SACD, Mussorgsky (composer)

Mariss Jansons’s Oslo Philharmonic recording of Musorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition emerged as the lead recommendation some years back, but I’m certain that LSO/Noseda would be the one now — BBC Music Magazine, April 2019 More…

It’s the second half of this disc that surely justifies the epithet ‘Russian spectacular’. I doubt whether you’d hear a more pulsating and brilliantly executed performance of the Lyapunov orchestration... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

For fans of the contemporary virtuoso, this disc is not only stupendously recorded, but a sign that standards these days are extraordinarily high in this area. — BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2008, 4 out of 5 stars More…

[Gergiev's approach] is surprisingly mild with some of the characterisation. 'Gnomus' is agile rather than grotesque; 'The Old Castle' sorrowful (with a nicely mournful saxophone solo) rather... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2015 More…

There's plenty of character, and deft woodwind adept as fast-moving Parisian kids and squabbling chicks. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Carlo Ponti…brings out the Russian-ness of Mussorgsky's inspiration with each of the pictures sharply characterised… The wind solos are specially impressive, as is the horn descant in the "Great... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2009 More…

you sense, right from the opening Promenade of Pictures, that Gerstein has considered everything: textures are rethought, phrasing pondered, while tempi are fluid and oft-changing...I can't... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014 More…

Heard on headphones, Hd-Klassik’s 3D Binaural Series offers a more involving, if not altogether immersive sonic experience. Jörg Endebrock’s arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition... — Choir & Organ, July 2018, 3 out of 5 stars More…