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This release bodes well for the Mahler cycle announced by the LSO under Valery Gergiev. The performance it most resembles is Solti’s Chicago recording on
Decca’s promotional copy notwithstanding, it’s The Sleeping Beauty and not Swan Lake that is “Tchaikovsky’s Greatest Ballet”. The composer’s first balletic effort draws liberally on
Considered by many to be Rimsky-Korsakov’s greatest opera, recordings and performances of The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (as
It’s rather amazing just how many bad Prokofiev symphony cycles there have been; happily this isn’t one of them. The absolute nadir remains Ozawa/Berlin on
If you want a performance of Tchaikovsky’s first truly great symphony that goes for the jugular to the exclusion of all other qualities, this powerful
What on earth is Philips up to? Valery Gergiev’s Kirov Pathétique is one of the best modern recordings, and it comes with a considerable bonus
Valery Gergiev and the Kirov Orchestra emphasize the dark and dramatic side of Tchaikovsky in this stunning new recording of the Pathetique. The long-held pauses
These performances, when they aren’t truly boring, are just bad. Take the opening of the Second Concerto: it should be played in tempo, and evenly,
Valery Gergiev’s Shostakovich Fourth has a textural clarity that reveals many rarely-heard details, such as the strings’ shimmering Ravelian downward scale in the first movement’s
Why, one wonders, did any label find it necessary or desirable to release yet another recording of no special distinction containg these two warhorse concertos?
