This is a disc of high contrasts. Rachmaninov's ardently romantic cello sonata is clearly the work of a piano-obsessed composer, one who couldn't stop himself writing a huge piano part that's ...

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Twentysomething pianist Konstantin Soukhevitski won first prize in the Hilton Head Piano Competition and has been a semi-finalist in other piano competitions. He gave a debut recital last spring at ...

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A huge standard is set by the many superb recordings of Rachmaninov’s ultra-lyrical Second Symphony. This live performance holds its own well, although it’s preceded by Slatkin’s and the orchestra’s ...

In the Third Symphony, which finds Rachmaninov wistfully recalling the Russia he left after the October Revolution, Petrenko and the RLPO also identify the zest, the orchestral lucidity and the ...

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The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra's all-Rachmaninov concert drew its biggest audience for a while, revealing this music's special ability to speak to our collective heart. But what else would one ...

Live from London’s Barbican Centre, BBC Radio 3 in Concert tonight celebrates 50 years of collaboration between the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Conductor Laureate Sir Andrew Davis. Presented by Martin ...

The Russian cellist Anatoly Brandukov was a best man at Rachmaninov’s wedding in the spring of 1902. He was quite a bit older than the groom, but the two had been close friends for some years, and it ...