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Rachmaninov/Stravinsky Orchestral Works
Arnold Kaz | Nelli Lee | Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra
The remote community of Novosibirsk might seem an unlikely setting for a thriving cultural life but the Russian-Soviet tradition of...
Reviewed in issue 2/1995
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Rattle)
London Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle
The London Symphony Orchestra have a kind of ownership on this piece. The era of André Previn and his and...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 05/2021
Neave Trio: Musical Remembrances - Brahms; Rachmaninov; Ravel
Some themes seem more alluring on paper than in reality, and the linking of three quite disparate sound worlds and...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 07/2022
Brahms & Rachmaninov orchestrated Schoenberg & Respighi
Gennady Rozhdestvensky | London Philharmonic Orchestra
Oh dear! Only last February I was suggesting that Jarvi on Chandos may have stretched the Brahms Quartet (in Schoenberg's...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 8/1991
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos, etc
Writing of Zoltan Kocsis’s Philips recital of solo Rachmaninov works in the March issue I celebrated performances “gloriously free-spirited and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1996
Rachmaninov; Shostakovich Piano Trios
Alexander Kniazev | Boris Berezovsky | Dmitri Mahktin
Rachmaninov’s only substantial piano trio remains a relative rarity in the catalogue. It’s not hard to see why, for this...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 4/2005
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Nelson Goerner | Vassily Sinaisky
Anyone recording Rachmaninov’s Third Concerto faces intimidating competition, not least from the composer himself, Horowitz – most of all in...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 4/2003
Rachmaninov: Vocal & Choral Works
There is always something special about a Russian performance of Russian music. The slavonic fervour and the natural intensity of...
Reviewed in issue 7/1989
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos
André Previn | London Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
It is possible to shop around for individually outstanding recordings of the Rachmaninov concertos—Earl Wild in No. 1 (Chandos), Richter...
Reviewed in issue 3/1990
Rachmaninov/Miaskovsky Cello Sonatas
Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Truls Mørk
Twenty cellists have now contributed a recording of Rachmaninov’s Sonata to the current catalogue, the senior of them being Paul...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 11/1996
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