Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead & Symphonic Dances

LPO–0004
© 2005 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
℗ 2005 London Philharmonic Orchestra Ltd
The Isle of the Dead recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on 8 December 2004. Symphonic Dances recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall on 29 October 2003
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd
Total playing time 60:17
Released May 2005

CD: Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead & Symphonic Dances

Sergei Rachmaninoff
The Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Pieter Schoeman leader (The Isle of the Dead)
Boris Garlitsky leader (Symphonic Dances)

These live recordings capture some of the first fruits of Vladimir Jurowski’s celebrated relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, an ensemble through which he has championed the music of Rachmaninov both at the Royal Festival Hall and at Glyndebourne. These accounts of two contrasting but equally gripping orchestral works mirror the freshness and immediacy of the Russian musician’s relationship with this great British orchestra.

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[Jurowsky] has an innate capacity for exposing the salient features of a score without distorting balance or over-emphasising trivial detail.

Sunday Telegraph

In these dedicated performances both works cast a powerful spell.

BBC Music

This disc, drawn from concerts in the Royal Festival Hall in 2003 and 2004, sees them at their most dramatic and focused, in repertoire that Jurowsky can call his own.