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Rachmaninov/Kalinnikov Orchestral Works
London Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
My admiration for Litton grows. He spirits us here through the three ages of Rachmaninov the symphonist, with exceptional flair...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1990
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1. Moments musicaux (Steven Osborne)
The First Sonata is seldom encountered in performance, due to its half-hour length and the myriad interpretative challenges it poses....
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 06/2022
RACHMANINOV Romances
Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Ivari Ilja
Though Dmitri Hvorostovsky revisits repertoire he recorded in his 1991 ‘Russian Romances’ disc in the heady months following his sensational...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 04/2012
Rachmaninov Aleko
With the appearance of Neeme Jarvi’s three-disc set of the Rachmaninov operas, starrily cast and smoothly engineered, several older Russian...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2001
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2. Études-tableaux Op 33
Boris Giltburg | Carlos Miguel Prieto | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Boris Giltburg certainly has something fresh to say in Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto, that well-worn, much-loved masterpiece, and in his new Naxos...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017
RACHMANINOV; SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Sonatas (Carmine Miranda)
Carmine Miranda | Robert Marler
While there are many fine recordings of Shostakovich’s and Rachmaninov’s cello sonatas, not many have them coupled together, even in...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2023
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas Nos 1 & 2
A strong case can be made for either of Rachmaninov’s two versions of the Second Piano Sonata. In the right...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW/2011
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
Charles Mackerras | Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Both these works offer interpreters plenty of scope for dazzling orchestral colour, instrumental display and energizing dynamism. Mackerras isn't among...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 7/1994
RACHMANINOV; CHOPIN Cello Sonatas
Alisa Weilerstein | Inon Barnatan
It’s a bold musician who dares to duet with Alisa Weilerstein. So much is out of the question: complacency, clichés,...
Reviewed by Hannah Nepil in issue: 11/2015
BEETHOVEN; RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas (Pogorelich)
I’ve rarely encountered such an ugly-sounding piano release. While the engineering admirably captures Ivo Pogorelich’s wide dynamic scope, his sonority...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2019
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