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Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
The packaging tells its own story: the booklet opens out into a mini-poster of the tousled and bespectacled maestro conducting...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2003
VLADIGEROV Bulgarian Suite. Symphonic Bulgarian Dances
Nayden Todorov | Rousse Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
I do hope that this fine new recording will mean that Pancho Vladigerov’s music becomes better known. There are recordings,...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 04/2020
Rachmaninov preludes
Firstly a note on the contents of this album: Brautigam includes the Preclude in E flat minor of 1887, which...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 8/1987
RACHMANINOV; PROKOFIEV Cello Sonatas
No sooner had I commented on the unusual Prokofiev/Rachmaninov coupling in my Moser/Korobeinikov review (in the February issue) than this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2017
RACHMANINOV All-Night Vigil
Andrew Shepstone | Joyful Company of Singers | Lorna Perry | Peter Broadbent
Having been thoroughly bowled over by the Latvian Radio Choir’s luxurious 2011 recording of this choral masterpiece – a Gramophone...
Reviewed by Malcolm Riley in issue: 04/2014
Rachmaninov Preludes and Etudes
Edmund Battersby's approach to Rachmaninov is as sympathetic and intelligent as his booklet-notes suggest it will be. He has the...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
Rachmaninov Etudes tableaux
A direct comparison between Ian Hobson and Ashkenazy in the Op. 39 studies is by no means entirely one-sided. This...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
Rachmaninov Trios
Rachmaninov's D minor Elegiac Trio has drawn a number of recordings, most recently that by the Copenhagen Trio on Kontrapunkt....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1995
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
Alexander Lazarev | Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninov composed his E minor Symphony in Dresden but echt Russian conductors and orchestras have been making all the running...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Rachmaninov Piano Works
BBC National Orchestra of Wales | John Lill | Tadaaki Otaka
Vol. 3 of John Lill’s Rachmaninov cycle sandwiches the Corelli Variations between the Fourth Concerto and the Paganini Rhapsody –...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1996
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