Tag: London Symphony Orchestra
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Jerome Moross: Symphony No. 1
Jerome Moross achieved fame for his memorable Hollywood film scores (most notably his music for “The Big Country”) and theatre works including “The Golden Apple” – and also wrote concert music with an unmistakably American sound. Alto Records returns to the catalogue conductor JoAnn Falletta’s pioneering world recordings of Moross’s major concert works, including his…
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Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet Suites Nos. 1 & 2, Love of Three Oranges Suites
Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet and comic opera The Love of Three Oranges spawned several concert suites that remain popular to this day. Alto is pleased to release great recordings of suites from both works recorded during the Golden Age of Stereo, conducted by two masters of orchestral color and drama, Antal Doráti and Stanisław…
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Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5
“Vaughan Williams’ Fourth Symphony receives a terrific reading… [the] first movement full of teeming energy and the recorded sound adds to the impact. … An expertly judged slow movement offers refined playing but they and Davis make the climaxes ardent. The Scherzo is really incisive… the finale explodes into life and the LSO brass is…
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Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915, Symphony No. 1, Essays Nos. 1 & 2, Night Flight & Music for a Scene from Shelley
“This reissue from several Unicorn [LPs] is very welcome not least for Measham’s wonderful reading of the First Symphony, which deservedly won 3 stars in the Penguin Guide. It reminds us how well Measham empathised with Barber’s music. Night Flight, the slow movement of the Second Symphony, uncannily captures the inky-black sky and atmosphere of…
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Endre Wolf Plays Bach and Brahms Concertos
Endre Wolf was one of the most important violin soloist to emerge in the years following World War II. He had a significant career as a soloist and pedagogue in England and Scandinavia, and made regular concert and radio appearances through the 1980s, but did not visit the recording studio frequently. Most of his commercial…
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21 Great Anthems & Choruses
Three out of three stars “[Hickox leads] fine digital collections sung with fervour and discipline… zestfully infectious… shaped beautifully… brass resonantly sonorous… fully in the demonstration bracket.” – Penguin Guide The title says it all! Alto Records presents twenty-one essential choral showpieces, performed by the London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra and some of the finest…
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David Oistrakh – Violin Masterclass
10CD deluxe clamshell box including 24 Concertos, two Sonatas (Devil’s Trill etc), Scottish Fantasia, and many short Encores
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Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ – Sir Colin Davis, Tenebrae, LSO
Financial Times’ Disc of the Year; New York Times’ CDs of the Year “Performance: ***** Recording: ***** ‘Beuron, probably today’s finest lyric tenor, gives the performance an essential idiomatic core in his narration … [Tenebrae are] dramatically alert and glowing as stained glass, the angelic messages skin-pricklingly ethereal.” (BBC Music Magazine) “[Sir Colin’s] revisitation of…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 7 – Gergiev, LSO
[BBC Music Magazine’s Disc of the Month]: ‘Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there’s a sense that something special is afoot here … Gergiev charts the whole labyrinthine course with thrilling assurance [whilst] the virtuosity and sensitivity of the L.S.O – is a continual exhilarating delight.’ ’ [The Times]: “This is a…
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Elgar Violin Concerto, Piano Concerto, Polonia, Civic Fanfare, Crown of India
“(Concerto): Hickox unfurls the opening tutti richly, nobley, purposefully … no lack of brilliance, the fireworks are dashingly, tastefully despatched … sudden flashes of Paganinian dazzle” (others): “The slow movement of the Piano Concerto … with a sympathetic performance from Margaret Fingerhut. Douglas Bostock is persuasive with his Elgarian rubato, which is what matters most.”…
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Berlioz Requiem (Grande Messe des Morts), Op. 5 – Davis, LSO (Live)
Grammy Nomination 2014; Gramophone Magazine’s Editor’s Choice; MusicWeb International’s Recording of the Month: ‘[Davis’] last-ever Berlioz recording, demonstrates yet again his unique empathy with and understanding of Berlioz’s music as well as his authority in conducting it.’ Classical Source: ‘Those two concerts in Saint Paul’s were colossal events. I attended the first and have rarely…
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique – Davis, LSO
“Berlioz’s greatest interpreter of modern times recorded it three times, but this most recent version is the most gripping and satisfying, deftly treading a fine line between self-revelation and self-indulgence. The volcanic outpourings of feeling are as intense as they should be, yet in the quieter moments – Davis achieves a wonderfully expressive pianissimo, in…
