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Testimonials
Some comments about our orchestra:
"...warm, lively and spruce performances."
The Times
"...a wonderful air of serenity from the orchestra ...a wealth of virtuosic display, the orchestra responding with an air of freshness and spontaneity."
The Strad
"...crisply articulated ...a full-bloodied and impressive performance, the brass were in fine form and the whole band playing as a well-knit ensemble"
Musical Opinion
"Great music, a magical orchestra - irresistible"
Joe Kahn (audience member, London, UK)
"We really did enjoy the LSCO concert. Please pass on our thanks to all the performers for an inspired evening."
John Kimble (audience member, Dartmouth, UK)
"I've just a most unusual experience. I was running a program for conductors for the London Master Classes at the Royal Academy and we hired an orchestra. That would usually mean a bunch of tired, irritated pros periodically rolling their eyes as a frustrated teacher puts his inexperienced conductors through their paces. But the orchestra we hired was the London Soloists. So what we got was a crackerjack band of highly motivated, passionate, engaged individuals who threw themselves into the venture as if their careers were at stake. This is a group of exceptional artists who not only play magnificently but who care deeply about the art of music, and through their collective will enliven every bar they play. This is like fresh air, mountain views, white-water rafting. With classical music in hands like these we should have no worries."
Benjamin Zander (Conductor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra)
"I recently attended the Brandenburg 5 concert held at St Martin-in-the-Fields and was totally taken by this group ...the audience was so spellbound that they didn't cough or sneeze ONCE (in February!). Thank you so much for the pleasure of this concert - [London Soloists] were so uplifting."
Lili Glast (audience member, USA)
"...All four soloists featured in the impressive account of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with an especially expressive third movement, not far short of heavenly inspiration, bathed in the glow of the audience's rapt attention. Cheers from the sizeable audience were well deserved."
Arietta (Journal of the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe)
"The concert ended with a sparkling performance ...demonstrating the freshness and enthusiasm that characterizes their playing."
Musical Opinion
"There was something highly moving about the performance of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony at the Cadogan Hall. What pleased throughout was the depth of sound present: the orchestra is small, yet every instrument so willingly slotted into and darted around the texture that great sonic landscapes materialised before the eyes. Every section rose to great heights of virtuosity, with the woodwind noticeably superb. Not perfect, perhaps, but exciting.
...everything gelled as the volume increased and, as the trotting rhythms were thrust out with metallic beef, I felt as though I was watching one of the great European orchestras. It was a pleasurable evening.
Taken from an article by Dave Paxton on musicomh.com
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