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Mikhail Pletnev plays the Rachmaninov Piano
Gimmickry? Not a bit of it. This is a genuinely illuminating and thought-provoking issue. More than that, it’s immensely enjoyable....
Reviewed in issue 3/1999
Rachmaninov from Ampico Piano Rolls
Over the past 20 years or so I have followed the release of piano-roll material on disc with great interest....
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 6/1990
PROKOFIEV Piano Sonata No 7 SCRIABIN Piano Sonata No 5
In Alexander Gavrylyuk we have a young Russian pianist who has surely inherited the mantle of Emil Gilels, during his...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 02/2012
Rachmaninov Transcriptions
Alastair Mackie | Dódy Ashkenazy | Vladimir Ashkenazy | Vovka Ashkenazy
Having recorded a major part of Rachmaninov’s piano music, Ashkenazy continues with the piano transcriptions, a cornucopia of teasing sophistication...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 12/2002
Rachmaninov Works for Piano and Orchestra
Andrei Gavrilov | Philadelphia Orchestra | Riccardo Muti
The Concerto appears a year after, but was recorded six months before, Gavrilov's live Moscow performance (also on EMI). Not...
Reviewed in issue 10/1991
Rachmaninov Complete Solo Piano Music
The discrepancy in the number of CDs contained in these two sets of the purportedly 'complete' music for solo piano...
Reviewed by James Methuen-Campbell in issue: 3/1994
Jimin Oh-Havenith: Russian Piano Forte
In the small differences between Mussorgsky’s original piano score and Rimsky-Korsakov’s revision, Jimin Oh-Havenith sticks quite faithfully to the manuscript....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2022
Sergio Fiorentino
Here, after nearly 30 years, is a welcome return to the recording studio for Sergio Fiorentino. It may be stretching...
Reviewed in issue 9/1996
Russian Piano Sonatas
The gladiatorial approach to piano-playing lives on, and in the concert-hall the attendant sense of spectacle can be its own...
Reviewed in issue 8/1993
Russians Dances & Ballet
French Radio Philharmonic Orchestra | Mariinsky Choir | Paavo Järvi
Collections of orchestral lollipops like this often look good on paper, but do not always work as a satisfying listening...
Reviewed by Ivan March in issue: 7/2004
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