***** ‘a thrilling, often revelatory performance, alive to every intense and modernistic gesture. Valery Gergiev finds both great colour and emotional depth in the music … the London Symphony Orchestra on superb form … First-class sound and presenta
Nominated for ICMA Award 2012 Discs of the Month ***** / ***** Fono Forum (Germany) ‘Gergiev conjures up an intoxicatingly languorous soundworld’ Classic FM Magazine (UK) The iTunes version of this album includes an exclusive video performance
Valery Gergiev conductor Outstanding Recording International Record Review ‘magnetic and compelling’ The Scotsman Mahler’s monumental Eighth Symphony is, unusually for a symphony, structured in two-parts. Part I’s exuberant hymn of praise to t
Valery Gergiev conductor Elena Mosuc soprano Zlata Bulycheva mezzo-soprano London Symphony Chorus Disc of the Month ‘powerfully presented by Gergiev and the LSO, with excellent playing from all sections’ Audiophile Audition Mahler’s extraordinar
The Best Albums of 2008 eMusic ‘I’ve never heard the opening Pan Awakes music more marvellously vivid … you won’t hear more brilliant playing than the LSO’s’ Sunday Times Following his principle that “the symphony mus