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Rachmaninov: The Bells & Symphonic Dances
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Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mariss Jansons
This superlative performance…is one of those stratospherically accomplished, ‘cosmic’ ones that Jansons says he is always trying to attain… Jansons has Rachmaninov in his very soul; but he is... — More…
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
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Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Antonio Pappano
As Andsnes observed in interview, the conductor is the one who really drives the Second Concerto, and after spacious opening chords it's over to Pappano's Berliners for opulent sweep. Andsnes... — More…
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Rachmaninov Variations
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Daniil Trifonov (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
the Philadelphians under Yannick Nézet-Séguin provide sterling support for Trifonov's stunning pyrotechnics. There are also moments of magical repose, Trifonov achieving astonishing beauty of... — More…
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the Rachmaninov of Latvia's outstanding professional choir presents a golden mean between the uniquely open-throated but not always pitch-perfect Glinka Choir of the hallowed St Petersburg tradition,... — More…
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Rachmaninov: Songs
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Evelina Dobraceva, Ekaterina Siurina (sopranos), Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano), Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Andrei Bondarenko, Rodion Pogossov (baritones), Alexander Vinogradov (bass) & Iain Burnside (piano)
I was quickly won over by Andrei Bondarenko's burnished baritone sound and sensitivity...The two sopranos are top-note perfect...At times, the heavier-weight voices of mezzo Justina Gringyte... — More…
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Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances & The Bells
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Luba Orgonášová (soprano), Dmitro Popov (tenor) & Mikhail Petrenko (bass)
Berliner Philharmoniker, with Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
this Bells may be unsurpassable...The three soloists are superb, even if Dmytro Popov is a more heroic tenor than usual and Luba Orgonasova plays firm matriarch at the wedding rather than young... — More…
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
[Andsnes] manages to make the first movement sound more sinister and wayward than most of his rivals, yet he's in his element in etching the filigree and fioriture of the highly-decorated solo... — More…
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Tharaud plays Rachmaninov
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Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Sabine Devieilhe (soprano), Aleksandar Madžar (piano) & Alexander Melnikov (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Vedernikov
After the famous introductory bars – following the score rather than the composer’s recording – the sweeping first subject enters faster, thankfully, than Richter’s celebrated account but with... — More…
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yuja Wang (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
She makes us hear this hoariest of Romantic war-horses afresh, as if with cleaned ears: the work emerges as almost classical, Mozartian even, in its poise and architecture. There isn't an iota... — More…
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Anna Netrebko - Russian Album
Anna Netrebko, Dmitry Voropaev, Vladimir Moroz
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev
Anna Netrebko frames her recital with the two great heroines of Russian 19th- and 20th- century opera: Tatyana in Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Natasha in Prokofiev's War and Peace. …Netrebko... — More…
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