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Before making a new recording of a warhorse symphony such as this one, the conductor should be chained to a chair and forced to listen
Some hits, some misses: Even the tiniest rhetorical adjustments in Rachmaninov’s G minor Prelude diffuse the gathering momentum of its austere march, and Valentina Igoshina’s
André Previn’s EMI recording of Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra remains one of the finest available. His Telarc remake isn’t quite so
Since his death, Sviatoslav Richter has emerged as the Grateful Dead of classical pianists. Wherever he played tape recorders followed, and, well, you know the
It’s hard to realize that it’s been more than a dozen years since the death of Finnish bass Martti Talvela, so vividly does his resonant
Volume Four of Naxos’ complete survey of Benno Moiseiwitsch’s shellac recordings brings us his Rachmaninov First and Second Concertos plus the Paganini Rhapsody (he never
Mikhail Pletnev and Libor Pešek’s 1988 Rachmaninov disc makes a welcome reappearance at mid-price. Pešek launches the concerto with a refreshing athleticism, resisting the temptation
Sviatoslav Richter’s June 19, 1966 Aldeburgh Festival recital first “officially” appeared on a limited edition BBC release (WMCU 0013-2). It also included Mozart’s piano duet
Benno Moiseiwitsch recorded his good friend Sergei Rachmaninov’s C minor concerto twice: once on 78s, and a mono LP remake in 1955 with Hugo Rignold
Alexei Sultanov’s uninspired account of Tchaikovsky’s B-flat minor concerto won’t reward repeated listening. Only Maxim Shostakovich’s urgent leadership keeps the opening movement out of trouble,
