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Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 44
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Rachmaninov's Second Symphony has become one of his most popular works; here Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in gripping performances of all three, including the notorious... —
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Building a Library, October 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2016, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Rachmaninoff: Symphonies Nos. 2, 3 & Isle of the Dead
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
The sound of the orchestra in the Second Symphony is suitably dark in the introduction, and string-heavy and dark in the body of the movement. There is a nice amount of rubato and schmaltz.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Special offer. Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3
RecommendedThe Philadelphia Orchestra, Sergey Rachmaninov
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Building a Library, March 2016, Also Recommended
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Rachmaninoff in Lucerne
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Symphony No. 3
Behzod Abduraimov (piano), Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan
As far as I can gather, this piano has an extended frame affording the interpreter a richer tonal palette and greater dynamic range than on most other concert grands. Behzod Abduraimov obviously... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Osmo Vänskä conducts Rachmaninov and Bax
Recorded live at Royal Festival Hall, London, 8 December 2007.
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä
These are two marvellous orchestral display-pieces… Despite a host of sterling British competition from Boult, Barbirolli, Handley, Lloyd-Jones et al, Osmo Vänskä seems to have totally identified... —
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Rachmaninov: The Four Piano Concertos, Piano Works, Three Symphonies and Orchestral Works
RecommendedNikolai Lugansky (piano), Alexander Kniazev (cello), Sheila Armstrong • Robert Tear • John Shirley-Quirk
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Sakari Oramo, André Previn
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Grammy Awards, 19th Awards (1976), Best Choral Performance
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Gergiev’s passion for Rachmaninov is evident in his recordings of the three symphonies with the London Symphony Orchestra...The early Symphony No 1 (1895), so dismally received at its first... —
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 3, 'Youth' Symphony & The Rock
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
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Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3
Vsevolod Grivnov (tenor)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
a hint of Rachmaninov's beloved Philadelphia string sound surfaces in a few portamentos, but there's no gloss. The beautiful, sombre line continues in a chain of superb solos for the central... —