Valéry Gergiev
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Special offer. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Few can rival Valery Gergiev's pedigree in Prokofiev's music, and he is palpably aware of how this score works in the theatre. His pacing of events is masterly, with plenty of verve and passion…... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th January 2010
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Building a Library, February 2010, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
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Gergiev highlights the way the ideas flow thick and fast, but… he never forgets to let the music breath when the grander manner takes over. —
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Building a Library, December 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2019, Recommended Recording
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This is certainly a golden age collection from Trifonov, and it’s admirable that these two discs are always more about the music than about him...If I were to choose a compendium of Russian... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th November 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Instrumentalist of the Year
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Special offer. Strauss, R: Elektra
RecommendedJeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Elektra), Angela Denoke (Chrysothemis), Dame Felicity Palmer (Clytemnestra), Matthias Goerne (Orestes), Ian Storey (Aegisthus)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
[Gergiev] conveys passions and tensions with compelling, sometimes deafening power...[Charbonnet is] strongly involved without, thankfully, overplaying the weirdness...[Palmer's Klytaemnestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2012
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Special offer. Scriabin: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedEkaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) & Alexander Timchenko (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
there’s a great sense of freedom in this music that Gergiev manages to create ... Gergiev’s volatility really works in this Scriabin. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Prokofiev - The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Gergiev's performances here are never less than compelling and - given their live origin - are remarkable for the clarity of textures and the always purposefully shaped phrasing of even minor... —
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Orchestral
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Paganini Rhapsody
Lang Lang (piano)
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
Lang Lang is a marvel, his ease of virtuosity astonishing, his stage presence magnetic. —
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Miaskovsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedVadim Repin (violin)
Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
It's the Myaskovsky that really makes this disc a 'must-have'. His Violin Concerto was premiered by David Oistrakh in Leningrad in 1939. As with Tchaikovsky's Concerto, the opening tutti plays... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Strauss has always been at the core of the Bavarian orchestra's repertoire, and his heroes swagger and strive with such engaging exuberance on this recording, made last September on the orchestra's... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2017
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[Gergiev] bring[s] out Rimsky's crystalline solo textures, such as the passages for solo cello, horn and woodwinds in the first movement. And if tempos are slow in the first three movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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