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Rachmaninov Piano Works
This richly exploratory recital – far removed from a popular or commercial programme – contradicts at every turn stale, still...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1996
Rachmaninov (The) Miserly Knight
Like The Merchant of Venice, The Miserly Knight is nothing if not problematic. It’s a setting of Pushkin, whose faux-medieval...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 3/2005
Rachmaninov Piano Suites
Claire Chevallier | Jos van Immerseel
Chevallier was the soloist in an absorbing recording of Ravel’s Left Hand Concerto (10/06) played on a 1905 Erard and...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 8/2007
RACHMANINOV Variations on a theme of Chopin, Op 22. Piano Sonata No 1, Op 28
Having had, frankly, an indifferent time in recent years as a pianist in the studio, this great musician here returns...
Reviewed in issue 03/2012
Rachmaninov Works for Two Pianos
All the music on this CD was written before 1901, when the composer was in his late twenties (no mention...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1989
RACHMANINOV The Bells
These performances of The Bells are linked by venue. When a Beatle-haired André Previn brought the LSO and Chorus to...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 01/2013
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3
Barry Douglas | Evgeni Svetlanov | Russian State Symphony Orchestra
These performances date from 1993, the time of Barry Douglas’s frenetic and widely publicised career following his triumph in the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 9/2008
Rachmaninov/Scriabin Piano Concertos
Artur Pizarro | Martyn Brabbins | North German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
The Rachmaninov D minor is the concerto with which Artur Pizarro won the Leeds Competition (and many friends) back in...
Reviewed in issue 10/1998
Borodin; Rachmaninov; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas
Alexander Chaushian | Yevgeny Sudbin
Who is going to turn up their noses at 82 and a half minutes of Russian cello-and-piano classics, delivered with...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 8/2011
PROKOFIEV; RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos No 2 (Matsuev)
Denis Matsuev | Mariinsky Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Gergiev. Matsuev. Rachmaninov. What could possibly go wrong? Well, quite a lot as it happens. This is, apparently, a live...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2018
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