSO als eine synonyme de compromis ; mais aujourd’hui, on peut « république musicale », et l’orchestre connut un succès Kompromisse, aber heutzutage kann mit Hilfe der besten musikalische Republik, und das Orchester war über recourir dans les salles de concert aux technologies immédiat. Aufnahmetechnik im Konzertsaal die Vitalität festgehalten Nacht ein Erfolg. d’enregistrement les plus avancées et saisir ainsi cette werden, die im Studio so schwer nachzustellen ist. vitalité si difficile à recréer en studio. En croisant au Aujourd’hui, le LSO donne environ 70 concerts par Durch das Zusammenschneiden mehrerer Aufführungen Heute gibt das LSO ungefähr 70 Konzerte pro Jahr in montage les prises de différents concerts, on est en an à Londres et jusqu’à 90 en tournée. Il se produit können wir eine Vorlage schaffen, die die Spannung einer London und bis zu 90 auf Tournee. Es ist regelmäßig auf mesure de réaliser un master qui conserve l’excitation de régulièrement à travers l’Europe, l’Amérique du Nord et Konzertaufführung ohne unerwünschte Nebengeräusche Konzertreise durch Europa, Nordamerika und im Fernen l’interprétation en public tout en se débarrassant des l’Extrême-Orient. Valery Gergiev en est le premier chef bewahrt. Osten. Waleri Gergijew ist seit 2007 Chefdirigent des LSO bruits indésirables. invité depuis 2007, et son président est Sir Colin Davis. und Sir Colin Davis sein Präsident. Seit 2000 veröffentlichte das LSO Live über 75 Alben Depuis 2000, LSO Live a publié plus de 75 albums et Le LSO a également mis en place l’un des programmes und nahm zahlreiche Preise entgegen. Das London Das LSO organisiert auch das in der Welt am längsten obtenu de nombreuses récompenses. Le LSO était déjà pédagogiques les plus anciens et les plus développés Symphony Orchestra war schon früher das am meisten laufende und umfangreichste Bildungsprogramm eines l’orchestre le plus enregistré au monde, ayant collaboré au monde, LSO Discovery. Situé au centre d’éducation aufgenommene Orchester der Welt, hatte es doch für Orchesters: LSO Discovery. Mit seinem Sitz im Londoner avec de nombreux labels et apparaissant sur la plupart des musicale LSO St Luke, Discovery offre aux personnes de zahlreiche Plattenfirmen gearbeitet und viele der Musikbildungszentrum LSO St Luke’s schafft Discovery bandes-son de cinéma les plus fameuses. Toutefois, investir tous âges et de tout niveau musical la possibilité de berühmtesten Filmmusiken eingespielt. Die Investition in die Möglichkeit für Menschen aller Altersgruppen und dans ses propres enregistrements permet à l’orchestre travailler avec les musiciens du LSO, d’acquérir des unsere eigenen Aufnahmen ermöglicht dem Orchester Veranlagungen, mit Musikern des LSO zusammenzuarbeiten, de s’assurer que chaque publication sera d’une qualité connaissances en musique et de développer leur talent. jedoch abzusichern, dass jede Veröffentlichung den etwas über Musik zu lernen und ihre Fertigkeiten optimale et d’offrir à chacun la possibilité d’écouter de la höchsten Qualitätsansprüchen genügt und das Hören zu entwickeln. musique dans les meilleurs conditions. Pour plus de renseignements sur l’ensemble des activités der besten Musik allen Menschen zugänglich ist. du LSO, le site lso.co.uk est à votre disposition. Weitere Informationen über alle Tätigkeiten des LSO finden LSO Live a été l’un des premiers labels à permettre Das LSO Live war eines der ersten klassischen Plattenfirmen, Sie unter lso.co.uk le téléchargement, de manière à toucher un public plus die Downloads anboten, um ein breiteres Publikum large. Nous éditons également nos enregistrements dans le anzusprechen. Wir geben auch unsere Einspielungen im format Super Audio CD (SACD). Les SACD sont compatibles SACD Format (Super Audio Compact Disc) heraus. SACDs avec n’importe quel lecteur de CD mais permettent aux lassen sich auf allen CD-Spielern abspielen, ermöglichen auditeurs possédant des lecteurs SACD de profiter d’un aber den Hörern mit speziellen SACD-Spielern den Genuss son multi-canaux en haute définition. eines hochaufgelösten, mehrkanaligen Klangs. 6 Bartók – Beethoven Sir Colin Davis

Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle Beethoven Mass in C Valery Gergiev Sir Colin Davis Elena Zhidkova Sally Matthews LSO Live Sir Willard White LSO Live Sara Mingardo

Bartók London Symphony Chorus, LSO Beethoven John Mark Ainsley Bluebeard’s Castle Mass in C Valery Gergiev Sir Colin Davis Elena Zhidkova SACD LSO0685 (822231168522) Sally Matthews Sir Willard White Sara Mingardo London Symphony Chorus, LSO London Symphony Orchestra John Mark Ainsley Alistair Miles London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra SACD LSO0594 (822231159421)

Opera Choice of the Month BBC Music Magazine (UK) ‘Colin Davis leads a superb quartet of soloists and brings Disc of the Month Magazine (UK) out all the humanity and tenderness of the music with his ffff Télérama (France) customary skill. The LSC responds brilliantly ... another La Clef Res Musica (France) winner from LSO Live’ Classic FM Magazine (UK) ‘a dramatic performance of a dramatic work’ International Record Review (UK)

Beethoven Fidelio Sir Colin Davis Christine Brewer LSO Live John Mac Master Beethoven Kristinn Sigmundsson Fidelio Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Chorus, LSO Christine Brewer John Mac Master Kristinn Sigmundsson Sally Matthews 2SACD LSO0593 (822231159322) Juha Uusitalo London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra

Recordings of the Year Opera News (US) Disc of the Month Opera Magazine (UK) ‘so impressive that it ranks with the greatest accounts I have ever heard of this work, or almost anything’ BBC Music Magazine (UK) photo: Alberto Venzago 8 available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 9 Beethoven Beethoven

Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Symphony No 7 Beethoven Symphony No 3 Symphonies Nos 5 & 1 Triple Concerto Symphonies Nos 1–9 Leonore Overture No 2 , LSO Bernard Haitink Triple Concerto LSO Live Bernard Haitink, LSO LSO Live LSO Live Gordan Nikolitch, Tim Hugh LSO Live Bernard Haitink, LSO SACD LSO0590 (822231159025) Beethoven Beethoven Lars Vogt, LSO Symphony No 3 ‘Eroica’ SACD LSO0580 (822231158028) Beethoven Symphony No 7 6SACD LSO0598 (822231159827) Leonore Overture No 2 Symphony No 5 Triple Concerto Beethoven Symphony No 1 SACD LSO0578 (822231157823) Symphonies Nos 1–9 Bernard Haitink Bernard Haitink Special Edition London Symphony Orchestra Bernard Haitink Gordan Nikolitch London Symphony Orchestra Tim Hugh Bernard Haitink Lars Vogt London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra

‘a tide of orchestral eloquence – truly Promethean’ ‘ An excellent Fifth … Such instinctive, unostentatious Benchmark Recording ‘a blazing performance’ Benchmark Beethoven Cycle BBC Music Magazine (UK) Sunday Telegraph (UK) musicianship is as rare now as it ever was’ Gramophone (UK) Performance ***** Sound ***** Classical Recordings of the Year New York Times (US) BBC Music Magazine (UK) CDs of the Year Philadelphia Enquirer (US) ‘I respect Haitink for his willingness to rethink his ‘a modern-day reference much like the Klemperer 10in LP CDs of the Year Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden) interpretation and the LSO for its evident enthusiasm’ fifty years ago’ HiFi News (UK) ‘the latest gem from LSO Live ... a sensational coupling of ClassicsToday.com (US) masterworks‘ The Times (UK) ‘ a towering achievement’ The Times (UK)

Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Symphony No 9 Symphonies Nos 4 & 8 Symphonies Nos 6 & 2 Bernard Haitink Bernard Haitink, LSO Bernard Haitink, LSO Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill LSO Live LSO Live LSO Live John Mac Master SACD LSO0587 (822231158721) SACD LSO0582 (822231158226) Beethoven Beethoven Beethoven Gerald Finley Symphony No 4 Symphony No 6 ‘Pastoral’ Symphony No 9 ‘Choral’ London Symphony Chorus, LSO Symphony No 8 Symphony No 2 Bernard Haitink Bernard Haitink Bernard Haitink Twyla Robinson London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Karen Cargill John Mac Master SACD LSO0592 (822231159223) Gerald Finley London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra

Disc of the Month - Performance ***** Sound ***** Editor’s Choice ‘terrifically enjoyable’ Gramophone (UK) CD of the Week ‘this recording has impressed every one BBC Music Magazine (UK) of the CD Review team’ BBC Radio 3 CD Review (UK) ‘if anyone were to ask me which version of the Pastoral Disc of the Month Artistic Quality 10, Sound Quality 10 I would recommend, I would first of all direct them to ‘ a magisterial account’ Chicago Tribune (US) ClassicsToday.com (US) this one’ International Record Review (UK) 10 available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 11 Berlioz Berlioz

Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict Berlioz La damnation de Faust Berlioz Harold en Italie Berlioz Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis Symphonie fantastique Enkelejda Shkosa Giuseppe Sabbatini Tabea Zimmermann, LSO Sir Colin Davis, LSO Kenneth Tarver Michele Pertusi CD LSO0040 (822231104025) CD LSO0007 (822231100720) Sara Mingardo Enkelejda Shkosa Susan Gritton London Symphony Chorus, LSO London Symphony Chorus, LSO 2CD LSO0008 (822231100829) 2CD LSO0004 (822231100423)

‘ there is not a bar that does not sparkle or soothe … Editor’s Choice ‘outshines previous sets. Davis is given Choc de l’année Le monde de la Musique (France) Editor’s Choice Gramophone (UK) This is a musical feast’ The Times (UK) wonderfully refined sound’ Gramophone (UK) Disc of the Month ClassicsToday.com (US) Best Buy Classic FM Magazine (UK) Disc of the Month Gramophone (UK) ‘ a limpid and exhilarating delight ... Davis touches Recommendé Classica (France) everything with quicksilver’ Sunday Times (UK) ‘a triumphant benchmark recording’ The Guardian (UK)

Berlioz Benvenuto Cellini Berlioz L’enfance du Christ Berlioz Roméo et Juliette Berlioz Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis Gregory Kunde Yann Beuron, Karen Cargill Ben Heppner, Petra Lang LSO Live LSO Live William Dazeley Kenneth Tarver Michelle DeYoung , Isabelle Cals Matthew Rose Orlin Anastassov Sara Mingardo, Peter Mattei Berlioz Peter Coleman-Wright Berlioz Peter Rose London Symphony Chorus, LSO London Symphony Chorus, LSO Benvenuto Cellini L’enfance du Christ Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Chorus, LSO Sir Colin Davis Tenebrae Choir, LSO Gregory Kunde Yann Beuron 2CD LSO0003 (822231100324) 4CD LSO0010 (822231101024) Laura Claycomb Karen Cargill Darren Jeffery 2SACD LSO0623 (822231162322) William Dazeley 2SACD LSO0606 (822231160625) Peter Coleman–Wright Matthew Rose Peter Rose Isabelle Cals Tenebrae Choir London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra

Editor’s Choice Gramophone (UK) CDs of the Year New York Times (US) Performance ***** Sound ***** ‘the vitality, passion Best Classical Album & Best Opera Grammy Awards (US) Choc Le Monde de la Musique (France) CDs of the Year Financial Times (UK) and warmth, are extraordinary’ BBC Music Magazine (UK) Best Opera Award Gramophone Awards (UK) CDs of the Year Opera News (US) CDs of the Year ClassicsToday.com (US) Critics’ Choice Award Classical Brits (UK) CDs of the Year Classic FM Magazine (UK) ‘Davis’s mastery is evident in matters great and small’ Orphée d’Or Académie Du Disque Lyrique (France) International Record Review (UK) Grand Prix du Disc Académie Charles Cros (France) 12 13 Berlioz – Brahms Bernard Haitink

Berlioz Brahms Symphony No 1 Edition du bicentenaire Tragic Overture 12 disc set Bernard Haitink, LSO Sir Colin Davis, LSO CD LSO0045 (822231104520) 12CD LSO0046 (822231104629)

Includes the award-winning recordings of: ‘ a revelatory re-interpretation’ The Observer (UK) Béatrice et Bénédict, La damnation de Faust Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette ‘The opening bars of the symphony, hammered out with Symphonie fantastique, Les Troyens real force and energy, set the tone for a fine, full-blooded performance … hard to beat’ Mail on Sunday (UK)

Brahms Brahms Symphony No 2 Ein deutsches Double Concerto André Previn Bernard Haitink Harolyn Blackwell Gordan Nikolitch, Tim Hugh David Wilson-Johnson LSO London Symphony Chorus, LSO CD LSO0043 (822231104322) CD LSO0005 (822231100522)

‘Altogether outstanding, fresh and revealing’ Editor’s Choice Gramophone (UK) Gramophone (UK) ‘a classic recording’ The Independent (UK) ‘a long-overdue and invigorating face-lift to this much- recorded work’ ClassicsToday.com (US) ‘ scintillating … blazing performances’ The Observer (UK) photo: Kevin Leighton available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 15 Sir Colin Davis Brahms – Britten

Brahms Symphony No 3 Brahms Serenade No 2 Symphonies Nos 1–4 Bernard Haitink, LSO Double Concerto LSO Live Serenade No 2 CD LSO0056 (822231105626) Brahms Tragic Overture Symphonies Nos 1–4 Double Concerto Bernard Haitink, Serenade No 2 Bernard Haitink Gordan Nikolitch, Tim Hugh London Symphony Orchestra LSO 4CD LSO0070 (822231107026)

Benchmark Recording ‘a really beautiful performance’ Bernard Haitink’s acclaimed Brahms cycle available BBC Music Magazine (UK) as a four disc set ‘enchanting … The sense we have here is of a musician re-discovering a piece he once loved and mistakenly thought he knew’ Gramophone (UK)

Brahms Symphony No 4 Britten Bernard Haitink, LSO Sir Colin Davis Glenn Winslade CD LSO0057 (822231105725) Janice Watson Anthony Michaels-Moore Catherine Wyn-Rogers London Symphony Chorus, LSO 3CD LSO0054 (822231105428)

‘ the crowning glory of Bernard Haitink’s Brahms cycle’ ‘ a stunning achievement’ Gramophone (UK) BBC Radio 3 CD Review (UK) ‘Another triumph from the LSO Live Label ... ‘ This ranks with such classic Fourths as Kleiber’s, Karajan’s a strong contender for recording of the year’ and Toscanini’s’ Hi-Fi News (UK) Classic FM Magazine (UK) photo: Matt Stuart 16 Bruckner – Debussy Valery Gergiev

Bruckner Symphony No 6 New – April 2011 Sir Colin Davis, LSO LSO Live Debussy La mer, Jeux Prélude à l’après-midi CD LSO0022 (822231102229) d’un faune Valery Gergiev, LSO SACD LSO0692 (822231169222)

Debussy La mer | Jeux Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Valery Gergiev London Symphony Orchestra

Benchmark Recording BBC Music Magazine (UK) ‘a great orchestra in great form ... And the disc proves Best Buy Classic FM Magazine (UK) Gergiev to be a fine Debussy conductor ... there is a certitude as well as subtlety even in the subtle textures of ‘an ideal starter for the uninitiated and a must for the the Prélude, while in La Mer, one can almost taste the salt connoisseur’ The Observer (UK) spray’ Sunday Times (UK)

Bruckner Symphony No 9 Sir Colin Davis, LSO CD LSO0023 (822231102328)

‘ A magisterial account’ Daily Telegraph (UK) ‘ a remarkable performance, personal and far-seeing’ Gramophone (UK)

photo: Alberto Venzago 18 available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 19 Dvořák Dvořák

Dvořák Symphony No 6 Dvořák Symphony No 8 Dvořák Symphonies Nos 6–9 Sir Colin Davis, LSO Sir Colin Davis, LSO Sir Colin Davis, LSO

CD LSO0059 (822231105923) CD LSO0002 (822231100225) LSO Live 3CD LSO0071 (822231107125)

Dvořák

Symphonies Nos 6–9 Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Orchestra

‘a resplendent Sixth … it blazes with Bohemian warmth Benchmark Recording ‘More successfully than any ‘ remarkable ... a winning combination of Davis’s and vivacity’ Daily Telegraph (UK) other recording, he captures the slow movement’s elusive heartwarming direction, the LSO’s refulgent virtuosity heart of darkness’ BBC Music Magazine (UK) and seductive phrasing, and first rate engineering’ ‘a terrific disc … joyous, lyrical, atmospheric, like an Classic FM Magazine (UK) autumn walk in a Bohemian wood’ The Observer (UK) ‘Magnificent ... a joy from start to finish’ The Express (UK)

Dvořák Symphony No 7 Dvořák Symphony No 9 Sir Colin Davis, LSO From the New World Sir Colin Davis, LSO CD LSO0014 (822231101420) CD LSO0001 (822231100126)

‘a tremendous account … gorgeously played … Performance ***** Sound ***** ‘Davis offers a story brilliantly executed’ Evening Standard (UK) and a sense of conviction that place this performance in a wholly different league’ BBC Music Magazine (UK) ‘a beautiful performance … Davis’s love of this music shines out of every bar’ Sunday Times (UK) ‘highly successful … Full marks!’ International Record Review (UK) 20 available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 21 Elgar Elgar

Elgar Elgar Symphony No 1 Elgar Symphony No 3 The Dream of Gerontius Sir Colin Davis, LSO Elaborated by Anthony Payne Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis, LSO CD LSO0017 (822231101727) LSO Live David Rendall CD LSO0019 (822231101925) Elgar Anne Sofie von Otter The Dream of Gerontius Alastair Miles Sir Colin Davis David Rendall London Symphony Chorus, LSO Anne Sofie von Otter Alastair Miles London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra 2CD LSO0083 (822231108320)

‘so magical is Davis’s phrasing that there are times Diapason d’Or Diapason (France) CDs of the Year The Guardian (UK) that one dare not breathe for fear of breaking Editor’s Choice Gramophone (UK) CDs of the Year Sunday Telegraph (UK) the spell’ International Record Review (UK) CDs of the Year The Guardian (UK) CDs of the Year Daily Telegraph (UK) CDs of the Year Sunday Telegraph (UK) ‘a powerful, exciting, totally committed performance from first note to last’ ClassicsToday.com (US)

Elgar Enigma Variations Elgar Symphony No 2 Elgar Symphonies Nos 1–3 Introduction & Allegro Sir Colin Davis, LSO Sir Colin Davis, LSO Sir Colin Davis, LSO LSO Live CD LSO0018 (822231101826) LSO Live 3CD LSO0072 (822231107224) SACD LSO0609 (822231160922) Elgar Elgar Enigma Variations Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Introduction & Allegro Symphony No 3 elaborated Sir Colin Davis by Anthony Payne London Symphony Orchestra Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Orchestra

‘Their Enigma is one of the most beautifully played I can CDs of the Year The Guardian (UK) ‘ No other orchestra is better equipped to perform Elgar’s recall, and certainly one of the most moving accounts … CDs of the Year Sunday Times (UK) music than the LSO’ Gramophone (UK) superlative’ ***** Sunday Times (UK) CDs of the Year Sunday Telegraph (UK) Disc of the Month ClassicsToday.com ‘Sir Colin Davis ... the greatest living Elgarian’ ‘highly recommended’ Audiophile Audition (US) Financial Times (UK) available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 23 Sir Colin Davis Handel – Haydn – Holst

Handel New – June 2011 Sir Colin Davis LSO Live Haydn Die Jahreszeiten Susan Gritton, Sara Mingardo (The Seasons) LSO Live , Alastair Miles Sir Colin Davis Handel Tenebrae Choir, LSO Miah Persson Messiah Sir Colin Davis Jeremy Ovenden Susan Gritton 2SACD+DVD LSO0607 Sara Mingardo Andrew Foster-Williams Mark Padmore (822231160724) Alastair Miles Tenebrae Choir Haydn London Symphony Chorus, LSO London Symphony Orchestra Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons) Sir Colin Davis 2SACD LSO0708 (822231170822) Miah Persson, Jeremy Ovenden, Andrew Foster-Williams London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra

‘a tremendous new recording’ BBC Radio 3 CD Review (UK) ‘Davis had the full measure of the sheer humanity of Haydn’s vision, its tenderness and grandeur, and its ‘The Tenebrae Choir are a marvel to behold ... a marvellous almost childlike sense of delight in the world around him. set by a man who knows the work perhaps better than He also had an excellent trio of soloists at his disposal’ anyone’ Audiophile Audition (US) The Guardian (UK) concert review

Haydn Die Schöpfung Holst The Planets () Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Chorus, LSO LSO Live Sally Matthews, Ian Bostridge CD LSO0029 (822231102922) Haydn Dietrich Henschel Die Schöpfung (The Creation) Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Chorus, LSO Sally Matthews Ian Bostridge Dietrich Henschel 2SACD LSO0628 (822231162827) London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra

‘this recording has a definitive quality about it’ ***** CD of the Week Classic FM (UK) Classic FM Magazine (UK) A:1 Hi-Fi News (UK) ‘The LSO’s magnificent playing is an immediate reminder ‘ Colin Davis, as might be expected, has no problems, of the impact of Davis’s conducting’ ***** conjuring the full panoply of atmosphere, stillness and Sunday Telegraph (UK) energy from the virtuoso LSO’ Daily Telegraph (UK) photo: Alberto Venzago available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 25 Valery Gergiev Mahler

Mahler Symphony No 1 Mahler Symphony No 3 Valery Gergiev, LSO Valery Gergiev Anna Larsson SACD LSO0663 (822231166320) LSO Live LSO Live Tiffin Boys’ Choir

Mahler Mahler London Symphony Chorus, LSO Symphony No 1 Symphony No 3 Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev London Symphony Orchestra Anna Larsson 2SACD LSO0660 (822231166023) Tiffi n Boys Choir London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra

‘The result ... is irresistible, at once disciplined and ‘an earthy, thrilling mix of vital, hard-edged power and joyfully spontaneous’ Sunday Times (UK) delicate, portrait miniature-style attention to detail ... the overall effect is fiercely vital’ The Times (UK) ‘every detail has been thought about and felt ... This is an extremely hard act to follow’ BBC Music Magazine (UK) ‘you won’t hear more brilliant playing than the LSO’s’ Sunday Times (UK)

Mahler Symphony No 2 Mahler Symphony No 4 Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev Elena Mosuc, Zlata Bulycheva Laura Claycomb, LSO LSO Live London Symphony Chorus, LSO LSO Live SACD LSO0662 (822231166221) Mahler Mahler Symphony No 2 2SACD LSO0666 (822231166627) Symphony No 4 Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev Elena Mosuc Laura Claycomb Zlata Bulycheva London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra

Disc of the Month Audiophile Audition (US) ‘Gergiev’s serene conclusion is beautifully heard’ ****½ Classic FM Magazine (UK) ‘restlessly probing and adrenally free-flowing, pointing up the music’s soul-searching and daring musical ‘Gergiev’s febrile intensity lends itself well to the neurotic juxtapositions’ Classic FM Magazine (UK) quality of Mahler’s music … the orchestra is superb’ Daily Telegraph (UK) photo: Alberto Venzago 26 Mahler Valery Gergiev

New – March 2011 Mahler Symphony No 7 Mahler Symphony No 5 Valery Gergiev, LSO Valery Gergiev, LSO LSO Live LSO Live SACD LSO0665 (822231166528) SACD LSO0664 (822231166422) Mahler Mahler Symphony No 5 Symphony No 7 Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev London Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra

Outstanding Recording ‘a magnificent performance in CDs of the Year BBC Radio 3 CD Review (UK) every respect. The orchestral playing is consistently of the highest quality, the musicians clearly inspired by the insight Disc of the Month ‘I can’t think of another recording and total conviction of their conductor. No one can afford to of this symphony that not only brings so many of its ignore this record’ International Record Review (UK) extraordinary features to life, but also balances them’ BBC Music Magazine (UK)

Mahler Symphony No 6 Mahler Symphony No 8 Valery Gergiev, LSO Valery Gergiev Choir of Eltham College SACD LSO0661 (822231166122) LSO Live LSO Live Choral Arts Society of Washington Mahler Mahler Symphony No 6 Symphony No 8 Valery Gergiev Valery Gergiev London Symphony Chorus, LSO London Symphony Orchestra Choir of Eltham College Choral Arts Society of Washington (recorded in St Paul’s London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra Cathedral) SACD LSO0669 (822231166924)

Disc of the Month Classica-Répertoire (France) IRR Outstanding ‘Gergiev’s command of this work is Disc of the Month Fono Forum (Germany) set before us with unerring mastery ... A great recording’ Editor’s Choice Gramophone (UK) International Record Review (UK) Choc Le Monde de la Musique (France) CDs of the Year Audiophile Audition (US) ‘ a powerful contender for top honors amid a crowded field’ Chicago Tribine (US) photo: Alberto Venzago 23 available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 29 Sir Colin Davis Mahler – MacMillan – Mozart

Mahler Symphony No 6 James MacMillan , LSO The World’s Ransoming The Confession of Isobel 2CD LSO0038 (822231103820) LSO Live Gowdie Sir Colin Davis James MacMillan The World’s Ransoming Christine Pendrill, LSO The Confession of Isobel Gowdie Sir Colin Davis Christine Pendrill CD LSO0124 (822231112426) London Symphony Orchestra

Editor’s Choice Gramophone (UK) ‘ Sir Colin Davis brings this music into vivid focus ... a reading of truly visionary intensity. Stunning recorded ‘ a superlative account of the Sixth Symphony’ sound offers splendid support to these intense Sunday Times (UK) performances’ International Record Review (UK)

James MacMillan Mozart Requiem St John Passion Sir Colin Davis Sir Colin Davis Marie Arnet, Anna Stéphany LSO Live LSO Live Andrew Kennedy

James MacMillan London Symphony Chorus, LSO Mozart Darren Jeffery St John Passion Requiem London Symphony Chorus, LSO Sir Colin Davis 2SACD LSO0671 (822231167129) Sir Colin Davis Christopher Maltman Marie Arnet London Symphony Chorus Anna Stéphany London Symphony Orchestra Andrew Kennedy SACD LSO0627 (822231162728) Darren Jeffery London Symphony Chorus London Symphony Orchestra

Top 10 Contemporary Discs of the Decade CDs of the Year Opera News (US) The Times (UK) ‘ a grandly scaled, nobly contoured reading, by turns Editor’s Choice ‘A recording for repeated listening and monumental and ferociously dramatic ... superbly total spiritual immersion’ Classic FM Magazine (UK) played and vividly recorded’ Gramophone (UK) photo: Gautier Deblonde 30 available from all good stores and digital music services or order online at lso.co.uk 31 Nielsen – Prokofiev – Rachmaninov – Ravel Shostakovich

New – January 2011 Rachmaninov Shostakovich Shostakovich LSO Live LSO Live Nielsen Symphony No 2 Symphony No 5 Symphony No 11 Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 Valery Gergiev, LSO Mstislav Rostropovich, LSO Mstislav Rostropovich, LSO Sir Colin DAvis, LSO LSO Live SACD LSO0677 (822231167723) SACD LSO0550 (822231105022) SACD LSO0535 (822231103523) Rachmaninov SHOSTAKOVICH 2SACD LSO0682 (822231168225) Symphony No 2 SYMPHONY NO 5 Valery Gergiev London Symphony Orchestra Mstislav Rostropovich London Symphony Orchestra

Nielsen Symphonies Nos 4 & 5 Sir Colin Davis London Symphony Orchestra 1CD

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Best Opera Award Grammy Awards (US) ‘ One of the finest recordings the piece has ever received’ Includes many of Brubeck’s greatest hits including Editor’s Choice Gramophone (UK) Opera News (US) Take Five, Unsquare Dance, Blue Rondo à la Turk and Disc of the Month 10/10 ClassicsToday (US) In Your Own Sweet Way performed by Brubeck and ‘The greatest interpretations are often those where you his band with the LSO ‘ the most exhilarating account of the opera ... Pertusi is are most conscious of the music and least aware of the brilliant in the title-role‘ The Guardian (UK) conductor’s will imposed on it’ The Guardian (UK) 36 37 Buy direct from LSO Live Retailers & distributors Download Join us online

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