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RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos No 4
Noriko Ogawa’s reading of the First Concerto reminded me of Malcolm Binns’s old recording with Sir Alexander Gibson. Here, the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2012
RACHMANINOV Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (Excerpts. Putniņš)
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir | Kaspars Putnins | Maria Valdmaa | Olari Viikholm | Raul Mikson
While Rachmaninov’s setting of the (Eucharistic) Liturgy is not as well known as his Vigil (the so-called Vespers) – with...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 05/2022
Rachmaninov Aleko
Pushkin's poem of gipsy infidelity, revenge and banishment surely deserved to become a great opera. The teenage Shostakovich had a...
Reviewed in issue 10/1994
Rachmaninov Preludes
Having completed his concerto cycle for Nimbus (10/94, 8/96 and 8/97) John Lill continues with the solo piano music, a...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1998
Rachmaninov Choral Works
A coupling of Rachmaninov's Spring cantata with The bells is a happy idea and these are enjoyably communicative, if not...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1992
Rachmaninov Piano Trios
The shade of Tchaikovsky haunts both these works. In the first, there are turns of phrase from his Trio, and...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1994
Rachmaninov Symphony 3; The Rock
(Royal) Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra | Paavo Berglund
In addition to those versions listed above, I made the mistake of returning to Ormandy's CBS account with the Philadelphia...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 6/1989
Rachmaninov Songs, Vol. 2
Alexandre Naoumenko | Howard Shelley | Joan Rodgers | Maria Popescu | Sergei Leiferkus
Two figures in particular haunt the second volume of Chandos’s survey of Rachmaninov’s songs – Feodor Chaliapin and Rachmaninov himself....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1996
Rachmaninov Preludes & Melodies
With this intricate and enterprising recital the wondrously gifted Alessio Bax fulfils, in his own words, a long-cherished dream. Here...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 13/2011
Rachmaninov: Symphonies
Dmitri Kitaenko | Moscow Symphony Orchestra
These are modern digital recordings made in Moscow in 1984 and on the evidence of this set the Moscow Philharmonic...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 2/1989
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