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Gergiev has the sensibility to put on the pressure and to foster flexibility as the natural contours of the music demand...[He] has a feel for the romantic urgency of the music as well as its... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2010 More…

Singing without scores, the London Symphony Chorus are on unambiguous great form. Once Gergiev has the bit between his teeth, the tension hardly lets up… — Gramophone Magazine, March 2009 More…

Brahms and Gergiev could hardly be described as natural bedfellows but there were moments in the Third Symphony where the illicitness of unnatural bedfellows generated a certain frisson. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2014 More…

The three main works on offer plus the Prokofiev encore come across with clarity and balance … the performances themselves all show considerable boldness of style … the combination of largeness... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2017, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gergiev has plenty of insights...The playing for the London Symphony Orchestra is, as so often, exceptionally refined, yet very much alive and full of colour...Under Gergiev, there is an exceptional... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Among the slowest of accounts [of the Prélude], it briefly seems as if the flute's intoxicating gestures have left the orchestra in a torpor - though Gergiev's reluctance to break the spell is... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The dark, veiled string at the opening (Brahms with a slight Russian Orthodox accent?) are very impressive. So too is the sense of the first movement rising and falling steadily like a great... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there's a sense that something special is afoot here. Driven and grittily intense though his direction often is, it isn't ruthless.... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…