Browse: Valery Gergiev Shostakovich Symphonies (series)

a very impressive interpretation of the most harrowing and questioning of Shostakovich's 'war symphonies'...Gergiev is especially convincing in his shaping of the large-scale architecture of... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Supported by a vivid SACD recording, Gergiev delivers a compelling account of the Second. His vast experience as an opera conductor pays real dividends in maximising the theatricality of the... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, 4 out of 5 stars/1 out of 5 stars More…

Following hard on the heels of Mikhail Pletnev's fine SACD version of Shostakovich's 15th is this impressively recorded version of the same work made in the sumptuous acoustics of the new Mariinsky... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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... — Financial Times, 12th July 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

such is the poignancy and sensitivity with which Gergiev shapes the world-weary melodies that I was immediately won over...[in the Finale] Gergiev exerts a much tauter control over proceedings,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…