These concertos span Rachmaninov's career, from his farewell to Russia (the piano concerto No 1 of 1891) to his uneasy exile in the new world, where he encountered 1920s jazz and big bands but wrote ...

There's a special reason for pairing these two Russian piano concertos; not only were Rachmaninov and Nikolai Medtner life-long friends, but they dedicated the works, both composed in the mid-1920s, ...

With Yevgeny Sudbin’s scintillating interpretation of Skriabin’s Piano Concerto still resonating in the memory after his London performance of it last month, this CD brings together two other works ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Michael Francis, Conductor Valentina Lisitsa, Piano London Symphony Orchestra Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 London Symphony Orchestra Valentina Lisitsa, ...

There are so many heart-stopping moments in these interpretations, but one of the most poignant is that short, inspired passage in the slow movement of the Fourth Concerto, an artless, chromatically ...

Pianist Peter Donohoe is relishing the chance to work with a top Russian orchestra tackling their countryman’s hardest work Pianist Peter Donohoe is relishing the chance to work with a top Russian ...

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 Anna Fedorova, Piano St Gallen Symphony Orchestra Modestas Pitrenas, Conductor Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 Anna Fedorova, Piano St Gallen Symphony ...

Pianist Simon Trpceski is joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko, in this compelling coupling of Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 4. Trpceski captures the mood ...

Andsnes first recorded the Third Concerto 15 years ago with the Oslo Philharmonic, also on EMI. Here the London Symphony Orchestra under Antonio Pappano are more in tune with the dark Romantic sweep ...