After a few deliberations I picked the Prokofiev’s Complete Symphonies box with Valery Gergiev conducting his new London Symphony Orchestra. It looks like London sound got much warmer and friendlier under Gergiev. I also heard a lot of positive buzz about the Gergiev’s Prokofiev, so let see how it goes.

I need to mention that London Symphony Orchestra has own label the LSO LIVE

http://lso.co.uk/buyrecordings/

Where some of the examples of new London sound reflected. The sad parts that the idiots who release the recordings made them in SACD format. I do not play SACD but the CD layer that those disk have is absolutely horrible. So, the cretins pretty much vandalized the LSO 2007-2009 recordings. The good part about the Prokofiev’s Complete Symphonies box is that it has no idiotic SACD layer and I presume it was a pure PCM recording.

I did not get the box yet but I think it might be interesting. I am not a huge fun of Prokofiev’s Symphonies and LSO generally but I was promised that this time it might be different.