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RACHMANINOV Études-Tableaux (Complete)
One of Sviatoslav Richter’s great attributes as a Rachmaninov player was his ability to pick and choose among the compositions,...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 03/2016
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
RACHMANINOV Preludes (Moura Lympany)
Here is the first recording ever made of all Rachmaninov’s Preludes. Recorded for Decca between May 1941 and August 1942,...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017
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