SACD, Mariinsky (label)

Jeu de cartes steals the show…This vivacious performance projects the music’s neoclassical lines cleanly, while avoiding sterility. Gergiev’s lightness of touch enables the wit to sparkle, especially... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Third Piano Concerto certainly packs a mighty punch through Denis Matsuev's brilliantly athletic playing...Yet the work's lyrical elements seem less involving. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

If your ears can adjust, there's a supremely commanding Rachmaninov No 1 to be savoured here…Matsuev and Gergiev accept with the relish all the invitations to garish humour in Stravinsky's Capriccio…if... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2015 More…

The Rachmaninov offers one of the finest performances of the first movement available: remarkable detail, superbly sculpted, technically magisterial. [Prokofiev] There is a reason we don’t hear... — International Piano, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Alexei Volodin (in the Fourth) and Sergei Babayan (in the Fifth) approach the fast movements with mercurial wit and dazzling clarity of fingerwork…Gergiev and the Mariinsky accompany with razor-sharp... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…