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Songs and Dances of Death
Dmitri Hvorostovsky | Kirov Opera Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
There are few operas I would rather see revived than Rubinstein's The Demon (first given in 1875). The three scenes...
Reviewed by Alan Blyth in issue: 5/1994
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
Jacek Kaspszyk | Philharmonia Orchestra
Kaspszyk's fine, long-breathed account of the Second Symphony ((CD) 1054-2, 4/90) was just what the composer ordered—eternal melodic lines and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1991
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
(Simón) Bolívar Symphony Orchestra, Venezuela | Gustavo Dudamel | Yuja Wang
‘The most dazzlingly, uncannily gifted pianist in the concert world today joins forces with “magician-maestro” Gustavo Dudamel,’ trumpet the critics,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2014
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Jacek Kaspszyk | Lorin Maazel | Philharmonia Orchestra
The Sanderling performance is a bitter disappointment—and it pains me to say so, such is my admiration for his work....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1990
Rachmaninov Songs
Eleonora Bekova | Sergei Larin
Chandos have been faithful champions of Rachmaninov’s songs above all with their three-volume complete collection using four singers, Joan Rodgers,...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1997
Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux
I have admired Gordon Fergus-Thompson's playing since I first heard him in a broadcast some six years ago. Then he...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1992
Rachmaninov Piano Works
By the time this appears in print Shelley will have played all Rachmaninov's original solo piano works in five London...
Reviewed in issue 11/1983
Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky Orchestral works
Martha Argerich | Nicholas Economou
The Symphonic Dances, Rachmaninov's last work, were written for Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra between September 22nd and October...
Reviewed by rgolding in issue: 8/1987
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 1. The Isle of the Dead (Jurowski)
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Jurowski
The Isle of the Dead might be regarded as the makeweight here but it has long been a Jurowski speciality...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2019
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra | Tadaaki Otaka
No disrespect to the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, but Tadaaki Otaka is turning over a respectable profit from modest assets....
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 4/1993
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