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Rachmaninov Piano concerto 3
Jorge Bolet | London Symphony Orchestra
Though always immersed in Rachmaninov's music, I have found it difficult to come to terms with this interpretation, and perhaps...
Reviewed in issue 9/1983
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2; Russian Songs, Op 41
Russian State Symphonic Cappella | Russian State Symphony Orchestra | Valéry Polyansky
Polyansky’s broad approach in the Second Symphony might suggest a kinship with Previn, rather than the taut and tense Pletnev,...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1998
Rachmaninov Vespers
St Petersburg Cappella | Vladislav Chernushenko
Rachmaninov's work is really called All-Night Vigil, and comprises not only Vespers but Matins and Prime. It is many Westerners'...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 5/1993
Rachmaninov Symphony No.2
Orchestre de Paris | Semyon Bychkov
I'll come clean: the last thing I expected from this source was a front-running Rachmaninov Second. I was wrong. If...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 9/1991
Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov
Reviewing Ashkenazy's most recent Rachmaninov Third (with Haitink and the Concertgebouw, Decca 417 239-2DH, 11/86) I made passing mention of...
Reviewed in issue 10/1988
Rachmaninov Piano Works
As we're told in the accompanying booklet Kathryn Stott's Rachmaninov recital ''ranges freely from his first to his last piano...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 3/1988
Rachmaninov Piano Trios
The ''sweet, nostalgic torment'', as Pasternak calls it, of Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio, written in memory of Nocholas Rubinstein, finds a...
Reviewed in issue 10/1984
Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra
Bryden Thomson | Howard Shelley | Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Everything Howard Shelley does here is intelligent, shapely and sensitive, and a good deal of careful thought has gone into...
Reviewed in issue 4/1991
Rachmaninov/Scriabin Piano Works
EMI Eminence have generously transferred the entire contents of Gavrilov's 1985 Rachmaninov recital disc and every item bar one from...
Reviewed by Michael Stewart in issue: 12/1995
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos. Paganini Rhapsody (Yuja Wang)
Gustavo Dudamel | Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra | Yuja Wang
Make no mistake, this is a classy release. Hardly surprising that, given the artists involved, but I headline the cliché...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2023
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