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Rachmaninov Vespers
Jaroslav Brych | Prague Philharmonic Choir
The Prague Philharmonic choir join over a dozen others who have recorded Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil, a work once thought the...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/2003
RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY Romances (Piotr Beczala)
Helmut Deutsch | Piotr Beczala
There are not many tenors who have recorded discs of Russian romances, so this new Pentatone release of Tchaikovsky and...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW23
RACHMANINOV Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31
Berlin Radio Chorus | Nicolas Fink
Less well known than his setting of the All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Rachmaninov’s earlier Liturgy of St John Chrysostom – it...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 01/2016
Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux
Rachmaninov's Etudes-tableaux, Opp. 33 and 39 stand with the equivalent Scriabin and Szymanowski pieces at the end of the nineteenth-century...
Reviewed in issue 11/1984
Rachmaninov Piano Works
''Recorded in April, 1985'' so the label informs us of this recital. But better late than never. Even today the...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 10/1988
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4 (Original Versions)
Alexander Ghindin | Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Once in a while it’s important for us all to be reminded that even great composers don’t have masterpieces handed...
Reviewed in issue 10/2001
Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux
Like many pianists emerging from a major competition success, Ovchinikov seems to have a taste for cycles of virtuoso studies....
Reviewed in issue 5/1991
Rachmaninov Preludes
This is Dame Moura Lympany's third recording of the Rachmaninov Preludes and it is in many ways her finest. For...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1994
Rachmaninov Songs, Vol. 1
Alexandre Naoumenko | Howard Shelley | Joan Rodgers | Maria Popescu | Sergei Leiferkus
This first volume in Chandos’s three-disc anthology of all Rachmaninov’s songs is laid out for four voices, an intelligent plan...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1996
Rachmaninov Piano Works
I didn't look for any biographical note about Helene Grimaud before listening to the Sonata No. 2, but after only...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1986
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