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Rachmaninov Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
King's College Choir, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury
Having recorded the much better known All-Night Vigil (‘Vespers’) in 1999, King’s here turn to Rachmaninov’s earlier setting of the...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 6/2004
Rachmaninov Preludes
Curiously, each of the new recordings sounds like a criticism of the other; yet neither can be recommended as a...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
Rachmaninov Works of Piano Duet
Hilary Macnamara | Howard Shelley
Howard Shelley and Hilary Macnamara have here selected the finest of Rachmaninov's four-hand piano music, leaving the prospect of a...
Reviewed in issue 2/1991
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos 2 & 3
Czech National Symphony Orchestra | Heiko Mathias Förster
Writing intriguingly in this disc’s accompanying note, Jed Distler tells us of a phantom presence behind Rachmaninov’s performance of his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 08/2015
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2
Another ‘Rach 2’ dropping on to the doormat makes the heart rather sink. Except…the pianist is the wonderfully gifted Alexandre...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2016
GERSHWIN; RACHMANINOV Rhapsody (Martin James Bartlett)
Joshua Weilerstein | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Martin James Bartlett
I did not think Martin James Bartlett’s debut album for Warner Classics (6/19) showed him in the best possible light....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
BARBER; RACHMANINOV 'Muse' (Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason)
A music sequence that is especially close to the hearts of these prodigiously gifted siblings, the Barber Sonata penned by...
Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 11/2021
Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux, Op 39; Corelli Variations
Alexander Melnikov | Elena Brilova
This intriguing coupling reminds you that Rachmaninov reflected many of his most intimate passions in his songs. And for Alexander...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2008
Rachmaninov Piano Works
With several fine complete sets of the Preludes and Etudes-tableaux on the market there is room for an intelligently planned...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994
RACHMANINOV; SIBELIUS Songs (Imbrailo & Hogarth)
Alisdair Hogarth | Jacques Imbrailo
Making their song debut on Linn records, Jacques Imbrailo and Alisdair Hogarth offer a deeply satisfying two-part recital. Sibelius takes...
Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 09/2018
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