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Of all Tchaikovsky B-flat minor Piano Concerto recordings by major artists on major labels, the 1970 Weissenberg/Karajan EMI traversal ranks among the worst. The fault
William Kapell had a special affinity for Rachmaninov’s music and was able to make commercial recordings of three major works, two of which are included
Listeners curious about Moura Lympany’s 1951 Rachmaninov Preludes cycle for Decca (expertly refurbished by Testament) should not expect the kind of thunder, thrust, or surface
Pianistically speaking Olga Kern boasts solid-steel fingers and a powerful sonority to match, yet her efforts to make her interpretations interesting don’t ring true. In
This is the very same Horowitz/Rachmaninov coupling that was issued just a few years ago on RCA’s High Performance audiophile series. The current issue boasts
One of the great Rachmaninov recordings ever made, these accounts of the Third Symphony and Symphonic Dances by Mariss Jansons and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic
Evgeny Svetlanov’s expansive Rachmaninov First plays up the work’s overall dark cast (readily apparent from its motto theme) and persistent sense of foreboding. To this
This 1968 Svetlanov/USSR Symphony Rachmaninov Second Symphony follows hard on the heels of the recently issued 1985 live version (type Q7590 in Search Reviews). Colleague
They don’t make ’em like this anymore. Ferociously vulgar, full of self-regarding rubato, with whopping cuts in the scherzo and finale, this 1985 live recording
Although at first they may seem odd bedfellows, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov make a splendid pair in these absolutely superb and riveting performances of their respective
