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RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Ticciati)
Berlin German Symphony Orchestra | Robin Ticciati
This is very much in keeping with the impression I have always had of Robin Ticciati’s work: exhaustively prepared, immaculately...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: AW21
Rachmaninov Symphonies
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Vladimir Ashkenazy
If I was slightly disappointed that Ashkenazy's reading of the Second Symphony of Rachmaninov lacked the full thrust of passion...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 6/1983
RACHMANINOV Vespers
Kaspars Putnins | Netherlands Radio Choir
It seems these days as though every self-respecting chamber choir is keen to record Rachmaninov’s monumental a cappella masterpiece as...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 07/2014
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. The Isle of the Dead
Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Leonard Slatkin
Slatkin’s recordings of the Second and Third (7/13) symphonies signalled his sure instinct for the Rachmaninov idiom together with the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2013
RACHMANINOV Piano Trios (Hermitage Piano Trio)
Rachmaninov’s piano trios have been extremely lucky on disc, with dozens of world-class versions (both sonically and interpretatively speaking) from...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW2019
Fiorentino Edition III - Scriabin & Rachmaninov
‘All that glitters is not gold’ – however, in the case of Sergio Fiorentino’s reading of Scriabin’s Fourth Piano Sonata...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 7/1997
RACHMANINOV Symphonies Nos 2 & 3. The Isle of the Dead (Nézet‑Séguin)
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
As with the first instalment of Nézet-Séguin’s symphonic Rachmaninov (the First Symphony and the Symphonic Dances – 2/21), there’s a...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 08/2023
Medtner Piano Concerto No. 2; Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 4
Grant Llewellyn | North Carolina Symphony Orchestra | Yevgeny Sudbin
This richly enterprising programme couples Rachmaninov’s 1926 version of his Fourth Piano Concerto with Medtner’s Second, works which both composers...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2010
RACHMANINOV Piano Trios (Trio Wanderer)
The Trio Wanderer’s new disc, centred around Rachmaninov’s youthful trios, has all the finesse and subtlety that we’ve long associated...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 08/2019
BARBER. RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Jonah Kim)
Sergey Rachmaninov and Samuel Barber were both twenty-somethings when they composed their only sonatas for cello and piano. These are...
Reviewed by Donald Rosenberg in issue: AW20
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