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RACHMANINOV Songs (Julia Sitkovetsky)
Julia Sitkovetsky | Roger Vignoles
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
(The) English Rachmaninov
All Saints Margaret Street Church Choir | Paul Brough
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
RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 4
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra | Simon Trpceski | Vasily Petrenko
Trpceski, Petrenko and the RLPO here join forces for the eagerly awaited follow-up to their Avie recording of Rachmaninov’s Second...
Reviewed by Geoffrey Norris in issue: 09/2011
RACHMANINOV; ROSE; SMETANA Piano Trios
With a discography including two volumes of Haydn (Naxos), the piano trios of Saint-Saëns (Guild, 11/14) and newer works by...
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 07/2022
Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
Lan Shui | Singapore Symphony Orchestra
Lan Shui took up the post of music director to the Singapore SO back in 1997 and on this evidence...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 7/2009
Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux
Rachmaninov’s first set of nine Etudes-tableaux was written in 1911 in tandem with the second set of Preludes, Op 32,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 2/2007
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas
For all their teeming surfaces, the Rachmaninov piano sonatas don’t have to be treated as virtuoso demonstration vehicles. Sane, dedicated,...
Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 08/2017
Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov
Leopold Stokowski | Philadelphia Orchestra | Sergey Rachmaninov
Although these recordings are already available on RCA's magnificent, and now Gramophone Award-winning, ten-CD salute to the composer (3/93), it...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 11/1993
Rachmaninov Preludes
How rare to hear Rachmaninov playing of Rustem Hayroudinoff’s enviable ease and inclusiveness. Musicianly to the core, without a trace...
Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: 1/2004
RACHMANINOV Chopin Variations. Song transcriptions (Georgijs Osokins)
The Latvian-born pianist Georgijs Osokins was one of six artists who, having failed to reach the finals of the 2015...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 09/2019
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