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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Piano Concerto No. 3
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…
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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…
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Valery Gergiev conducts Stravinsky
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…
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 15
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…
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Shchedrin - The Enchanted Wanderer
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…
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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…
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Russian Classics Vol. 2
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev, Denis Matsuev (piano), Daniil Trifonov (piano), Leonidas Kavakos (violin)
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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…
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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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