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RACHMANINOV Moments Musicaux. Etudes-Tableaux Op 39
The 1990 winner of the Leeds International Piano Competition ranges far and wide and, having recently introduced us to the...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 01/2015
RACHMANINOV Troika
To see any of Rachmaninov’s three one-act operas staged in the opera house is a rare enough event but to...
Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 11/2016
MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV; SCRIABIN Piano Sonatas (Kenny Broberg)
Question: define the word ‘cheeky’. Answer: a person who (a) devotes their solo debut CD release to three of the...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 03/2023
RACHMANINOV Complete Études-tableaux (Osborne)
Before his flight to Scandinavia during the Bolshevik Revolution, Rachmaninov’s last recitals in Russia included some of the Op 39...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 09/2018
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2 (Ashkenazy)
Philharmonia Orchestra | Vladimir Ashkenazy
Vladimir Ashkenazy has always conducted Rachmaninov’s most extended symphony with conviction, making it feel not one bar too long. Indeed,...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 06/2018
MEDTNER; RACHMANINOV Piano Concertos
London Philharmonic Orchestra | Vladimir Jurowski
What an apt coupling this is. The two composers were close friends; Medtner’s Second Concerto, completed in the summer of...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2017
GLIÉRE 12 Album Leaves. RACHMANINOV Cello Sonata
Maja Bogdanovic | Maria Belooussova
Up until now, when I’ve thought about Reinhold Glière, I’ve tended to think big and bold: the Russian Sailors’ Dance...
Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: 05/2018
SHOSTAKOVICH Preludes RACHMANINOV Romances
The prize-winning Russian cellist Boris Andrianov here offers a programme of Russian music in transcriptions for cello and piano. Shostakovich’s...
Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 02/2015
RACHMANINOV Piano Sonatas
The more I hear of Xiayin (pronouncd ‘Sha een’) Wang, the more I think Chandos has landed an exceptional artist....
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 08/2014
RACHMANINOV Symphony No 2
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra | Tadaaki Otaka
Tadaaki Otaka is a Rachmaninov interpreter of no mean experience and insight – I for one recall with pleasure his...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 10/2012
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