Gergiev Mahler Symphonies
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd March 2008
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2008, Editor's Choice
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
-
Mahler: Symphonies 1-9
Elena Mosuc (soprano - Symphony No. 2) & Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo - Symphony No. 2), Anna Larsson (contralto - Symphony No. 3), Laura Claycomb (soprano - Symphony No. 4), Viktoria Yastrebova, Ailish Tynan, Ludmila Dudinova (sopranos - Symphony No. 8), Lilli Paasikivi, Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-sopranos...
-
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
RecommendedLaura Claycomb (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
pacing is almost always emotionally precise, and sonorities rounded and well-judged —
Awards:
-
Building a Library, May 2010, Featured
-
-
Gergiev paces and balances [the opening's] unfolding finely, from halting start via macabre climax to nostalgic fade-out. The ensuing Landler movement duly comes as a shock as Mahler doubtless... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 5th September 2011
-
-
Not since Bernstein have we encountered a Mahler conductor of such idiosyncrasy and fire as Valery Gergiev. …right from the very first vividly characterised sounds of nature, every detail has... —
-
Right from the start, with those dark, dragging rhythms, there's a sense that something special is afoot here. Driven and grittily intense though his direction often is, it isn't ruthless.... —
-
There are no gimmicks in Gergiev's pacing, just clarity and sense in some of the music's most treacherous corners; you do get some nicely pushed/pulled speeds and sculpted details, but they... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
Viktoria Yastrebova, Ailish Tynan, Ludmila Dudinova (sopranos), Lilli Paasikivi, Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo-sopranos), Alexey Markov (baritone), Sergey Semishkur (tenor) & Evgeny Nikitin (bass)
Choir of Eltham College, Choral Arts Society of Washington, London Symphony Chorus & London Symphony...
As a concert venue St Paul's Cathedral's problems remain acute: chief culprit is the building's notorious nine-second reverberation period which gives climaxes earth-shattering power but reduces... —
Purchase product
Downloads
Audio formats guide -
Mahler: Symphony No. 3
Anna Larsson (contralto)
Tiffin Boys Choir, London Symphony Chorus, & London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
The first and third movements climax in a dash to the finishing-line that has one pinned to one's seat. The finale has an immediacy and machismo you may or may not find at odds with its elevated... —
-
Mahler: Symphony No. 2
Elena Mosuc (soprano) & Zlata Bulycheva (mezzo)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Singing without scores, the London Symphony Chorus are on unambiguous great form. Once Gergiev has the bit between his teeth, the tension hardly lets up… —
