2022 Opus Klassik Awards Nominee

“There is much to commend in Noseda’s account of this most extraordinary symphony – and I speak as one whose recent and exhaustive explorations of it on BBC Radio 3 have only served to intensify my admiration…”

“… [Noseda] brings a tremendous sense of strength and purpose to this once controversial work.”

“… This is a highly inspired, exciting and monumental work heard here in a most worthy performance.”

Performance ****      Sonics (Multichannel) ****

“… Noseda’s performance opens with a welcome drive and authority that immediately captures the listener’s attention…. Noseda is more lyrical at first, but with the LSO on blistering form he builds the movement’s central section to an appropriately shattering climax. The two central movements benefit from Noseda’s scrupulous care with articulation and dynamics, and where some other versions struggle both emotionally and structurally that is not the case here, thanks to the excellence of the playing, especially from the woodwind and strings…”

****

“… Of the many recordings that the ‘Leningrad’ has enjoyed over the years, that by the London Symphony Orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda is one of the most dramatic and exhilarating, with the conductor having a masterly grasp of the compositional three line that has been difficult for some musicians to sustain. What’s more, a piece like this demands the most wide-ranging of simple audio surround sound, and that is precisely what it receives here. A very desirable issue.”

“… this recording stands quite apart from others on the market, but perhaps for the better. Noseda has managed to question several presumptions about this monumental symphony in ways that are deserving of close listening and further reflection.”

Orchestral Choice

Performance *****      Recording ****

“An impressive Leningrad from the LSO. This live recording of Shostakovich 7 is vivid and exceptional,,, The LSO’s principal wind players excel I their many solos …”

“… The orchestra impresses as a whole and with the quality of its soloists…” ****