Tag: Sergei Rachmaninov
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Rachmaninov: Symphony No. 1; Isle of the Dead – Evgeny Svetlanov, USSR Symphony Orchestra
“Svetlanov’s volcanic 1966 recording … heartbreakingly intense yet grippingly coherent conception, brimful of insight and flair … shoots off like a rocket … finale enshrines as adrenalin-fuelled a ride to the abyss as you will ever hear … the pathos of the symphony’s Largo has to be heard to be believed (decibel levels defeated plucky Soviet…
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Richter in Brooklyn
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Rachmaninov: Complete Orchestral Works
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Classic Valentine – Music for Love
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Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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Sviatoslav Richter – The Early Years: Rise of a Virtuoso Legend
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Aleko (Complete Opera, One Act)
“first performance arranged at the prestigious Bolshoi, where it shared a double bill with Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta (at his insistence). The composition was highly esteemed by the examiners’ board which included Taneyev and Arensky. Rachmaninov got the highest mark, and was awarded the gold medal. In 1897, Aleko premiered in St Petersburg, the title role taken…
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Rachmaninov Vespers (All-Night Vigil) Op.37
“Polyansky and the USSR…are superb … It is marvellous music, strong in its sense of tradition yet yielding to different interpretative approaches. Greater drama, in fact, is contained in some of Polyansky’s powerfully controlled meditations. Polyansky is inward though positive and well-judged” (Gramophone)
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The Romantic Piano Concerto Anthology, Vol. 3, 1881-1962 [The VoxMegaBox Edition]
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Sergei Rachmaninov: The Bells
“always something special about a Russian performance. The slavonic fervour and natural intensity of the singing, both solo and choral, give a gripping added immediacy here to The Bells … an added edge is the inclusion of the stirring cantata called Spring: an immediately attractive piece quite superbly sung by its baritone soloist, Sergei Yakovenko…
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