Despite being a live recording -- or, more accurately, one assembled from several concerts -- this 2005 CD of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana is almost as polished and well-produced as a studio recording. Sir Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic are incredibly tight and coordinated with the choirs and vocal soloists, and everything holds together ...
It's not clear exactly what the "live" component is in this disc from the London Symphony Orchestra's LSO Live series. The Beethoven Mass in C major, Op. 86, and the "Prisoners' Chorus" from Fidelio are specified as having been recorded live on two different occasions at London's Barbican concert hall, but if there was an audience any traces of ...
Colin Davis leads the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a solid performance of The Creation in the LSO Live series. The sound of the SACD is clean for a live recording, except for a slight rustling when the chorus stands and sits. The soloists are nicely foregrounded so that their contributions are always clear and distinct. The sound of the ...
For the dedicated Britten fan, this disc by Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra will be compulsory listening. It contains only the second recording of the English modernist's Double Concerto for Violin and Viola, a work the 18-year-old composer wrote under the influence of Walton's Viola Concerto but one he never scored and ...
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