LSO Live 25th Anniversary - Up to 40% off
Until 23rd October, we are offering up to 40% off LSO Live titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, Blu-Ray & DVD, & downloads.
LSO Live 2024, Valéry Gergiev (conductor)
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Special offer. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Few can rival Valery Gergiev's pedigree in Prokofiev's music, and he is palpably aware of how this score works in the theatre. His pacing of events is masterly, with plenty of verve and passion…... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th January 2010
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Building a Library, February 2010, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
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Special offer. Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
RecommendedElena Zhidkova (Judith) & Sir Willard White (Bluebeard)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
…Gergiev and his superlative orchestral forces and vocal soloists, supported by magnificent sound quality, present the enigmatic piece with great power, leaving us, as adequate performances... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th August 2009
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, Opera Choice
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Opera, December 2009, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Scriabin: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedEkaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) & Alexander Timchenko (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
there’s a great sense of freedom in this music that Gergiev manages to create ... Gergiev’s volatility really works in this Scriabin. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Elektra
RecommendedJeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Elektra), Angela Denoke (Chrysothemis), Dame Felicity Palmer (Clytemnestra), Matthias Goerne (Orestes), Ian Storey (Aegisthus)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
[Gergiev] conveys passions and tensions with compelling, sometimes deafening power...[Charbonnet is] strongly involved without, thankfully, overplaying the weirdness...[Palmer's Klytaemnestra... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2012
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Special offer. Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17
RecommendedOlga Borodina (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Evgeny Nikitin (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus & Guildhall School Singers, Valery Gergiev
Gergiev, in this live account, inclines towards operatic fire and pace, occasionally headlong, but with a clarity and hushed, atmospheric pianissimo finely captured by the spacious SACD recording. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2016
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Gergiev paces and balances [the opening's] unfolding finely, from halting start via macabre climax to nostalgic fade-out. The ensuing Landler movement duly comes as a shock as Mahler doubtless... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th September 2011
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedLaura Claycomb (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
pacing is almost always emotionally precise, and sonorities rounded and well-judged — More…
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Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
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Special offer. Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
SACD + DVD Video
Original price ($11.00) Reduced price $8.80Downloads
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The LSO plays, as always, splendidly for Valery Gergiev. The general excellence and detail of their performance is remarkable. — More…
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 6 in A minor 'Tragic'
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Valery Gergiev is one of the most charismatic maestros on the circuit and his Mahler series in London has aroused passionately divergent responses. If you prize the textural elucidation that... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd March 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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