Valéry Gergiev
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Few can rival Valery Gergiev's pedigree in Prokofiev's music, and he is palpably aware of how this score works in the theatre. His pacing of events is masterly, with plenty of verve and passion…... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th January 2010
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Building a Library, February 2010, Modern Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2010, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Disc of the Year & Orchestral Award Winner
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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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Special offer. Strauss, R: Elektra
RecommendedJeanne-Michèle Charbonnet (Elektra), Angela Denoke (Chrysothemis), Dame Felicity Palmer (Clytemnestra), Matthias Goerne (Orestes), Ian Storey (Aegisthus)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
[Gergiev] conveys passions and tensions with compelling, sometimes deafening power...[Charbonnet is] strongly involved without, thankfully, overplaying the weirdness...[Palmer's Klytaemnestra... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th July 2012
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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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Scriabin: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedEkaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) & Alexander Timchenko (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
there’s a great sense of freedom in this music that Gergiev manages to create ... Gergiev’s volatility really works in this Scriabin. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Special offer. Prokofiev - The Complete Symphonies
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Gergiev's performances here are never less than compelling and - given their live origin - are remarkable for the clarity of textures and the always purposefully shaped phrasing of even minor... —
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Orchestral
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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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Valery Gergiev is one of the most charismatic maestros on the circuit and his Mahler series in London has aroused passionately divergent responses. If you prize the textural elucidation that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd March 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
RecommendedAnne Schwanewilms (soprano) & Olga Borodina (mezzo)
Münchner Philharmoniker & Munich Philharmonic Choir, Valery Gergiev
It reminds me a little of Karajan at his paradoxical best/worst: magnificently convincing in its artistic overview, rather less persuasive when it comes to what Henry James called the ‘sharpness... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th September 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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