Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra
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Gergiev highlights the way the ideas flow thick and fast, but… he never forgets to let the music breath when the grander manner takes over. —
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Building a Library, December 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2019, Recommended Recording
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This is certainly a golden age collection from Trifonov, and it’s admirable that these two discs are always more about the music than about him...If I were to choose a compendium of Russian... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th November 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik, 2021, Instrumentalist of the Year
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Miaskovsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedVadim Repin (violin)
Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
It's the Myaskovsky that really makes this disc a 'must-have'. His Violin Concerto was premiered by David Oistrakh in Leningrad in 1939. As with Tchaikovsky's Concerto, the opening tutti plays... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Paganini Rhapsody
Lang Lang (piano)
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
Lang Lang is a marvel, his ease of virtuosity astonishing, his stage presence magnetic. —
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[Gergiev] bring[s] out Rimsky's crystalline solo textures, such as the passages for solo cello, horn and woodwinds in the first movement. And if tempos are slow in the first three movements,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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Anna Netrebko - Russian Album
Anna Netrebko, Dmitry Voropaev, Vladimir Moroz
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
Anna Netrebko frames her recital with the two great heroines of Russian 19th- and 20th- century opera: Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace. …Netrebko... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Recital
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2006, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Prokofiev: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 5
Alexander Toradze (piano)
Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
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Leningrad Ballet Music
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Edward Chivzhel, Mariinsky (Kirov) Orchestra, Yuri Gamaley
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Special offer. Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky & Scythian Suite
Olga Borodina (mezzo)
Kirov Orchestra & Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
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Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes
RecommendedEkaterina Kondaurova (Firebird), Ilya Kuznetsov (Ivan Tsarevich), Marianna Pavlova (The Princess) & Vladimir Ponomarev (Kachtcheï the Immortal), Alexandra Iosifidi (The Chosen One), Elena Bazhenova (300-Year-Old Woman) & Vladimir Ponomarev (Shaman)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Ballet,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th July 2009
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, DVD of the Year
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