Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
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Concertos » Piano Concertos
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Destination Rachmaninov - Departure
RecommendedDaniil Trifonov (piano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Trifonov is wonderfully alive to [the Fourth’s] mercurial piano writing, achieving astonishing crystalline delicacy in the elaborate filigree passage work and negotiating unexpected juxtapositions... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th October 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Building a Library, December 2018, Also Recommended
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2018
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Concerto
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2019, Winner - Piano
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel
Rachmaninov’s First Piano Concerto opens in thundering style, before a glittering pianistic masterclass in high-speed touch from Wang, alternating between virtuosic shimmering and emotive depth.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Concerto
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Rachmaninoff: the Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
Yuja Wang (piano), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel
Wang has recorded three of the works before...But however dazzling those performances are technically, she is a much more mature performer nowadays. While the flashy exuberance of the First... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Concerto
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Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody
RecommendedStephen Hough (piano)
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
The underrated Fourth Concerto features the Dallas Symphony's stellar brass and winds ideally aligned, plus Hough's balletic projection of the finale's dazzling runs. No less distinct are the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2004, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended Recording
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4 and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Simon Trpčeski (piano)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
[Nos 1 & 4] have never been such sure-fire crowd-pleasers, but Trpčeski certainly plays them with fire and passion. No. 1 emerges as big-boned and compelling, while he plays up the leanly modernist... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1, etc.
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
The Rachmaninov dream team of the 1970s play this much-hackneyed score with a freshness, moving sincerity and exhilarating emotional power that galvanises the attention from start to finish.... — 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…
Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010, Editor's Choice
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Rachmaninov - Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra
RecommendedRafael Orozco
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Edo de Waart
Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, July 2019, Proms BaL Recommendation
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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto Nos. 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Boris Giltburg (piano), Brussels Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky
Characterful, sensitive and technically dazzling , he’s in his element in these electrifying works – and the Brussels Phil provides lush accompaniment. — More…
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Sergey Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Abbey Simon (piano), St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
