LSO's wining CD, plus how not to play Mahler

London Symphony Orchestra's label, LSO Live, is an inspiration for other orchestras, but does more autonomy over releases mean too much of a good thing?On 12 April, the London Symphony Orchestra's LSO Live label picked up the Disc of the Year gong at the BBC Music Magazine awards, for Valery Gergiev's recording of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. For a supposedly moribund industry, the success of LSO Live over the last decade, both commercially and artistically, signals the possibilities for other...

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