The Mariinsky Theatre's new version of 'The Nose' bring Shostakovich's difficult piece spectacularly to life. This sharply observed two-CD set from the Mariinsky Theatre transcends the snags, harnessing the score's avant-garde idiom together with it's thrusts of mordant Gogolian satire, it's cunning musical characterization and whirlwind fantasy to reveal the opera in all it's bizarre brilliance. - Telegraph (London)