LSO Live CD Reviews Chos de l’année Le monde de la Musique Awards (France), 2003 Berlioz Harold en Italie Top 10 Classical CDs of the Year Ballet Music from Les Troyens Sunday Times (UK), 2003 Sir ‘Another outstanding Berlioz recording from the leading interpreter of the composer today and his peerless LSO. London Orchestra Tabea Zimmermann is superb in the symphonic trouser role of Byron’s Harold, digging into the viola’s strings with the Availability same sense of abandon as her illustrious conductor and Released July 2003 (UK release date) orchestral partners. Another triumph in the LSO’s Berlioz CD LSO0040 (822231104025) – UK srp £4.99 Odyssey’ download from all good digital music stores Record of the Month & Editor’s Choice Gramophone Magazine, September 2003 Description Sir Colin Davis returns to Berlioz in the year of the ‘Pour son deuxieme enregistrement de Harold en Italie, composer's bicentenary. His previous recordings in the Colin Davis trouve en Tabea Zimmermann le plus splendide series have won among others two Grammy Awards, a son d’alto d’aujourd’hui’ Gramophone Award and two Classical Brits, as well as three Choc du Monde de la Musique Editor's Choices in Gramophone Magazine. Le monde de la Musique (France), July/August 2003 Recording information ‘Colin Davis’s Berlioz is so much in a class of its own that any James Mallinson producer recording he makes comes automatically recommended. Tony Faulkner balance engineer (Harold en Italie) But this account seems to outstrip even Davis’s own … Simon Rhodes balance engineer (ballet music) The soloist is the marvellous Tabea Zimmermann; her noble A high density recording, live at the Barbican Centre on tone and commanding presence are perfectly etched against 16–17 February 2003 (Harold en Italie) and the orchestral backdrop.’ 3–8 December 2000 (ballet music) The Guardian (UK), 4 July 2003 Total playing time 52m18 ‘This is a scorcher … in Tabea Zimmermann it has a viola 20 page book with notes in English, French and German soloist as characterful as Davis’ conducting and the LSO’s playing’ Artistic quality 10 Sound quality 10 For further information visit lso.co.uk or contact Disc of the Month Chaz Jenkins Head of LSO Live ClassicsToday.com, July 2003 T +44 (0)20 7382 2516 E [email protected]

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‘Davis remains an incomparable Berliozian, relishing the composer’s astonishingly pictorial orchestral panoramas as if encountering them for the first time. And Zimmermann is his best “Harold” yet, perfectly capturing the aching, yearning soul of the score’s unifying character’ Classical CD of the Week Also available Sunday Times (UK), 15 June 2003 Berlioz Les Troyens – Sir Colin Davis Ben Heppner, Michelle DeYoung, Petra Lang 5 Diapason 4CD LSO0010 Diapason (France), July/August 2003 Berlioz Édition du bicentenaire – Sir Colin Davis 12CD LSO0046 ‘the performance appears even more beautiful than it was live. There are not many viola gods or goddesses in the world, but Zimmermann is one … Davis brings formidable experience and maturity to his job as master of revels’ The Times (UK), 8 July 2003 Also available ‘Soloist Tabea Zimmermann gets the sound just right. Her Berlioz La damnation de Faust – Sir Colin Davis sound is sensuously rich … Davis relishes the emotional Giuseppe Sabbatini, Michele Pertusi, Enkelejda Shkosa extravagance of it all’ 2CD LSO0008 Evening Standard (UK), 1 July 2003 Berlioz Béatrice et Bénédict – Sir Colin Davis Enkelejda Shkosa, Kenneth Tarver, Sara Mingardo 2CD LSO0004

Berlioz Roméo et Juliette – Sir Colin Davis Daniela Barcellona, Kenneth Tarver, Orlin Anastassov 2CD LSO0003

Berlioz – Sir Colin Davis CD LSO0007 For further information visit lso.co.uk or contact Chaz Jenkins Head of LSO Live T +44 (0)20 7382 2516 E [email protected]

Gavin Bayliss LSO Live Product & Stock Manager T +44 (0)20 7382 2543 E [email protected]

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