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Rachmaninoff - Prelude Op. 3 No. 2 in C sharp minor
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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Preludes
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In this warmly recorded release, John Wilson appears to get the balance just right. There’s plenty of heft as well as requisite warmth in the big orchestral climaxes, for instance near the end... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2023
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Building a Library, March 2006, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2005, Disc of the month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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His sensitivity is abundantly demonstrated and he’s always careful to avoid climaxes becoming overbearing or, heaven forbid, percussive… Where I have slight reservations about the playing is... —
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Building a Library, December 2022, Recommended Recording
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Rachmaninov & Myaskovsky: Sonatas for Cello and Piano
RecommendedBruno Philippe (cello) & Jérôme Ducros (piano)
'It’s difficult to understand why Nikolai Myaskovsky’s First Cello Sonata remains so neglected…Philippe inflects the music with great fervour, strongly supported by Jérôme Ducros’s impressive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2019, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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…Outstanding Rachmaninov playing of acute perception, discretion and poetic sensibility, limpid, powerful and luminous in equal measure. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Keeping things very much 'en famille', virtually everything on the CD owes a debt to the musical heritage of Notre Dame; and if that wasn't enough to justify the pedestrian-seeming programme,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Instrumental Choice
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Lugansky captures the depth of emotion and sheer variety…he demonstrates a balance of power and poise that mark him out as a notable Rachmaninov interpreter. The Steinway model D sounds glorious. —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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Lisiecki’s strongest suit is the three pieces he has selected from Messiaen’s Huit Préludes pour piano, both from the beauty and sensitivity of the performances and for having resisted the temptation... —
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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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