ELGAR
Symphony No 2 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 20/May/2002 ] Colin Davis recording Elgar continues the cycle |
BRAHMS
Symphony No 3 / Serenade No 2 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 8/Dec/2007 ] 'a really beautiful performance of the second serenade ... A delight - this seems to me a new benchmark. It goes without saying that the playing is excellent: the LSO can probably play Brahms symphonies in its collective sleep.' (BBC Music) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Symphony No 6 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 8/Dec/2007 ] "an admirable and infectious performance. Sir Colin Davis and his fine players are wonderfully idiomatic and offer a performance of exceptional clarity of detail." Penguin Guide |
DVORAK
Symphony No 8 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 23/Apr/2003 ] 'Unmissable ... Superb in all respects. Sound quality doesn't come any better than this whatever the price. Don't hesitate.' Classic CD |
DVORAK
Symphony No 9 From the new World London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / CD - released 8/Dec/2007 ] 'Davis offers a story and a sense of conviction that place his performance in a wholly different league.' performance ***** sound ***** BBC Music Magazine |
WALTON
Walton: Belshazzar's Feast / Symphony No. 1 (recorded live at the Barbican 2008) Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone) / London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] "The LSO Chorus give Walton's grateful choral writing all they have, and the orchestra revel in his brilliant and unconventional orchestration: E flat clarinet, alto saxophone, exotic percussion and extra brass." Sunday Times, 6th March 2011 **** |
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis-conductor
Bruckner-Symphony No 6 [ LSO Live / CD - released 1/Mar/2003 ] Sir Colin Davis follows his moving performance of Bruckner's ninth symphony with a monumental reading of the Symphony No 6 |
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis - conductor
Bruckner - Symphony No 9 [ LSO Live / CD - released 28/Feb/2003 ] Recorded live at the Barbican Centre on 22 and 24 February 2002 |
DVORAK
Symphonies Nos 6 - 9 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis conductor [ LSO Live / 3 CD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2005 ] 'a resplendent Sixth … it blazes with Bohemian warmth and vivacity' Daily Telegraph (UK), 4 April 2005 |
DVORAK
Symphony No 6 London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / SACD - released 14/Apr/2005 ] Hybrid SACD Compatible with all CD players. Includes high denstity stereo and surround tracks that can be read by SACD players. |
ELGAR
Symphonies Nos 1 - 3 London Symphony Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis conductor [ LSO Live / 3 CD - released 5/Oct/2005 ] 'a radical version that sweeps away preconceived notionsabout the work.The headiness of Davis's approach is matched by the lushness of the LSO's playing and a sumptuous recording' The Guardian (UK),3 May 2002 (on Symphony No 2) |
SMETANA
Ma vlast (My Country) (Rec May 2005) London Symphony Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis conductor [ LSO Live SACD / SACD - released 15/Oct/2005 ] 'Colin Davis's performance of Smetana's Ma Vlast with the London Symphony Orchestra was an irresistible pageant of Czech patriotic fervour, a depiction of ancient battles and pastoral idylls, as well as a revelation of the work's symphonic... |
SMETANA
Ma vlast (My Country) (Rec May 2005) London Symphony Orchestra. Sir Colin Davis conductor [ LSO Live / CD - released 15/Oct/2005 ] "Colin Davis' performance of Smetana's Ma Vlást was an irresistible pageant of Czech patriotic fervour, a depiction of ancient battles and pastoral idylls, as well as a revelation of the work's symphonic integrity" The Guardian, 12 May 2005 |
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 [ LSO / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] Lean and lithe are two descriptions of John Eliot Gardiner's approach to Robert Schumann's music. Add in atmospheric and dramatic for the Overture to Genoveva (an opera), surging forward but with enough room for lyricism and breathing space, the LSO... |
FREDERICK DELIUS
Delius: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3 (Beecham) (1928, 1938) London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Great Conductors / CD - released 13/Jan/2002 ] In the early months of 1938 Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra set about making the records for the third and final volume to be issued by Columbia Records under the auspices of The Delius Society. |
FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Lucy Crowe (soprano) [ LSO / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2019 ] LSO Live presents Sir John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning Mendelssohn series together in its entirety for the first time. Captured over three seasons during critically acclaimed concerts in the Barbican Hall, this set offers listeners the definitive... |
BEETHOVEN / ROSSINI / VERDI / SUPPE
Solti Overtures London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] This collection of overtures - many of them appearing internationally on Decca CD for the first time - comes from the very start of Georg Solti's recording career. That for Beethoven's Egmont was, in fact, his first recording as conductor, issued as... |
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem) Barry Banks (tenor) London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus & London Philharmonic Choir, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 11/Mar/2013 ] "..the combined LSO and LPO choirs - singing beautifully and bringing out the music's profound sadness - is wonderfully enhanced. Colin Davis fits the work to the conditions with a master hand. Memorable." (Sunday Times) |
CARL MARIA von WEBER
Weber: Der Freischutz Christine Brewer, Sally Matthews, & Simon O'Neill / London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] This is a sincere reading of the work, but sincerity should not be confused with a lack of sophistication. The orchestral textures are pristine, the tempos and colours bracing and plaintive, with faultless work from clarinettist Chris Richards. |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 1-7 / Kullervo, Op. 7 Monica Groop (mezzo), Peter Mattei (baritone) / London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis [ LSO Live / 4 CD Box Set - released 21/Sep/2009 ] "Combined with the innate warmth and pretty much faultless playing of the LSO, it makes for some of the most readily satisfying performances available." BBC Music |