Natalie Dessay, Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Piotr Beczala, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra and Mariinsky Chorus – Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2011) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

Natalie Dessay, Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Piotr Beczala, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra and Mariinsky Chorus – Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (2011) [FLAC 24 bit, 96 kHz]

The Mariinsky label’s opera recordings have garnered acclaim and awards from around the world, most recently for Valery Gergiev’s recording of Parsifal released in 2010. For the label’s fifth opera, Gergiev conducts Donizetti’s masterpiece with a magnificent cast led by Natalie Dessay.

Denis Matsuev, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra – Shostakovich & Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2012) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]

Denis Matsuev, Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Orchestra – Shostakovich & Shchedrin: Piano Concertos (2012) [FLAC 24 bit, 48 kHz]

The Mariinsky label was launched in May 2009 with a ground-breaking recording of Shostakovich’s early opera The Nose, which received much praise and many awards. Gergiev continues to work his way through the Shostakovich oeuvre with the Mariinsky and here adds the two piano concertos, plus the fifth piano concerto by the popular Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin.