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Rachmaninov Piano Works
Some months ago when 'Building a Library' for BBC Radio 3's ''Record Review'', I opted for Howard Shelley's elegant and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1994
Virtuoso Arrangement by Earl Wild: Rachmaninov
Martin Jones’s seemingly insatiable appetite for mining the piano repertoire en masse continues with a second CD devoted to virtuoso transcriptions...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: AW17
Rachmaninov Early Piano Works
''Early Piano Works'' is a slight misnomer, since only eight of the 13 miniatures (which occupy Side 2 of the...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
Rachmaninov Concerto for Piano No 3; Scriabin Etudes
Lang Lang | St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Yuri Temirkanov
Lang Lang‚ the 19yearold Chinese pianist now resident in America‚ appears to have already accrued a lifelong career‚ so extensive...
Reviewed in issue 6/2002
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2. Vocalise
Neville Marriner | Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
One look at the timings reveals all: at under 50 minutes Marriner makes just about every cut available to him,...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1991
Rachmaninov Complete Piano Concertos; Paganini Rhapsody
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra | James Loughran | Oleg Marshev
Oleg Marshev, born in Baku and Russian-trained, has already displayed his virtuoso prowess in a series of adventurous discs for...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2003
CHOPIN; RACHMANINOV Cello Sonatas (Jean-Guihen Queyras)
Alexander Melnikov | Jean-Guihen Queyras
According to Isabelle Rouard’s booklet note, Ignaz Moscheles described Chopin’s Cello Sonata as like ‘a wild overgrown forest, into which...
Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 09/2022
Rachmaninov Piano Works
After the richly deserved acclaim that greeted his Scarlatti disc (5/05), Russian-born Yevgeny Sudbin moves onto home ground. And here,...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/2005
Rachmaninov Vespers
(Robert) Shaw Festival Singers | Karl Dent | Robert Shaw
There are now quite a few versions of Rachmaninov's Vespers—or, more correctly, All-night vigil, combining Vespers, Matins and Prime. Among...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/1990
Rachmaninoff Caprice bohémien. Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
Early and late Rachmaninov rub shoulders on this latest release in the BBC Philharmonic’s impressive series, with a particularly fine...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 10/2011
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