‘An essential recommendation’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

‘Exceptional finesse … mirrored in beautilully natural and refined sound’ (BBC Record Review)

‘These masterly performances can, I think, lay claim to being the finest, certainly the most individual, that we have yet heard on disc’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘Elegant and scintillating’ (Gramophone)

‘Nothing less than a revelation’ (The Guardian)

‘Readings of a true keyboard aristocrat … exceptional finesse … mirrored in beautifully natural and refined sound’ (BBC Record Review)

‘These masterly performances can, I think, lay claim to being the finest, certainly the most individual, that we have yet heard on disc’ (Hi-Fi News)

‘A compellingly individual interpreter … an essential recommendation’ (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs)

'How beautifully blended and responsive [the LSO] are under Gergiev's direction … there is much to enjoy here, not least an orchestra that is at the very top of its game under its charismatic conductor' (International Record Review)

'Valery Gergiev is one of the most exciting conductors recording today. His previous Rachmaninoff Second Symphony for LSO Live was a knockout, and both of these symphonic works will likely take first place [of multichannel options]' (Audiophile Audition, USA)

'This Rachmaninov finds the London Symphony Orchestra warm and irresistibly propulsive … Gergiev has a feel for the romantic urgency of the music as well as its lyrical impulse and the LSO responds as though its life depended upon it' (Gramophone)

'Breathtakingly beautiful string playing. I greedily anticipate the release of the other symphonies in due course' (International Record Review)