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RACHMANINOV. CHOPIN Sonatas for Cello and Piano
The first thing that strikes you about Denise Djokic is her sound. It’s plush and beautifully moulded. She’s at her...
Reviewed in issue 02/2014
Rachmaninov All-Night Vigil
Jeanne Polvtsova | Leningrad Glinka Academy Choir | Sergei Rokozitsa | Vladislav Chernushenko
With four recently issued or reissued discs of Rachmaninov's Vespers—by Sveshnikov, Polianski (both Le Chant du Monde/Harmonia Mundi), Robev (Sound...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 12/1989
Rachmaninov; Prokofiev Cello Sonatas
Rachmaninov’s Cello Sonata presents notorious balance problems. Though the composer took care in the Andante to give the two instruments...
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 2/2008
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 2; Paganini Rhapsody
Cleveland Orchestra | Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Here is the start of yet another Rachmaninov cycle, this time with the stimulus of a French–German/Russian alliance. Everything is...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/1994
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4
Edo de Waart | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis
As indicated above, Concerto No. 4 was with us on LP, and did not impress. It is all highly accomplished...
Reviewed in issue 8/1985
Rachmaninov Preludes; Piano Sonata 2
These performances, especially of the Preludes, are very familiar to me, and I hope to many others. They are the...
Reviewed in issue 11/1985
Rachmaninov Préludes; Moments musicaux
In terms of musical style, Richard Strauss’s lyrical Op 18 (1887) sits poised somewhere between Brahms’s chivalrous song-cycle Die schone...
Reviewed in issue 5/2001
Russian Émigré Composers: Prokofiev, Medtner, Grechaninov, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky
Given the title, it is surprising, to say the least, that not a single item on this disc was actually...
Reviewed by Michelle Assay in issue: 11/2018
Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra
Earl Wild | Jascha Horenstein | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Such is the luxuriance of sound revealed in these remasterings, it is difficult to believe the recording dates; and such...
Reviewed in issue 9/1987
Inessa Galante sings Goldin and Rachmaninov
Inessa Galante | Ingmars Zemzars | Inta Villerusa | Janis Bulvas | Vladimir Choclov
These recordings, made by Latvian Radio between 1986 and 1991, reveal a seductively sweet-voiced lyric soprano who is a real...
Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 8/1996
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