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Shostakovich: The Nose
RecommendedVladislav Sulimsky, Alexei Tanovitski, Tatiana Kravtsova, Andrei Popov, Sergei Semishkur, Gennady Bezzubenkov, Vadim Kravets, Sergei Skorokhodov, Yevgeny Strashko, Elena Vitman & Zhanna Dombrovskaya
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
…Gergiev… wrings superb playing from his band, bringing real panache to the rapid alternations of contrast and grotesquerie and to the brilliantly inventive interludes. Vladislav Sulimsky as... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st June 2009
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Opera Finalist
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Opera, August 2009, Recording of the Month
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Jeu de cartes steals the show…This vivacious performance projects the music’s neoclassical lines cleanly, while avoiding sterility. Gergiev’s lightness of touch enables the wit to sparkle, especially... — More…
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Record Review, 10th November 2018, Disc of the Week
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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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Prokofiev: Symphonies 4, 6 & 7 & Piano Concertos 4 & 5
Alexei Volodin (piano), Sergei Babyan (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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... — More…
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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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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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If your ears can adjust, there's a supremely commanding Rachmaninov No 1 to be savoured here…Matsuev and Gergiev accept with the relish all the invitations to garish humour in Stravinsky's Capriccio…if... — More…
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Rachmaninov & Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Denis Matsuev (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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... — More…
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Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini & Piano Concerto 3
DSD recording, Mariinsky Concert Hall, February 2009
Denis Matsuev (piano)
Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Here, for once, is the level of artistry that the work needs...for all his seemingly endless reserves of technical power [Matsuev] never makes an ugly sound...Gergiev and his Marinsky Orchestra,... — More…
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