György Ligeti said of Koroliov's recording of The Art of Fugue, "If I am to be allowed only one musical work on my desert island, then I should choose Koroliov's Bach, because forsaken, starving, and dying of thirst, I would listen to it right up to my last breath."

Recorded Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, 20 June 2008. From the Bachfest Leipzig 2008.