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, Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
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Special offer. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Christopher Purves (baritone), Gábor Bretz (bass)
London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Guildhall School Singers, Tiffin Children's Chorus, Tiffin Girls' Choir, Tiffin Boys' Choir, Sir Simon Rattle
The work and its style – especially the virtuosity and panache required – have clearly remained in the orchestra’s collective memory…Overall it’s a tightly organised and carefully paced achievement... — More…
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Record Review, 23rd March 2019, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9
RecommendedTwyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo soprano), John Mac Master (tenor) & Gerald Finley (bass), Gordan Nikolitch (violin), Tim Hugh (cello) & Lars Vogt (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Bernard Haitink
a blazing performance of the Seventh Symphony that reaches a superbly disciplined and frenzied conclusion — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Berlioz: Harold en Italie & La mort de Cléopâtre
Antoine Tamestit (viola), Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
This Harold in Italy takes a while to get going...Gergiev's pacing of the opening in its use of dynamics...Still, he brings out details in the score, and the third movement Serenade finds both... — More…
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Special offer. Berlioz Odyssey
The Complete Sir Colin Davis Recordings
London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Davis was seemingly Berlioz’s disciple on earth, and this was the glorious late flowering of his love for the composer…Les Troyens crackles with a theatricality that outshines even the pioneering... — More…Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Best Collection
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Special offer. Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
Yann Beuron (narrator/centurion), Karen Cargill (Marie), William Dazeley (Joseph), Matthew Rose (Herod) & Peter Rose (Father/Polydorus)
London Symphony Orchestra & Tenebrae Choir, Sir Colin Davis
Yet having already recorded to excellent versions of this intimate, gently luminous masterpiece… what more can Davis add? Not improvement, perhaps, but a different approach. …here his reading... — More…
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Twyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo), John MacMaster (tenor) & Gerald Finley (bass)
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
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Special offer. Verdi: Requiem
Christine Brewer, Karen Cargill, Stuart Neill & John Relyea
London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
…Sir Colin conducts the Requiem with a judicious mix of fire and meditative calm; tempi never drag nor are they, in the reflective passages, metronome-quick. The work of the LSO Chorus is first-rate,... — More…
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Special offer. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Twyla Robinson (soprano), Karen Cargill (mezzo), John MacMaster (tenor) & Gerald Finley (bass)
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
…the slow third movement… moves along at a pace few conductors would have employed fifty years ago. Yet it never sounds hurried, and the dramatic brass interruptions towards its close have... — More…
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Special offer. LSO at the Movies
Tim Hugh (cello), Timothy Jones, Barry Tuckwell (horn), Twyla Robinson, Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), John Mac Master, Gerald Finley (bass-baritone), Tenebrae Choir, Simon Halsey
London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sir Colin Davis, Barry Wordsworth, Jaime Martín, Bernard Haitink,...
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