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Rachmaninov Piano Transcriptions
This recording usefully completes Howard Shelley's richly comprehensive eight-disc series of Rachmaninov's piano music. Both the early and revised versions...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 3/1992
RACHMANINOV Preludes and Transcriptions
This disc, devoted to Rachmaninov, remembers Colin Horsley, a pianist of the utmost distinction. A New Zealander by birth, he...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 04/2014
Aho Symphonic Dances
Kroumata Percussion Ensemble | Lahti Symphony Orchestra | Osmo Vänskä
Kalevi Aho’s Symphonic Dances (2001) bear the subtitle ‘Hommage à Uuno Klami’ – and therein lies the clue to the...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2004
Rachmaninov Elegy Op 3. 6 Preludes Op 32. Piano Concerto No 3 Op 30
Mikhail Pletnev | Russian National Symphony Orchestra | Vladimir Feltsman
Confusingly, the disc gives top billing to Vladimir Feltsman (b1952, Moscow) on an album entitled “A Tribute to Rachmaninoff”, with...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2011
Mussorgsky/Rachmaninov Piano Works
Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov don't seem to be paired often, but work well together, for both are intensely Russian although the...
Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1994
Rachmaninov (The) Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op 31
Flemish Radio Choir | Kaspars Putnins
Rachmaninov's Liturgy is less well known than his Vigil (“Vespers”), but has nevertheless gained in popularity with western choirs as...
Reviewed by Ivan Moody in issue: 1/2007
Rachmaninov Symphony No 2; Vocalise, Op 34/14
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra | Yuri Temirkanov
RCA attempted to side-step the problems of recording in Russia by catching the St Petersburg Philharmonic and its Music Director...
Reviewed in issue 9/1994
Falla Nights in the Garden of Spain; Rachmaninov Symphony No 2
Annabelle Lawson | Chetham's Symphony Orchestra | Yan Pascal Tortelier
It is extraordinary how often Tortelier goes for and gets an accomplished fluid line in the Rachmaninov; and if the...
Reviewed by John Steane in issue: 5/1999
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No 4. Piano Sonata No 2. Corelli Variations
Cleveland Orchestra | Jean-Yves Thibaudet | Vladimir Ashkenazy
This, the third and final instalment in Decca’s Thibaudet/Ashkenazy Rachmaninov concerto cycle (previous issues were reviewed in 12/94 and 10/95),...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 5/1998
Respighi (5) Etudes-tableaux; Preludio, corale e fuga; Rossiniana
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | Gianandrea Noseda
Few composers can rival Ottorino Respighi in his exploitation of orchestral sound, not least in his arrangements of other composers'...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 1/2007
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