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Review of TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio Op 50 RACHMANINOV Trio élégiaque

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Trio Op 50 RACHMANINOV Trio élégiaque

Trio Testore

Audite

By the time Rachmaninov wrote his first Trio élégiaque, Tchaikovsky had already established the in memoriam mood that was to...

Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: AW2014

Review of Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3, etc

Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3, etc

Boston Symphony Orchestra | Evgeny Kissin | Seiji Ozawa

Red Seal

Rachmaninov Third follows Rachmaninov Third in eager succession as each pianist fights to produce the ultimate version. Evgeni Kissin is...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 8/1993

Review of Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos

Mariss Jansons | Mikhail Rudy | St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

EMI

With this issue Mikhail Rudy and the St Petersburg Philharmonic under Mariss Jansons complete their well-recorded EMI cycle of the...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/1995

Review of Rachmaninov The Last Great Romantic

Rachmaninov The Last Great Romantic

Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra | David Helfgott | Milan Horvat

Red Seal

The strange tale of David Helfgott, the 50-year-old Australian pianist, has been filmed and chronicled to heady public and critical...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1997

Review of Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3

Boris Berezovsky | Dmitry Liss | Ural Philharmonic Orchestra

Mirare

With two favourite romantic concertos in the hands of one of today’s foremost virtuosi one might reasonably expect something exceptional,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 4/2006

Review of SEREBRIER Symphonic BACH Variations

SEREBRIER Symphonic BACH Variations

Australian Chamber Orchestra | Barcelona Symphony Orchestra | Echos Del Mar Choir | José Serebrier | Richard Tognetti | RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra | Sharon Bezaly

BIS

While consistently light-textured in its scoring for string orchestra, each movement of José Serebrier’s Flute Concerto with Tango (2008) has...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: 04/2020

Review of Rachmaninov Piano Works

Rachmaninov Piano Works

Oxana Yablonskaya

Connoisseur Society

Oxana Yablonskaya (Russian-born but American-based) offers a richly comprehensive selection of Rachmaninov's music, taking us through fiery intricacy, veiled melancholy...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1994

Review of RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 4

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 1 - 4

London Symphony Orchestra | Michael Francis | Valentina Lisitsa

Decca

No doubt critics have been sharpening their pens in anticipation of Valentina Lisitsa’s Rachmaninov concerto cycle, which is bound to...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 06/2013

Review of Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra

Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra

Mariss Jansons | Mikhail Rudy | St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

EMI

Those of us who have not had the good fortune to visit Philharmonic Hall in St Petersburg can now glean,...

Reviewed in issue 11/1993

Review of Julius Katchen plays Rachmaninov & Dohnányi

Julius Katchen plays Rachmaninov & Dohnányi

Adrian Boult | Anatole Fistoulari | Julius Katchen | London Philharmonic Orchestra | New Symphony Orchestra

Dutton Laboratories

Julius Katchen’s coupling of the Rachmaninov and Dohnanyi’s Variations was a classic of the mono LP catalogue, surviving on Decca’s...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 5/1996

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