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Grieg; Rachmaninov Piano Concertos
Arthur Rubinstein | Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra | Leopold Stokowski | Percy Grainger
These performances are of rare musical and documentary value. Rubinstein recorded Rachmaninov’s Second Concerto with Stokowski in 1945 but the...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 7/1998
Rachmaninov & Chopin Cello Sonatas
Bernard Gregor-Smith | Yolande Wrigley
Both of these sonatas are notorious for the balance problems they pose for the cello/piano team—and indeed for the record...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 7/1990
A Window in Time - Rachmaninov Plays Rachmaninov
The day I believe in these recordings will be the day when someone discovers Rachmaninov diary fragments that chronicle a...
Reviewed in issue 1/1999
MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; TCHAIKOVSKY Works for Piano (Nikolay Medvedev)
This is my first encounter with Nikolay Medvedev, a Russian pianist born in 1986, a graduate of the Gnessin Russian...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 02/2022
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No. 3, etc
Edo de Waart | San Francisco Symphony Orchestra | Zoltán Kocsis
It is obviously not the sentimental aspect of Rachmaninov's music that has attracted Zoltan Kocsis to record all of the...
Reviewed in issue 1/1986
Chopin; Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concertos
Berlin Symphony Orchestra | Santiago Rodriguez | Stephen Gunzenhauser
For all his talent Cuban-American Santiago Rodriguez remains a sadly inconsistent, unfocused pianist; almost as if his mood changed from...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 6/2000
DIEPENBROCK Symphonic Poems
Antony Hermus | Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
The Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock (1862-1921) was one of music’s great amateurs. An academic classicist by profession, he was self-taught...
Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 11/2016
Rachmaninov Piano Sonata No 1; Medtner Forgotten Melodies, Set I
Medtner's Sonata reminiscenza is not a complete rarity. It was a favourite of Gilels, who recorded it at least twice...
Reviewed in issue 1/1990
Rachmaninov/R.Strauss Cello Sonatas
Anne Gastinel | Pierre-Laurent Aimard
I suppose Richard Strauss's Cello Sonata must have a number of devotees, but I was slightly frustrated to hear such...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 12/1993
Rachmaninov/Schnittke Cello Sonatas
Alexander Baillie | Piers Lane
It will be fascinating to see how the mood of Soviet music changes with glasnost and perestroika. How long will...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 4/1990
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