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In Reply to: RE: Good for her. Gergiev doesn't impress me at all. nt posted by jdaniel@jps.net on April 15, 2017 at 21:54:33
Gergiev is IMO one of the best Shostakovich conductors of recent time..... Although my opinion of him isn't quite so high outside the Russian repertoire.....
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my sample size is very small -- his performance of Berlioz's Romeo & Juliet. But that's poor enough to discourage me from sampling more of him on spec.
Jeremy
. . . and despite the fact that he uses that silly "fluttering fingers" method of conducting, I feel that Gergiev has made some truly outstanding recordings. Indeed, quite a few of those LSO albums are exceptional IMHO, including the Prokofiev Symphonies (not even on hi-rez!), the Ravel, the Debussy, the first three Tchaikovsky symphonies - and then there's quite a bit with other orchestras which is also sensational, including the last three Tchaikovsky symphonies (blu-ray), a couple of the Wagner operas (man, was THAT unexpected!),. . . While one may feel that the sheer number of Gergiev releases could be excessive, his ratio of hits to misses is pretty darn high IMHO.
Of course, I have no opinion at all regarding his Shostakovitch, and jdaniel could be right about his Petrouchka (I haven't heard it), but I think that, yes, we have to give Gergiev his due.
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I didn't realize he was tight with Putin. That does negatively influence me, but not enough to pretend that concert I attended wasn't memorable. Actually, I was more impressed by the orchestra than him - the woodwind players' *sounds* knocked me out among other things.
Haven't heard him conduct anything other than Russian music.
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