Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off
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Chandos Sale - Physical up to 25% Off & Downloads up to 40% Off, Rachmaninoff (composer)
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3, Vocalise & The Isle of the Dead
RecommendedSinfonia of London, John Wilson
Wilson’s way with the music seems to owe more to the x-ray clarity of Toscanini and Szell...sprung like a sports car, tightly resilient on its bushings. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil
Arranged for all-male choir by Gretchaninoff, Lazarev and Sheehan
Igor Morozov, Evgeny Kachurovski, Alexis V. Lukianov, Patram Institute Male Choir, Ekaterina Antonenko
There are some jaw-dropping bass sonorities here, but the overall impression is far from sombre: indeed, what is most surprising is the sense of lightness and tenderness that emerges from using... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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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... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th April 2023
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
RecommendedPhoenix Chorale & Kansas City Chorale, Charles Bruffy
No doubt about it, these are two very fine professional choirs, unique in an unparalleled lower-register smokiness and resonance. The basses can reach the famous bottom notes: the C at the end... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Choral Performance
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Aleko
RecommendedSergey Murzaev (Aleko), Evgeny Akimov (Young Gypsy), Gennady Bezzubenkov (Old Man), Svetla Vassileva (Zemfira)
BBC Philharmonic & Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, Gianandrea Noseda
Gennady Bezzubenkov declaims powerfully as the Old Gypsy, and Evgeny Akimov is elegant in his short cavatina. The chorus, from Turin's Teatro Regio, supplies suitably languid tone. — More…
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4, etc.
Earl Wild (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jascha Horenstein
Such is the luxuriance of sound revealed in these remasterings, it's difficult to believe the recording date; and such is the quality of the piano playing that it's easy to understand why Chandos... — More…
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: The Miserly Knight, Op. 24
Ildar Abdrazakov (bass), Misha Didyk (tenor), Sergey Murzaev (baritone), Peter Bronder (tenor) & Gennadi Bezzubenkov (bass)
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
..Gianandrea Noseda, masterly at pacing and responsive to orchestral colour… Ildar Abdrazakov, certainly the finest bass voice to emerge from Russia in decades. …the performance exerts a fierce,... — More…
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[Mercier] has a chameleon-like ability to blend, spar or float in and out of focus as the need arises…[their choice of instruments] allow one to hear the inner workings of these busy scores... — More…
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Philharmonia Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Francesca da Rimini
Svetla Vassileva (Francesca), Misha Didyk (Paolo), Sergey Murzaev (Lanciotto), Gennady Bezzubenkov (Ghost of Virgil) & Evgeny Akimov (Dante Alighieri)
BBC Singers & BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
This is an excellent way of coming to know a flawed but interesting piece of Rachmaninov, and it is much helped by excellent presentation from Chandos. — More…
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