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Rachmaninov Vespers
King's College Choir, Cambridge | Stephen Cleobury
With choirs of many nationalities now including Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil (or Vespers) in their repertories, and half a dozen ‘foreign’...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1999
Rachmaninov Piano Sonatas
Rachmaninov’s First Piano Sonata will never be one of his most popular works. It doesn’t have the thematic memorability of...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 4/1999
Rachmaninov Complete Preludes
Peter Katin | Vassily Primakov
First issued on LP by Unicorn Kanchana and covered by Gramophone in the March 1971 issue, Peter Katin’s complete traversal...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 1/2012
RUBINSTEIN. RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos
Joseph Moog | Nicholas Milton | Rheinland-Pfalz State Philharmonic Orchestra
Anton Rubinstein’s Fourth Piano Concerto is a once-popular showpiece that featured in the repertoires of pianists such as Hofmann and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 06/2012
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4
Antonio Pappano | Leif Ove Andsnes | London Symphony Orchestra
“It’s a sensual pleasure to play,” Leif Ove Andsnes says of Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto in his interview published in...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 13/2010
Rachmaninov Preludes
As one who is somewhat suspicious of bargain-price products, I was interested to compare this 16-year-old Katin set with the...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 10/1987
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Anna Fedorova)
Anna Fedorova | Modestas Pitrenas | St Gallen Symphony Orchestra
Up until recently I had not encountered Anna Fedorova’s playing. But following the Russian invasion of her homeland, her profile...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: AW22
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2. Isle of the Dead (Gourlay)
Andrew Gourlay | Castilla y León Symphony Orchestra
British audiences may best remember Jamaican-born Andrew Gourlay as assistant to Mark Elder at the Hallé or for his conducting...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2019
Cherkassky plays Rachmaninov
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Shura Cherkassky | Yuri Temirkanov
Having for many years played Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, Shura Cherkassky finally chose to record it in his eighties, and...
Reviewed by Tim Parry in issue: 10/1996
RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata SHOSTAKOVICH Viola Sonata arr Cello
Alexei Grynyuk | Leonard Elschenbroich
This is a quite exceptional performance of Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata. There are a good many versions already in the catalogue...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2013
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