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Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3; Paganini Variations
Christopher Seaman | Jon Nakamatsu | Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
This is thoroughly musical and satisfying Rachmaninov playing‚ and I don’t intend that as a backhanded compliment. Many performances of...
Reviewed in issue 11/2001
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No3. Etudes Tableaux
Cristina Ortiz | Philharmonia Orchestra
Rachmaninov may have once called this ''a concerto for elephants'', but that has not prevented pianists of more modest physique...
Reviewed in issue 9/1991
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No 2. Variations on a Theme of Corelli
Kirill Karabits | London Philharmonic Orchestra | Vanessa Benelli Mosell
The London-trained Italian pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell has conspicuous musical (and even more conspicuous photogenic) talent, and for a young...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 05/2017
RACHMANINOV Variations on a Theme of Corelli LISZT Paganini Etudes
Many pianists, I suspect, would envy the long résumé of recital dates, chamber music collaborations and teaching credits mentioned in...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 07/2018
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonata No 1 RAVEL Gaspard de la nuit (Valentina Lisitsa)
You will remember Valentina Lisitsa as the Ukrainian pianist who broke the mould by establishing an international career courtesy of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2022
Rachmaninov Preludes, Bk.2; Shostakovich Piano Sonata 1
Lilya Zilberstein is a young Russian pianist who trained at the Gnessin Institute under Ada Traub and Alexander Sats. She...
Reviewed in issue 12/1989
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
André Previn | Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Previn made a famous LP recording with the LSO of this symphony in the early seventies for HMV which one...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 10/1985
Rachmaninov; Sibelius; Tüür Choral and Orchestral Works
Anu Tali | Lasse Pöysti | Latvija Chorus | Nordic Symphony Orchestra | Tanel Joamets
Having already championed the music of Veljo Tormis (b1930) on her debut disc for Finlandia (8/02), Anu Tali now turns...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 4/2005
Rachmaninov Piano Concertos Nos 3 and 4
Ivan Shpiller | Nikolai Lugansky | Russian State Academic Symphony Orchestra
I first heard Nikolai Lugansky, a young prize-winning Russian pianist, last year when two Rachmaninov recital discs came my way...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/1996
Rachmaninov Works for Piano & Orchestra
Cécile Ousset | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle
Though the piano is nearly always at the centre of attention in Rachmaninov's Concerto No. 2, it is a lyrical...
Reviewed in issue 12/1984
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