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Lutoslawski/Rachmaninov/Webern Cello Works
Lutoslawski's Grave is a typically fastidious and confident piece, and packs a surprising deal of incident into its six minutes—surprising...
Reviewed in issue 10/1993
Rachmaninov/Shostakovich Symphonies
André Previn | London Symphony Orchestra
A generous, if unlikely, coupling valuable above all for Previn's quite exceptional account of the Rachmaninov. It's a performance that...
Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 11/1988
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3. Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Lan Shui | Singapore Symphony Orchestra | Yevgeny Sudbin
The Rhapsody kicks off at a real allegro vivace, full of intent and purpose but with less sense of an...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 05/2012
Dances & Dreams
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Evgeny Kissin | Simon Rattle
Rattle, Kissin, the Berlin Phil, New Year’s Eve: a delightful prospect – and viewable, by means of this DVD or...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 12/2012
Rachmaninov Monna Vanna, Act 1; Piano Concerto No. 4
Here is an enterprising issue and no mistake—an essential library acquisition, irrespective of the quality of the music or the...
Reviewed in issue 3/1992
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3
Both these versions of the Rachmaninov Concerto have their plusses and minusses. Few interpreters on record have shown as much...
Reviewed by Stephen Johnson in issue: 5/1990
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition; Rachmaninov Isle Of The Dead
BBC Symphony Orchestra | Evgeni Svetlanov
Evgeny Svetlanov was in a class of his own when it came to conducting Rachmaninov, seeming to have natural instincts...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 1/2010
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
André Previn | London Symphony Orchestra
However you look at it (or listen to it) Previn's CD is a disappointment. When the LP was reissued in...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 9/1986
Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition; Rachmaninov Etudes
This is a disc that should send shivers down the spine, one to be avoided late in the evening, for...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 12/2009
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 3; Moments musicaux
Joyce Hatto | National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra | René Köhler
These three discs present a strange dilemma. For if Joyce Hatto's performance of the Third Concerto and the Moments musicaux...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 2/2007
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