Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos 1, 2 and 3 – review

LSO/Gergiev(LSO Live, two CDs)Over the last few years, Valery Gergiev's releases on the London Symphony Orchestra's own label have centred upon his cycle of the Mahler symphonies, with rather variable results. But back in the Russian repertory that he knows so well, and to which he responds more vividly than perhaps any other conductor alive today, Gergiev is once again irresistible. He has already recorded Tchaikovsky's Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies with his other orchestra, from the Marii...

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