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Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
Enrique Bátiz | Jorge Luis Prats | Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra
I first heard the Cuban pianist Jorge Luis Prats on a DG Concours disc (not generally available in the UK)....
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1995
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Isle of the Dead (Wilson)
John Wilson | Sinfonia of London
We might love Rachmaninov for his big tunes but he is also a great master of building epic spans from...
Reviewed by Marina Frolova-Walker in issue: 11/2022
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Owain Arwel Hughes | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Owain Arwel Hughes has made a number of excellent recordings for BIS, mainly of rare Scandinavian works, but here he...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 12/2002
The Young Rachmaninov
It is no secret that EMI have had difficulty locating pianists of high calibre over the years. But in Beate...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1993
Rachmaninov Symphony No 1
Owain Arwel Hughes | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
This third of Owain Arwel Hughes’s recordings of the Rachmaninov symphonies for BIS rounds off the series with a sympathetic...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 10/2003
RACHMANINOV Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Behzod Abduraimov)
Behzod Abduraimov | James Gaffigan | Lucerne Symphony Orchestra
The two masterpieces Rachmaninov composed at his summer mansion in Lucerne in the mid-1930s make an obvious coupling and have...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2020
Rachmaninov Works for Two Pianos
Alexandre Rabinovitch | Martha Argerich
I suppose I asked for it. These performances have all the accent and colour, all the shape and dramatic flair...
Reviewed in issue 9/1992
Rachmaninov Symphony No.3
Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Lorin Maazel | Oleg Caetani
The three Rachmaninov symphonies are strikingly well served on record—the gramophone once again taking the place of the concert hall...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1987
Lyubov Petrova: Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov Songs
Lyubov Petrova | Vladimir Feltsman
With a half-Tchaikovsky, half-Rachmaninov programme, a Russian singer with an Anglo-friendly voice plus an even better pianist, this set is...
Reviewed by David Patrick Stearns in issue: 01/2018
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2 (Dong Hyek Lim)
Alexander Vedernikov | BBC Symphony Orchestra | Dong-Hyek Lim | Martha Argerich
The very opening of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto is a good indicator of how the pianist views the piece and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2019
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