Gramophone Magazine
March 2018
DVD of the Month

Misha Didyk, Alexey Markov, Vladimir Stoyanov, Svetlana Aksenova, Larissa Diadkova

Chorus of Dutch National Opera, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons

"It’s certainly wacky. But it’s followed through with rigorous brilliance, musically all is superb: this is the equal of Mariss Jansons’s first-rate Bavarian CD recording, with some of the same cast including Misha Didyk, currently the Hermann of choice. The Concertgebouw relishes the dark hues and the amazing woodwind scoring; the chorus, well-marshalled with the men as multiple Tchaikovskys, is superb." - BBC Music Magazine May 2018