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Review of RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3

RACHMANINOV Symphony No 3

London Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Jurowski

LPO

These live recordings, finely played and boasting an impressive Concertgebouw-like bloom, were in fact made in Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 03/2016

Review of Sonya Bach: Rachmaninov

Sonya Bach: Rachmaninov

Sonya Bach

Rubicon

Korean pianist Sonya Bach takes Rachmaninov more by subtlety than by storm. This pays many dividends. She makes the Second...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 10/2021

Review of Rachmaninov - Rare Rachmaninov

Rachmaninov - Rare Rachmaninov

Dene Olding | Goldner Quartet | Joan Rodgers | Vladimir Ashkenazy

Sydney SO

Only two actual songs are included here, a pair of sacred settings dating from 1916 (very late in Rachmaninov’s life...

Reviewed by John Warrack in issue: 10/2009

Review of Rachmaninov Piano Trios

Rachmaninov Piano Trios

Dmitry Yablonsky | Eduard Wulfson | Valeri Grohovski

Naxos

Rachmaninov’s two piano trios may both bear the sobriquet “élégiaque” but that is where the similarity ends. The first was...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 5/2007

Review of BOWEN; MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Works for two pianos (Moog, Adomeit)

BOWEN; MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Works for two pianos (Moog, Adomeit)

Joseph Moog | Kai Adomeit

Onyx

Joseph Moog and Kai Adomeit are so well matched that you can hardly tell the pianists apart. In the opening...

Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2023

Review of RACHMANINOV Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)

RACHMANINOV Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)

Julia Sitkovetsky | Roger Vignoles

Hyperion

Think Rachmaninov romances and one thinks of sighing poets, unrequited love and plenty of Russian doom and gloom, usually sung...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 05/2020

Review of RACHMANINOV Moments musicaux

RACHMANINOV Moments musicaux

Xiayin Wang

Chandos

Here, even in Rachmaninov’s most savage and turbulent pages, is playing of an awesome clarity and poise. Xiayin Wang makes...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 09/2012

Review of RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos 1 & 3 "Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival"

RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos 1 & 3 "Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival"

Philadelphia Orchestra | Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Deutsche Grammophon

Trifonov’s Rachmaninov is unlike anyone else’s. Whether that’s down to wilfulness and self-regard or individuality and integrity is open to...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 11/2019

Review of (The) English Rachmaninov

(The) English Rachmaninov

All Saints Margaret Street Church Choir | Paul Brough

Priory

In October 1924 Rachmaninov, on tour in Britain, went to the church of All Saints, Margaret Street, in central London...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 4/2006

Review of RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes

RACHMANINOV Complete Preludes

Leon McCawley

Somm Recordings

Leaving frantic and over-pressured playing to others, Leon McCawley finds a delicate emotional fervour with no lack of drama in...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 05/2015

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