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Showing 11 - 20 of 21 results
  • 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…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

    Gergiev paints Tchaikovsky’s dream-world in the boldest colours…the Mariinsky Orchestra plays the score with theatrical verve and virtuosity, and the crystal-clear recording really brings out... More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Dsd recording, Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg December 2009 (Les Noces) Feb 2010 (Oedipus Rex)

    Mlada Khudoley (soprano), Olga Savova (mezzo), Alexander Timchenko (tenor), Andrei Serov (bass), Svetlana Smolina, Yulia Zaichkina, Alexander Mogilevsky, Maxim Mogilevsky (pianos), Sergei Semishkur (Oedipus), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Jocasta), Evgeny Nikitin (Creon & Messenger), Mikhail Petrenko...

    Ekaterina Semenchuk...[is] the contralto with the biggest range and lustre since Bernstein's Troyanos, and Sergey Semishkur's Oedipus blends clarion authority with youthful pathos...all the... More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • DSD recording, Marinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg, 24-25/7/2008

    Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

    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... More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • DSD recording, Mariinsky Concert Hall, St Petersburg, July 2008

    Sergei Aleksashkin, Kristina Kapustinskaya & Evgeny Akimov

    Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev

    The Mariinsky's stalwart bass Sergey Aleksashkin is sonorous in the title part, alongside the high tenor Evgeny Akimov in several roles and the dusky-voiced mezzo Kristina Kapustinskaya as the... More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev

    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... More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev (piano), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Leonidas Kavakos (violin)

    No digital booklet included

  • 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,... More…

    This release includes a digital booklet

  • 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…

    This release includes a digital booklet