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Rachmaninov Vespers
Bulgarian Svetoslav Obretenov Choir | Georgi Robev | N Peneva | T Grigorov-Teres
Alexander Sveshnikov's Le Chant du Monde recording of Rachmaninov's Vespers is now elderly (it was actually made in 1965), but...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/1987
Rachmaninov Orchestral transcriptions
Alan Kogosowski | Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Neeme Järvi
Alan Kogosowski's motives in orchestrating the Trio elegiaque remain slightly baffling. The original is a fulsome work, certainly—a large-scale, heart-on-sleeve...
Reviewed in issue 6/1994
John Ogdon plays Rachmaninov
EMI’s threeCD tribute to John Ogdon dates from 1988‚ the year before his untimely death and‚ to put it bluntly‚...
Reviewed in issue 13/2002
Medtner/Rachmaninov Two Pianos Works
Dmitri Alexeev | Nikolai Demidenko
This beautifully planned and executed disc fills one with a special sense of warmth and gratitude. For not only were...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 10/1994
Rachmaninov Études-tableaux; Corelli Variations
On the face of it, this is an interesting coupling of two Rachmaninov works which are sharply contrasted one with...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 2/2010
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 4 (Trifonov)
Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Every pianist who records Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto these days has to have their own take, it seems, on the famous...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 11/2018
Rachmaninov Songs, Vol. 3
Alexandre Naoumenko | Howard Shelley | Joan Rodgers | Maria Popescu | Sergei Leiferkus
The final volume of this series of the complete Rachmaninov songs opens with a powerful dramatic outpouring. It is in...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996
BRAHMS; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Gautier Capuçon)
Andreas Ottensamer | Gautier Capuçon | Yuja Wang
One of the features of the Verbier Festival is its throwing together of artists who may never have performed together...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2022
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Bordeaux-Aquitaine National Orchestra | Kwamé Ryan
Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony is by no means a work that makes performers’ lives easy, and this version from the Bordeaux-Aquitaine...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 11/2009
Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra
Libor Pesek | Mikhail Pletnev | Philharmonia Orchestra
Two days after having included Ashkenazy's Rachmaninov (on Decca) in my selection for ''Critics' Choice'' I was a little disconcerted...
Reviewed in issue 12/1988
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