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, Sally Matthews (soprano)
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Special offer. Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50
RecommendedSally Matthews (Peri), Mark Padmore (narrator), Kate Royal (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Andrew Staples (tenor), Florian Boesch (bass), Soloists from Guildhall School (Quartet)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Sir Simon Rattle
Vivid detail and clear choral textures come over quite stunningly on both formats, but the Blu-ray has the edge...Sally Matthews doesn't quite catch the ethereal quality Gardiner's Barbara Bonney... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2015
2 SACDs + Blu-ray Audio
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Special offer. Weber: Der Freischütz
RecommendedChristine Brewer (Agathe), Sally Matthews (Ännchen), Lars Woldt (Kaspar), Simon O’Neill (Max), Stephan Loges (Ottokar/Zamiel), Martin Snell (Kuno), Gidon Saks (A Hermit), Marcus Farnsworth (Kilian), Lucy Hall (Bridesmaids)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
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,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th May 2013
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Special offer. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
Andrew Kennedy (Prologue, Peter Quint), Sally Matthews (Governess), Michael Clayton-Jolly (Miles), Lucy Hall (Flora), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Grose) & Katherine Broderick (Miss Jessel)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Farnes
Britten's opera makes its usual harrowing impact...Broderick's darker-toned Miss Jessel contrasts well with [Matthews]...while Catherine Wyn-Rogers's Mrs Grose is faultlessly secure and vivid.... — More…
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Special offer. Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72
Christine Brewer (Leonore), John MacMaster (Florestan), Daniel Borowski (Don Fernando), Juha Uusitalo (Don Pizarro), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Rocco), Sally Matthews (Marzelline), Andrew Kennedy (Jaquino)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
…Colin Davis's conducting of the London Symphony Orchestra and the vocal forces is so impressive that it ranks with the greatest accounts I have ever heard of this work… Christine Brewer is... — More…
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Special offer. Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Sally Matthews (soprano) & Christopher Maltman (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
The dark, veiled string at the opening (Brahms with a slight Russian Orthodox accent?) are very impressive. So too is the sense of the first movement rising and falling steadily like a great... — More…
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Special offer. Britten: Peter Grimes
Glenn Winslade (Peter Grimes), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Anthony Michaels-Moore (Balstrode), Jill Grove (Auntie), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), James Rutherford (Swallow), Christopher Gillett (Bob Boles), Nathan Gunn (Ned Keene)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Sir Colin Davis
3 CDs
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Special offer. Haydn: The Creation
(sung in German)
Sally Matthews, Ian Bostridge & Dietrich Henschel
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
…Colin Davis's… response to the actual sound of the piece is beautifully managed throughout, with Haydn's sense of wonder coming vividly alive. The LSO is on unimpeachable form, with many thrilling... — More…
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Special offer. Beethoven - Mass in C
Sally Matthews (soprano), Sara Mingardo (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Alastair Miles (bass)
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
..Davis's tempos are generally broad yet incisive… The quartet of soloists… is glorious, the Benedictus particularly well judged. — More…
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Special offer. Szymanowski: Symphonies Nos 3 & 4 & Stabat Mater
Toby Spence (tenor), Denis Matsuev (piano), Sally Matthews (soprano), Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) & Kostas Smoriginas (baritone)
London Symphony Orchestra, with London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Matsuev has his feet...firmly planted on terra firma, the edgier writing displaying more of a kinship with Bartok until the gorgeous return to lushness in the second movement suggests an almost... — More…
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Special offer. LSO on the Big Stage
Barry Tuckwell (horn), Gregory Kunde (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Simon O'Neill (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Lars Woldt, Christine Brewer (soprano), Laura Claycomb (soprano), Peter Coleman-Wright (baritone), Darren Jeffery (bass-baritone), John...
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