Sir Colin Davis

Best Classical CDs of the Year The Guardian, Symphony No 1

Best Classical CDs of the Year Sunday Telegraph, Symphony No 1

Diapason D'or Diapason, Symphony No 1

Editor's Choice 'No other orchestra is better equipped than the LSO to perform Elgar's music ... a magnificent performance' Gramophone, Symphony No 1

Best Classical CDs of the Year Sunday Times, Symphony No 2

Artistic Quality 10 Sound Quality 10 ClassicsToday.com, Symphony No 2

Top Ten Discs of the Decade BBC Music Magazine, Symphony No 3

Best Classical CDs of the Year The Guardian, Symphony No 3

'The greatest living Elgarian.There is a breadth and structural completeness about it that does justice to Elgar's vision ... sustained tonally and technically as only the LSO can' Financial Times, Symphony No 1

Best Classical CDs of the Year The Guardian, Symphony No 2

'a radical version that sweeps away preconceived notionsabout the work.The headiness of Davis's approach is matched by the lushness of the LSO's playing and a sumptuous recording' The Guardian, Symphony No 2

'this performance is further evidence of Sir Colin Davis's intense rapport with Elgar's music ... a very moving performance, magnificently played' Sunday Telegraph, Symphony No 2

'remarkable, above all for its depth of feeling' Sunday Times, Symphony No 2

Best Classical CDs of the Year Daily Telegraph, Symphony No 3

'Having attended the first of the two Barbican concerts from which the recording emanates, I wondered whether Sir Colin's extraordinarily powerful account of the slow movement in particular would move me as much as it did in the concert hall. The answer is an emphatic yes. Not only do Davis and his excellent band distil a remarkable level of concentration in this nobly defiant, dark hued essay, they also locate a heartache and intimacy that touch to the very marrow' Gramophone, Symphony No 3

'there's an inner intensity that makes passage after passage come to life as never before ... Most of all, there's a sense that Davis believes utterly in the music' BBC Music Magazine, Symphony No 3

'the symphony's first great recording' The Independent, Symphony No 3