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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 & Violin Concerto No. 1
RecommendedLeonidas Kavakos (violin)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
They capture not only the joyful irreverence of the movement but the sense of danger lurking beneath the surface…the solo wind playing is excellent throughout…brilliantly played and vividly recorded. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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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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If your ears can adjust, there's a supremely commanding Rachmaninov No 1 to be savoured here…Matsuev and Gergiev accept with the relish all the invitations to garish humour in Stravinsky's Capriccio…if... — 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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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 10
dsd recording, Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg, 2009-2010
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
He treats [the Third] like a film score, making the most of graphically illustrative passages...and inspiring the massed ranks of the Mariinsky Chorus to sing their hearts out in the stirring... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 3
Denis Matsuev (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
The Third Piano Concerto certainly packs a mighty punch through Denis Matsuev's brilliantly athletic playing...Yet the work's lyrical elements seem less involving. — More…
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This studio recording by Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra of St Petersburg makes as strong a case for the music’s unwieldy sprawl as you will hear today...Gergiev’s ongoing Shostakovich cycle... — More…
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Prokofiev: Symphonies 4, 6 & 7 & Piano Concertos 4 & 5
Alexei Volodin (piano), Sergei Babyan (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Alexei Volodin (in the Fourth) and Sergei Babayan (in the Fifth) approach the fast movements with mercurial wit and dazzling clarity of fingerwork…Gergiev and the Mariinsky accompany with razor-sharp... — More…
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Wagner: Das Rheingold
René Pape (Wotan), Nikolai Putilin (Alberich), Stephan Rügamer (Loge), Ekaterina Gubanova (Fricka), Viktoria Yastrebova (Freia), Zlata Bulycheva (Erda), Andrei Popov (Mime), Evgeny Nikitin (Fafner), Mikhail Petrenko (Fafner), Sergei Semishkur (Froh), Alexei Markov (Donner), Zhanna Dombrovskaya (Woglinde),...
[Gergiev] draws plenty of vivid drama and glowing colour from the Mariinsky players, particularly the uniquely silken but powerful brass...Mikhail Petrenko and Evgeny Nikitin [make a] rich-voiced... — More…
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