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Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 1 in D minor, Op. 13
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Orchestral » Symphonies
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 & Symphonic Dances
RecommendedThe Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
You need not only a sensitivity to the special string warmth but also an ideal flexibility for the tempo rubato implied when not explicitly requested...Nézet-Séguin does, in spades...Nor is... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1 & The Isle of the Dead
RecommendedRussian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rachmaninov's First Symphony of 1895... published only after the composer's death. Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic have the work's measure and their performance has a full-blooded... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2008, Orchestral Choice
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The hand-picked players of his Sinfonia of London are thrilling in [the] big moments, a relatively small ensemble conjuring the heftiest sonorities…Not always super-refined or conventionally... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 16th May 2025
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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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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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The LSO plays, as always, splendidly for Valery Gergiev. The general excellence and detail of their performance is remarkable. —
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Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead & Symphony No. 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
[The Isle of the Dead] has long been a Jurowski speciality and, unless you insist on the sensationally doom-laden, heavyfooted approach of late-career Evgeny Svetlanov (BBC, 1/08 et al), there... —
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there is far more to this performance than high-voltage aggression, for Petrenko's fluid interpretation perfectly encapsulates the romantic yearning and exoticism of the second idea in the first... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, Disc of the month
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