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Bortkiewicz; Rachmaninov Works for Violin and Piano
Cristian Persinaru | Nils Franke
Sergey Bortkiewicz is one of the lesser known of the many émigrés who escaped from Bolshevik Russia. In his case...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 6/0
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 3
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Nikolai Lugansky | Sakari Oramo
Nikolai Lugansky, the young and immensely gifted Russian pianist, shows throughout his performances of both concertos that his training and...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/2003
Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Nikolai Lugansky | Sakari Oramo
The latest volume of Nikolai Lugansky’s Rachmaninov cycle offers a coupling of early and late works, ranging widely through the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2004
MOZART Piano Concerto No 20 RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2
Aldo Ciccolini | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Aldo Ciccolini can be numbered among the likes of Arthur Rubinstein, Mieczysław Horszowski, Vlado Perlemuter and the still-very-much-active Menahem Pressler...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 05/2018
Chopin; Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas
Alexander Kniazev | Nikolai Lugansky
Chopin’s and Rachmaninov’s sonatas have not all that often been coupled on record, though they make good if demanding partners....
Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 4/2007
Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov
Very fortunately, Rachmaninov's consummate genius as a pianist was captured on a number of records. They stand as one of...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 5/1990
Rachmaninov (The) Bells
Recorded at the International Rostropovich Festival in Moscow earlier this year, this programme has Rachmaninov’s choral symphony The Bells at...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 13/2010
Grieg & Rachmaninov Cello Sonatas
Though by no means a luminary like Rachmaninov, Grieg was an accomplished pianist known to have been contemplating a second...
Reviewed by Joan Chissell in issue: 4/1997
Liszt; Rachmaninov Piano Works
Evelina Puzaite is a 25-year-old Lithuanian, winner of the Landor Competition. Suitably, she includes music by her fellow Lithuanian Ciurlionis,...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 11/2007
Rachmaninov Symphony 2
(Royal) Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam | Vladimir Ashkenazy
In my original review of this dramatic, totally unsentimental reading of a now-favourite symphony I had reservations about the digial...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/1983
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