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RACHMANINOV Suites. Symphonic Dances
The Canadian pianist Hélène Mercier has appeared in these pages on and off for more than 20 years, always in...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2015
RACHMANINOV The Bells. Symphonic Dances
This superlative performance of Rachmaninov’s choral symphony The Bells is one of those stratospherically accomplished, ‘cosmic’ ones that Jansons says...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 04/2018
RACHMANINOV The Bells. Symphonic Dances
Compared with the UK and the USA, Germany has in general been slow to embrace the music of Rachmaninov, or...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances
Cologne Gürzenich Orchestra | Dmitrji Kitajenko
The variably transliterated Dmitri Kitaenko, who recorded The Bells for Chandos in the 1990s (2/92), has recently completed a more...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2016
Rachmaninov The Bells. Symphonic Dances.
A distinguished choral conductor, Valery Polyansky's orchestral ventures have often struck me as more dutiful than inspired. As a Rozhdestvensky...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2000
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances (Ashkenazy)
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
This final instalment of Vladimir Ashkenazy’s latest live Rachmaninov retrospective offers more generous playing time than its companion discs but...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW18
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Symphonic Dances Op 45
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin
The 2009 release of the Second Symphony was a reminder of Leonard Slatkin’s sympathy for Rachmaninov’s music and its emotional...
Reviewed by Geoffrey–Norris in issue: 07/2013
Rachmaninov (The) Isle of the Dead; Symphonic Dances
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Wladimir Jurowski
It is apt that the LPO’s principal guest conductor, Vladimir Jurowski, should have a place in the first issue of...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 7/2005
RACHMANINOV Symphonic Dances
London Symphony Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
The first movement of Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances is marked Non allegro, one of those tricky indications that lets you know...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 06/2012
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. Symphonic Dances (Nézet-Séguin)
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
There can be no underestimating the extraordinary legacy surrounding Rachmaninov and Philadelphia. That he composed the Third Symphony and Symphonic...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 02/2021
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