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Rachmaninov String Quartets and Romances
Moz-art Quartet | Svetlana Sumatchova
The string quartets recorded here are not startling new discoveries but incomplete works dating from the very beginning of Rachmaninov's...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1994
Rachmaninov Solo Piano Works
For youthful bravura, technique to burn and heart-on-sleeve emotion, you need look no further: 26-year-old Macedonian virtuoso Simon Trpceski is...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2005
Rachmaninov Symphony No 1; Caprice bohèmien
Alexander Anissimov | National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland
A final act of daring in the symphony – the way Anissimov leads up to and lands us in the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 11/1999
Kissin plays Rachmaninov
Evgeny Kissin | London Symphony Orchestra | Valery Gergiev
Evgeny Kissin, in case you missed the New Year's Eve international telecast from Berlin, is an 18-year-old Russian who is...
Reviewed in issue 3/1989
Earl Wild plays Rachmaninov Song Transcriptions
There aren't really many great pianists around who could vie with Earl Wild as an improviser and transcriber; these reworkings...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 11/1987
Rachmaninov Cello Works
Lynn Harrell | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rachmaninov's lengthy, not to say protracted, Cello Sonata was written for his friend Anatoly Brandukov, an evidently gifted and delightful...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 8/1986
Cyril Smith plays Rachmaninov
Here is a superb as well as nostalgic reminder of why Cyril Smith (1909-74) was among Rachmaninov’s favoured interpreters. Many...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1999
Rachmaninov/Dvorák/Sibelius Cello Works
Elisabeth Leonskaja | Heinrich Schiff
Hard on the heels of the performance of Rachmaninov's Cello Sonata by Lynn Harrell and Vladimir Ashkenazy on Decca comes...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1986
Chopin; Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas
This coupling of Romantic cello sonatas performed by two gifted young artists may satisfy all but connoisseurs of Chopin and...
Reviewed in issue 7/2002
Rachmaninov; Shostakovich Cello Sonatas
Jacqueline Bourgès-Maunoury | Ksenija Jankovic
Rachmaninov’s and Shostakovich’s cello sonatas have become a popular coupling, with no fewer than three in the past year alone....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 1/2009
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