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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
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 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 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 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
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 '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 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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