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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedDenis Matsuev (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
An energetic reading, robust, demonstrative, flashy…Let us bow before the purely technical qualties of Matsuev, who swallows the deadliest features with speed and sometimes staggering accuracy. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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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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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Night on Bare Mountain, Songs and Dances of Death
Ferruccio Furlanetto (bass)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
[Gergiev's approach] is surprisingly mild with some of the characterisation. 'Gnomus' is agile rather than grotesque; 'The Old Castle' sorrowful (with a nicely mournful saxophone solo) rather... — More…
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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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Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture, Moscow Cantata, etc.
RecommendedMariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg, 15-20 February 2009
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Slavonic March, the most individual of all the pieces, gets the liveliest, quirkiest performance and the best sound. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th October 2009
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The enticement lies with the Fifth Symphony, which receives an overwhelming reading. Gergiev approaches the score with the abandon and Romantic fervor of Stokowski, Abendroth, and Koussevitzky,... — More…
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Verdi: Attila
Ildar Abdrazakov (Attila), Vladislav Sulimsky (Ezio), Anna Markarova (Odabella), Sergei Skorokhodov (Foresto), Mikhail Makarov (Uldino) & Timur Abdikeyev (Leone)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Arturo Gama (director)
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His special blend of attributes is on display here, not least his technical ease, exquisite control and rich resource of colour. In the Tchaikovsky [Concerto], Trifonov's playing ignites when... — More…
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