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COPLAND; RAVEL; STRAVINSKY Symphonic Dances
David Bernard | Park Avenue Chamber Symphony
You have to hand it to New York’s Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their intrepid leader David Bernard for sheer...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2019
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
Rachmaninov Preludes
Rachmaninov's Preludes (always excepting the once ubiquitous C sharp minor piece) seem to be more popular among pianists than among...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1994
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 3 (Korstick)
Dmitry Liss | Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra | Michael Korstick
There is enough explosive playing on this disc to trigger a red-level threat warning. Is it riveting? Intermittently, yes. Does...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2
Anna Vinnitskaya | Krzysztof Urbanski | NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester
The piano and orchestra are on an equal footing throughout Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto and Paganini Rhapsody, meaning that the best performances...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
Mariss Jansons | St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Here is one of the more distinguished Rachmaninov issues of recent years, indubitably the best of the ongoing Mariss Jansons/St...
Reviewed in issue 12/1993
Rachmaninov Aleko
Rachmaninov's graduation exercise opera not surprisingly won the competition for the Moscow Conservatoire's highest honour, the Great Gold Medal, leaving...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1989
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil (Fox. O'Leary)
Joseph Fort | London King's College Choir | Steven Fox | The Clarion Choir
Recordings of Rachmaninov’s Vigil service (‘Vespers’) used to be rare jewels in the choral universe, the domain, with some honourable...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 03/2023
RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH; DENISOV Cello Sonatas
Jonas Vitaud | Victor Julien-Laferrière
Twentieth-century Russia left cellists spoilt for choice: a player who wants to record a sonata disc can choose from bona...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 01/2020
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
Henri Sigfridsson | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Henri Sigfridsson is a 33‑year-old Finnish pianist who first came to prominence as a finalist in the 2003 Geza Anda...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2008
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