Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra
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Shostakovich: The Nose
RecommendedVladislav Sulimsky, Alexei Tanovitski, Tatiana Kravtsova, Andrei Popov, Sergei Semishkur, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Vadim Kravets, Sergei Skorokhodov, Yevgeny Strashko, Elena Vitman & Zhanna Dombrovskaya
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
[Gergiev] wrings superb playing from his band, bringing real panache to the rapid alternations of contrast and grotesquerie and to the brilliantly inventive interludes. Vladislav Sulimsky as... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st June 2009
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Opera Finalist
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Opera, August 2009, Recording of the Month
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Massenet: Don Quichotte
RecommendedFerruccio Furlanetto (Don Quichotte), Anna Kiknadze (Dulcinée) & Andrei Serov (Sancho Panza)
Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers Ensemble & Mariinsky Orchestra & Soloists, Valery Gergiev
Furlanetto's basso cantante makes a fine compromise [between Ghiaurov and van Dam] - rich but smooth in fluent French - and Valery Gergiev whips up the score more vigorously than either predecessor...Gergiev... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th March 2012
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2012, Opera Choice
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Wagner: Parsifal
RecommendedGary Lehman (Parsifal), Violeta Urmana (Kundry), René Pape (Gurnemanz), Evgeny Nikitin (Amfortas), Alexei Tano Vitski (Titurel) & Nikolai Putilin (Klingsor)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
What really distinguishes this […] is Gergiev. His reading is vivid and luminous, generally expansive but with fluidly shifting tempos, unashamedly guilty of theatrical excitement. Yet he evokes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2010
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2010, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Lucia), Piotr Beczala (Edgardo), Vladislav Sulimsky (Enrico), Dmitry Voropaev (Arturo), Ilya Bannik (Raimondo), Zhanna Dombrovskaya (Alisa) & Sergei Skorokhodov (Normanno)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Everything Dessay does is lovely, but there is a lack of the desperation which should pervade the role...[Beczala is] actually more moving and Italianate than Dessay. Still, as post-Maria Callas... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st August 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Anna Netrebko - Russian Album
Anna Netrebko, Dmitry Voropaev, Vladimir Moroz
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
Anna Netrebko frames her recital with the two great heroines of Russian 19th- and 20th- century opera: Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace. …Netrebko... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame
RecommendedMaria Guleghina (Lisa), Gegam Grigorian (Hermann), Irina Arkhipova (Countess), Vladimir Chernov (Yeletsky), Nikolai Putilin (Tomsky), Olga Borodina (Polina), Vladimir Solodovnikov (Chekalinsky), Sergei Alexashkin (Surin), Evgeni Boitsov (Chaplitsky), Nikolai Gassiev (Major-Domo), Gennadi Bezzubenkov...
There are major problems with all the current sets of The Queen of Spades, but Valery Gergiev, one of the outstanding Tchaikovskians of the day, here coaxes from a thoroughly Western-sounding... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2011, First choice (single set)
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Wagner: Die Walküre
RecommendedNina Stemme (Brünnhilde), René Pape (Wotan), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Anja Kampe (Sieglinde), Ekaterina Gubanova (Fricka), Mikhail Petrenko (Hunding)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
The result, in superb sound, is revelatory...[Kampe] gives Sieglinde both lyrical beauty and narrative power, well matched by Jonas Kaufmann's Siegmund...[Pape] turns out to be the finest [Wotan]... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th February 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2013, Opera Choice
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Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel
RecommendedSerge Leiferkus, Galina Gorchakova, Evgenia Perlasova-Verkovich, Mikhail Kit, Larissa Dyadkova, Evgeni Boitsov, Vladimir Gauzin, Yuri Laptev, Valery Lebed
Kirov Chorus and Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Opera
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Rimsky Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
(complete opera)
Marina Shaguch, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Evgeny Akimov, Olga Borodina
Kirov Opera & Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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