Tags Archives: Symphony
November 14, 2014
Mahler: Symphony No 8 (LSO, Valery Gergiev)
Valery Gergiev conductor Outstanding Recording International Record Review ‘magnetic and compelling’ The Scotsman Mahler’s monumental Eighth Symphony is, unusually for a symphony, structured in two-parts. Part I’s exuberant hymn of praise to t
November 14, 2014
Mahler: Symphony No. 3 (LSO, Valery Gergiev)
The Best Albums of 2008 eMusic ‘I’ve never heard the opening Pan Awakes music more marvellously vivid … you won’t hear more brilliant playing than the LSO’s’ Sunday Times Following his principle that “the symphony mus
November 14, 2014
Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony (LSO, Richard Hickox)
Gerald Finley Susan Gritton London Symphony Orchestra Richard Hickox (Conductor)
November 14, 2014
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (LSO, Bernard Haitink)
Bernard Haitink conductor Twyla Robinson soprano Karen Cargill mezzo John Mac Master tenor Gerald Finlay bass CD of the Week BBC Radio 3 CD Review ‘enough orchestral punch to knock a listener senseless …’ The Times Beethoven’s Nint
November 14, 2014
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (CBSO, Sir Simon Rattle)
Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand, recorded June 2004 in Symphony Hall, Birmingham Juliane Banse, Christine Brewer, Jane Henschel, Soile Isoloski, , John Relyea, Birgit Remmert, Jon Villars, David Wilson-Johnson CBSO Chorus, City of Birmingham Symphon