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Rachmaninov Francesca di Rimini
Blame has always been laid at the door of Modest Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov’s librettist, for the failure of Francesca da Rimini...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2008
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Harold Farberman | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
If I might first right a wrong. Rozhdestvensky's IMP Pickwick account of the Second Symphony inadvertently slipped through my net...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 8/1990
Rachmaninov Choral Works
Charles Dutoit's new disc with the Philadelphia Orchestra conveniently couples all three of Rachmaninov's choral works with orchestra. The recording...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 8/1994
Rachmaninov Vespers
National Academic Choir of Ukraine 'Dumka' | Yevhen Savchuck
This is a first-rate bargain price recording of Rachmaninov’s sublime music (more correctly known as the ‘Vigil’ rather than ‘Vespers’)....
Reviewed in issue 8/2001
Rachmaninov Songs
Nina Rautio brings to this recital, as she did to the volume she contributed to Conifer’s Tchaikovsky cycle (1/97), much...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 13/1997
RACHMANINOV; ARENSKY; SHOSTAKOVICH; MUSSORGSKY Piano Trios
Arnon Erez | Hagai Shaham | Raphael Wallfisch
Ever since Glinka’s Trio pathétique of 1832, Russian composers have associated the piano trio with elegy, among them Arensky for...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 05/2015
Rachmaninov Symphony No.2/Vocalise
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra | David Zinman | Sylvia McNair
Some pieces are consistently lucky on disc—the Rachmaninov Second is one. And so we add Zinman to an increasingly distinguished...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 10/1992
Rachmaninov Piano Sonatas 1 & 2
Alexis Weissenberg, like Howard Shelley on Hyperion, couples the First Sonata and the revised version of the Second. There's little...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 4/1990
Rachmaninov Piano concerto 3
Jorge Bolet | London Symphony Orchestra
Now 71, Jorge Bolet has had time to cultivate self-control. In the heat of excitement he neither surges ahead nor...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 12/1985
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3
Bruno-Leonardo Gelber | Isaac Karabtchevsky | Swiss-Italian Radio Orchestra
Concerto, soloist and record label are all shown in a rather unflattering light by this strange enterprise. So many elements...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2005
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