Since you are interested in Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 [recorded live in 2008], here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross, Hob XX/2 (Choral version) Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Kennedy/ Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 11/May/2011 ] "[Jurowski shows] a vital sense of motion in presenting this music - an essential challenge, given its predominant slowness - as well as pointing up the work's intensity and revealing its inner parts." (BBC Music) |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection' Adriana Kucerová (soprano) / Christianne Stotijn (mezzo soprano) / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] "The really big factor here is Jurowski's command of Mahler's very particular and very dramatic way with rubato and the shock of newness that comes from those explicit extremes." Gramophone Top Ten Mahler Symphony Recordings |
BACH / MENDELSSOHN / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Cantata BWV63 'Christen, aetzet diesen Tag' / Von Himmel Hoch / The First Nowell Lisa Milne / Ruxandra Donose / Andrew Staples / Christopher Maltman / London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] "The LPO and Choir provide serious nourishment while opening our ears to the sort of Christmas music that gets overlooked amid the tinsel...Jurowski makes an unlikely but worthy VW champion...All in all, this is a programme combining enterprise and... |
RACHMANINOV
The Isle of the Dead / Symphonic Dances (Rec 2003/4) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live SACD / SACD - released 3/Jul/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "A very personal and expansive Isle of the Dead and a stolid set of Symphonic Dances that picks up momentum and temper only in the final panel" (MusicWeb June 2005) Surround Sound... |
PIOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony, Op. 58 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 1/Dec/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1851-1900) - 'Jurowski conducted [Tchaikovsky's] heart-on-sleeve melodrama with total conviction. Jurowski obviously has a special relationship with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and you... |
HOLST
The Planets, Op. 32 (recorded May 2009) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Brisk tempos and a brilliant, brassy sound distinguish this version of Holst's best-loved work...hats off to the energy and commitment of the LPO players." The Telegraph, 8th October 2010 *** |
BRAHMS
Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] "...Jurowski's approach to Brahms makes exceptional sense. Instead of the familiar cultivation of rich, fat sound as a goal in itself, we have a Brahms that moves fluidly and sings in long lines." Recording of the Month BBC Music Magazine, June 2010... |
SHOSTAKOVICH
Piano Concertos / Piano Quintet Martin Helmchen (piano) / Paul Beniston (trumpet) / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladimir Jurowski [ LPO Live / CD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "Helmchen proves a deft interpreter of both, aided by Jurowski at his most engaging; and the outstanding performance of the weightier Piano Quintet (1940), studio-recorded with members of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, makes this a rare means of... |
RACHMANINOV
The Miserly Knight (complete opera) Sergei Leiferkus / Vladimir Jurowski / Annabel Arden / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Vladmir Jurowski [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 19/Dec/2005 ] G :- '…an inspired piece of programming...Sergei Leiferkus was utterly compelling in the title role...he delivered an appropriately mean performance' - Opera |