Browse: Mariinsky (label)

The Rachmaninov offers one of the finest performances of the first movement available: remarkable detail, superbly sculpted, technically magisterial. [Prokofiev] There is a reason we don’t hear... — International Piano, July 2018, 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…

It fizzes with energy … I enjoyed this hugely. — CD Review, 11th April 2015 More…

[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... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

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... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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…

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…