Prokofiev

Excellent performances, but the Regietheater production, with many cuts and changes to the libretto too, might undermine its artistic worth for many

A new disc from a new star in the conducting firmament, featuring new music – and a couple of old warhorses [LD]

(Déjà Review) You must have this very idiomatic performance and production if you have any liking for Prokofiev’s music [RB]

(Déjà Review) Classic performances in sound that is still demonstration-worthy [TH]

Askenase captured in exceptional form in all these performances [RCh]

An exciting performance of a major Prokofiev symphony captured live [DHa]

This disc is intelligently programmed, delightfully played and in good sound [GPu]

A great version of one of Prokofiev’s finest works from the LSO and Noseda [PH]

A fascinating survey of Idil Biret’s solo Prokofiev [DHa]

An interesting and attractive coupling [PH]

A specialist but intriguing release showing a great conductor working, as it were, off the beaten track [JQ]

A fine disc, beautifully programmed and with a superb performance of the Poulenc sonata [GPu]

A formidable Soviet conductor with legendary technique directs three London orchestras in music from Russia and France [PH]

Pianophiles will warmly embrace this latest addition to the Meloclassic roster [SG]

If you’re looking for Ivan the Terrible with narration—and in English—this is the recording to get [RC]

Outstanding live performances by the great Russian conductor with three different London orchestras [GPJ]

An absolute feast of piano recordings that greatly expands our knowledge of a pianist who has been very undeservedly forgotten [RCh]

(Déjà Review) Well-played and recommended, especially for the Alkan [DBl]

(Déjà Review) An absolutely tremendous disc, from all angles [CC]

A fine selection of little known works by well-known and obscure composers each a masterpiece or a forgotten gem [JF]

A set to treasure [SG]

A massive celebratory David Oistrakh box features strikingly good remasterings of his HMV legacy and a vast array of live and broadcast material [JW]

A worthy release of outstanding playing [SG]

This is one of the finest Prokofiev piano discs issued in recent times [RCu]