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RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1, Op 28. Variations on a Theme of Chopin, Op 22
Rachmaninov’s First Sonata and Variations on a Theme of Chopin provide a welcome change from the more familiar Second Sonata...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 03/2013
Franck Violin Sonata; Rachmaninov Cello Sonata
Alexandre Gurning | Gautier Capuçon | Lilya Zilberstein | Renaud Capuçon
As recently as July there appeared a coupling linking Rachmaninov’s cello sonata to Franck’s violin sonata, but in that case...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 9/2003
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2 STRAUSS Burleske
Jac van Steen | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | Valerie Tryon
Valerie Tryon’s second disc for Somm once more distils her very recognisable virtues. Whether in Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss or Dohnányi,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/2014
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2 RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherezade
Denis Matsuev | St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Yuri Temirkanov
One of the particular pleasures of this filmed concert is watching the avuncular maestro Yuri Temirkanov direct a group of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2014
Rachmaninov Orchestral Works
BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra | Tadaaki Otaka
Otaka has already done wonders for the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra and here is the evidence. But in choosing this...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 5/1992
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Khatia Buniatishvili | Paavo Järvi
Imagine if you’d never heard a Rachmaninov concerto in your life. Listening to this new recording of Nos 2 and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2017
MEDTNER Sonata Romantica RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 2
Nicolas Medtner | Steven Osborne
Steven Osborne is on a bit of a Russian odyssey at the moment. Now it’s the turn of two great...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2014
Rachmaninov Piano Works
Rachmaninov once complained to his friend Alfred Swan about how much superfluous music there was in his early works, with...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 7/1994
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Kirov Opera Orchestra | Mariss Jansons | St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Kurt Sanderling and the Leningrad Philharmonic recorded this work for DG in the 1950s (11/56—nla); Mikhail Pletnev and his Russian...
Reviewed in issue 8/1994
RACHMANINOV Piano Trios. Cello Sonata
Andrey Korobeinikov | Pavel Gomziakov | Tatiana Samouil
This trio of Russian musicians certainly have this music flowing through their veins, but is that enough in a crowded...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 02/2023
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