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Influences
Classical, jazz, film, electronica, Mahler, Beethoven, Strauss, Bruckner, Elgar, Schubert, James MacMillan, Janacek, Britten, Dvorak... just about anyone really!
Sounds Like
The LSO sounds like the LSO - although you could argue we sound quite like some other orchestras as well! We are particularly known for our brass sound, thanks to the great Maurice Murphy, trumpet extraordinaire.
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Take part in the YouTube Symphony Orchestra!
The LSO is a major partner in this new collaborative online orchestra. Go to www.youtube.com/symphony to find out more and take part. The film below is a taster:
Watch our videos of interviews with LSO players, conductors and broadcasters talking about the music and themes in the 2008/09 concert season:
Émigré
The LSO's Principal Double Bassist Rinat Ibragimov (from Russia) and Second Violinist David Ballesteros (from Tenerife), two of the LSO's 'Émigrés', tell us about their own journeys, physically and emotionally, from their homelands to London. lso.co.uk/emigre
Love Brahms?
What is it about Brahms that can polarise people? LSO players and Conductor Laureate André Previn tell us why they just can't get enough of him, despite Tchaikovsky, Britten and Dukas thinking otherwise. lso.co.uk/lovebrahms
Last Words
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson profiles the final works of Sibelius, Tchaikovsky and Strauss and why so many composers left their best work til last. lso.co.uk/lastwords
Heirs & Rebels
Sir Colin Davis and broadcaster Rob Cowan talk about British music in the 1930s and profile Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony, Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and the influence of Elgar. lso.co.uk/heirsandrebels
Exotiques
Writer and broadcaster Stephen Johnson talks about the influence of the east on Debussy and in particular in the classic Prelude de l'apres midi d'un faune, performed in the film by the LSO under Valery Gergiev. lso.co.uk/exotiques
2008/09 Artist Portrait: Nikolaj Znaider
Violinist Nikolaj Znaider outlines the concertos he is playing with the LSO in May 2009, all linked by the city of Vienna: the concertos of Schoenberg, Korngold and Brahms. lso.co.uk/znaider
The London Symphony Orchestra is one of the world’s top orchestras. Our home is at the Barbican in the City of London, where we perform over 80 concerts every year, and at LSO St Luke’s, a converted 18th-century church just up the road which is the base for our LSO Discovery community and education programme. We also run a record label, LSO Live. Each year we tour to several different countries, and return to some regularly where we have residencies.
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yes, Mravinsky was also a personal friend of Shostakovich. That's one of the reasons why I prefer this recording. ;-) But Rostropovich's interpretation is really powerful. I know a little bit his complete Shostakovich symphony cycle - a few were performed by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C. and a few by the LSO. :-) Very sensitive, colorful and yeah: powerful.
Russian orchestras are pretty unbeatable in this case, but your orchestra are unbeatable in british music. ;-) How often I admire the Vaughan Williams' symphonies and Holst with the furious THE PLANETS? Wooooah! :-) You can be proud of a magical sound - also in the russian "western" music like Tchaikovsky.
Well, the Eighth is my favourite symphony and also LSO with Rostropovich will landing in my player very often. :-)
I can get a statement of the Eleventh symphony if you want. But I have to wait until I get it.
today, I've get a recording of your orchestra with Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, conducted by Rostropovich. I was impressed of the crystal clear sound and the performance was great! Rostropovich is musical between "beautiful sound" and an orchestral explosion. It had made fun instead of Previn's interpretation of the Eighth Symphony. Not a great performance in my opinion. But really: Rostropovich with the LSO is one of the top performances of Shostakovich's masterwork.
But in my opinion not the best. ;-) Mravinsky's recording with the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra in 1982 is my favourite. I think he can get more the russian soul in the musical heart because of a russian orchestra and the near of Shostakovich's intention. An alternate is Kondrashin's recording with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. What a firework! :-)
But the Eighth Symphony with Rostropovich/LSO has make me hungry of another symphony experiences of Shostakovich/Rostropovich/LSO. It's time to buy the Eleventh Symphony.
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