More By Artist: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 2 - Symphonies Nos. 5 and 9 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "Petrenko's Fifth is remarkable for the tight discipline and detailed characterisation of musicians plainly on the up. The five-movement Ninth has sufficient energy and muscle to make it more than a mere divertissement." Gramophone Magazine Editor's... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 3 - Symphony No 8 in C minor Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "Excellent playing from all departments of the orchestra plus vividly natural engineering complete what is easily the best installment of this ongoing cycle to date." (10/10 ClassicsToday) |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 4 - Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] "Petrenko's Shostakovich cycle goes from strength to strength...If there has been a finer account of the Tenth in recent years, I confess I must have missed it." Gramophone Award WINNER 2011 - Orchestral |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 5 - Symphonies Nos 1 & 3 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "This series… is developing into something really special. These RLPO Shostakovich recordings withstand comparisons with some of the greatest performances on disc." Hugh Canning, The Sunday Times |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol. 6 - Symphonies Nos 6 & 12 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "The deftness of the RLPO is admirable and the performance certainly rounds off in great style what is a very fine reading of the entire work...Petrenko and the RLPO and their commitment never wavers; nor does the excellence of the playing... |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphonies, Vol 9: Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 43 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] "the Liverpool players get around the enormous technical challenges with great verve, and the self-destructive climaxes are never shirked. But there's a brittleness to how Petrenko treats some of the episodes. Much of his reading, though, is spot-on" |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Symphony No. 1 / Cockaigne Overture Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ ONYX / CD - released 10/Mar/2015 ] "The Symphony No 1…is given both monumental weight and graced with individual playing of character and loveliness, the woodwind particularly splendid." (Independent on Sunday) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13 / Prince Rostislav Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Warner Classics / CD - released 1/May/2014 ] BBC Music Award Nomination 2015 - Orchestral |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 3, 4 & 6 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ Onyx / 2 CD - released 9/May/2017 ] "The RLPO play their socks off and must rank as one of the finest 'Russian orchestras' in the UK today...I commend Petrenko's as the finest modern cycle of Tchaikovsky's symphonies currently available." Gramophone Disc of the Month March 2017 |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos 1, 2 & 5 Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko [ ONYX / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2016 ] "Alive and articulate, these three performances remind us that it's just as possible to be stunned by an original interpretation of a familiar symphony." RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2017 BBC Music Magazine |
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Great Russian Symphonies [10 CD set] Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Vasily Petrenko / National Symphony of the Ukraine, Theodore Kuchar / Russian Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky, etc [ Naxos / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2015 ] The first attempts at a Russian Nationalist symphony were made in the late nineteenth-century by Balakirev and his acolytes, Borodin and Rimsky-Korsakov as well as by Tchaikovsky, whose symphonies have a distinctly Russian flavour. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich; The Complete Symphonies (11 CD set) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko, with Alexander Vinogradov (bass) & Gal James (soprano) [ Naxos / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2015 ] Vasily Petrenko was appointed principal conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in 2006 and in 2009 became Chief Conductor. He is also Chief Conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. He was the Classical BRIT Awards Male Artist of... |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphony No 1 / Karelia Suite / Swan of Tuonela / Finlandia Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Nov/2012 ] "Gibson was a much under-recorded conductor, so this reissue of his tight-reined, yet sweepingly intense way with early Sibelius is especially welcome. The RPO responds to him in classy style." (BBC Music) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
British Light Classics (Incls 'Mexican Hat Dance', 'Bells Across the Meadow' & 'Dam Busters March') Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth [ Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/2007 ] "Old favourites and rarer items make this an outstanding collection… Altogether outstandingly compiled, played and recorded… If you want just one CD to represent British light music, this is it." (Gramophone on the first CD in this set, August 2004) |
DANIEL JONES
Symphony No.6 / Symphony No.9 / The Country Beyond the Stars Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra / Sir Charles Groves & Bryden Thomson [ Lyrita / CD - released 30/Aug/2008 ] "I have no doubt that there are those who will find this disc (or at the very least parts of it) nothing short of revelatory." (MusicWeb March 2004) |
JODY TALBOT
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Austin [ Signum / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] The Royal Ballet's 2011 production of 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was their first full-scale commission in 20 years and was instantly acclaimed as a classic. |
ERNEST BLOCH
Symphony in E flat major Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Dalia Atlas [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jun/2014 ] This program includes some of the least known masterpieces from Ernest Bloch's nearly 30 works for orchestra. Macbeth: Two Symphonic Interludes is an intoxicating and passionate distillation of Shakespeare's powerful drama. In Memoriam is a brief... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.4. / Capriccio Italien Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniele Gatti [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/May/2009 ] "Daniele Gatti's music directorship of the Royal Philharmonic is generally considered to be the finest thing to happen to the orchestra in years. Just how far he's managed to turn them into a force to be reckoned with can be gauged by this powerhouse... |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphonies Nos 4, 5 & 6 / Romeo & Juliet / Capriccio italien / Serenade for Strings Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniele Gatti [ Harmonia Mundi / 3 CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - "The performance is magnetic; Gatti has the full measure of Tchaikovsky's white-heat inspiration. Altogether an excellent recommendation." The Gramophone on the Pathetique. |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.5. / Romeo & Juliet Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniele Gatti [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / SACD - released 11/Apr/2004 ] "Gatti strips away layers of accrued misreadings of the scores and instead unearths tempos and dynamics as originally stipulated by the composer. Wonderful." Andrew Clarke, The Independent, 7-13 February 2004, ***** - On Hybrid Super Audio CD... |
