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RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Dances from Aleko
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
Early Rachmaninov meets mature Rachmaninov with the two dances and intermezzo from his student opera Aleko of 1892 and the...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 12/2012
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 3; Symphonic Dances
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra | Pavel Kogan
Hard to believe performances as vibrant, soulful and involving as these have never previously made it onto CD (they were...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 1/2009
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 2; Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
Barry Wordsworth | Israela Margalit | London Symphony Orchestra
According to the publicity‚ the Black Box iClassics range combines worldclass recording with worldwide content. The discs may play like...
Reviewed in issue 9/2001
Rachmaninov (The) Bells; Symphonic Dances
Enthusiasts in the know have long waxed lyrical about Kyrill Kondrashin’s blistering 1963 recording of Rachmaninov’s swansong and now it’s...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 9/2006
Rachmaninov The Bells; Symphonic Dances
“Stunning digital transfers” says the back of the insert-note. Well, they don’t sound particularly distinguished to me. The picture is...
Reviewed in issue 10/1996
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances; Isle of the Dead; (The) Rock
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Vasily Petrenko
This first disc in the RLPO’s new series of Rachmaninov expediently brings together three works from different eras of his...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 5/2010
Rachmaninov Isle of the Dead; Symphonic Dances
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Good as the Maazel/DG version of the Symphonic Dances is, with brilliant playing lightly and transparently recorded, the Ashkenazy on...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 2/1985
Rachmaninov Symphony No 3; Symphonic Dances
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman
Barely represented on disc a generation ago, Rachmaninov's final orchestral works are firm favourites these days often coupled together as...
Reviewed in issue 1/1995
Rachmaninov Symphonic Dances; Suites for 2 Pianos
Somewhere between the understatement of Shelley and Macnamara and the excitability of Argerich and Rabinovich lies a happy middleground for...
Reviewed in issue 5/2002
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3
London Symphony Orchestra | Orchestre de Paris | Paavo Järvi | Valery Gergiev
Rachmaninov’s Third Symphony is the shared work in these otherwise dissimilar offerings. Valery Gergiev’s view is dark and stormy, his...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: AW2015
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