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Rachmaninov Vespers
Howard Arman | Klaudia Zeiner | Leipzig Radio Chorus | Mikhail Agafonov
It is always questionable whether to include a cantor in performances of the AllNight Vigil‚ more so than usual in...
Reviewed in issue 10/2002
Rachmaninov Symphonies Nos 1-3
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Ashkenazy has made few more distinguished discs as conductor than these Rachmaninov symphony recordings of the early 1980s. They are...
Reviewed in issue 7/1996
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
Charles Dutoit | Philadelphia Orchestra
I sometimes wonder: was it Rachmaninov who created the Philadelphia sound, or the Philadelphia who created the Rachmaninov sound? No...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1992
Rachmaninov Symphony No 1; Isle of the Dead
Evgeni Svetlanov | USSR Symphony Orchestra
How good to be able to welcome a super-budget reissue of Evgeni Svetlanov's incandescent 1966 recording with the USSR SO...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 2/2007
Sudbin plays Medtner and Rachmaninov
This is a wondrous disc. Yevgeny Sudbin has not been alone in championing the piano music of Nikolay Medtner: in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 02/2016
RACHMANINOV Music for 2 Pianos
Charles Owen | Katya Apekisheva
I began with Suite No 2 for no other reason than I felt like listening to something robust and bracing....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2018
RACHMANINOV; SHCHEDRIN Piano Concertos
Denis Matsuev | Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Pianists in the great Russian tradition were, and in many instances still are, renowned for taking no prisoners. That’s the...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2015
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Liss. Wilson)
Dmitry Liss | John Wilson | Sinfonia of London | Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
John Wilson’s new Rachmaninov album with the Sinfonia of London opens with a monstrous crash in the first few seconds,...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 05/2023
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Antonenko)
In recent years there has been almost an embarrassment of fine recordings of Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, better (if erroneously) known...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2024
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. Piano Concerto No 1
Lan Shui | Singapore Symphony Orchestra | Yevgeny Sudbin
It was a daring move on the 22-year-old Rachmaninov’s part to write a symphony in 1895, with Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique of...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2013
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