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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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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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Jeu de cartes steals the show…This vivacious performance projects the music’s neoclassical lines cleanly, while avoiding sterility. Gergiev’s lightness of touch enables the wit to sparkle, especially... — More…
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Record Review, 10th November 2018, Disc of the Week
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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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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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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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