May be these 10 Rachmaninov recordings would grace any classical collection
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No 1
Piano Concerto No 2
Krystian Zimerman pf Boston SO / Seiji Ozawa
‘The verve and poetry of these performances somehow forbid comparison, even at the most exalted level’
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No 2
Symphony No 2
London Symphony Orchestra / Valery Gergiev
‘The risks and challenges that live performances invite are taken up and negotiated with aplomb’
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No 3
Preludes
Steven Osborne pf
‘Steven Osborne conveys both the monumentality of these pieces, even the most fleeting, and their very human qualities’
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No 4
Piano Concerto No 3
Vladimir Ashkenazy pf LSO / André Previn
‘What nobility of feeling and what dark regions of the imagination he relishes and explores’
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No 5
The Bells
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle
‘Individual movements probingly characterised and eloquently drawn together as a structural entity’
No 6
Piano Sonata No 2
Steven Osborne pf
‘What comes across is the ebb and flow of the work: the more inward passages are allowed to breathe; the extrovert ones are absolutely fiery’
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No 7
The Miserly Knight
Soloists; BBC PO / Gianandrea Noseda
‘Noseda leads the BBC PO and a cast from the Mariinsky in delving deep into the score’s substance’
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No 8
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yuja Wang pf Mahler Chamber Orchestra / Claudio Abbado
‘An unteachable ability to tug at the emotions without recourse to sentimentality’
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No 9
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / Stephen Cleobury
‘If I had only this recording on my desert island, I’d consider it a foretaste of Paradise’
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No 10
Vespers, ‘All-Night Vigil’
Latvian Radio Choir / Sigvards Kļava
‘There is a wonderfully kaleidoscopic (though carefully graded) palette of vocal colours throughout’
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