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Sergei Rachmaninov
Piano Concertos & Paganini Rhapsody

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Concerto 1

Leif Ove Andsnes, Berlin PO/Antonio Pappano	EMI 5181842	review review
Agustin Anievas, New PO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos	EMI 5008712	review review
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink	Decca 4786348	review
Sequeira Costa, Royal PO/Christopher Seaman	Claudio CB60262	review
Sergio Fiorentino, Roma della RAI SO/Carlo Franci	Rhine Classics RH006	review review
Cor de Groot, Hague PO/Willem van Otterloo	Forgotten Records FR602	review
Stephen Hough, Dallas SO/Andrew Litton	Hyperion CDA67501/2	review review review
Byron Janis, Moscow PO/Kirill Kondrashin	Alto ALC6005	review
	Brilliant 9182	review
Peter Katin, London PO/Sir Adrian Boult	Eloquence 4807281	review
	Eloquence 4842284	review
John Lill, BBC Ntl O Wales/Tadaaki Otaka	Nimbus NI1720	review review
Valentina Lisitsa, London SO/Michael Francis	Decca 4784890	review
Noriko Ogawa, Malmö SO/Owain Arwel Hughes	BIS BISCD975	review
Leonard Pennario, Royal PO/André Previn	RCA 19075899272	review
Mikhail Pletnev, Philharmonia O/Libor Pesek	CFP 2282792	review
Sergei Rachmaninov, Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy	BMG-RCA 82876 678922	review
	Pristine Audio PASC544	review
	Vista Vera VVCD00036	review
Sviatoslav Richter, USSR RTV Large SO/Kurt Sanderling	APR 6005	review
	Pristine Audio PASC405	review
Sviatoslav Richter, USSR State SO/Kurt Sanderling	Profil PH13037	review
Yevgeny Sudbin, Singapore SO/Lan Shui	BIS BISSACD2012	review
Daniil Trifonov, Philadelphia O/Yannick Nézet-Séguin	DG 4836617	review
Simon Trpceski, Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko	Avie AV2191	review
Valerie Tryon, Royal PO/Jac Van Steen	Somm SOMMCD0253	review

Concerto 2

Geza Anda, SWR SO Baden-Baden und Freiburg/Hans Rosbaud	Hanssler CD94208	review
Leif Ove Andsnes, Berlin PO/Antonio Pappano	EMI 5181842	review review
	EMI 2175002	review
Agustin Anievas, New PO/Moshe Atzmon	EMI 5008712	review review
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink	Decca 4786348	review
Khatia Buniatishvili, Czech PO/Paavo Järvi	Sony 88985402412	review
Elena Caldine, Russian PO/ Dmitry Yablonsky	Bel Air BAM2040	review
Shura Cherkassky, Gothenburg SO/Sergiu Comissiona	Cembal d'amour CD155	review
Van Cliburn, Moscow PO/Kirill Kondrashin	VAI 4454	review
Van Cliburn, Chciago SO/Fritz Reiner	RCA 82876 613922	review
Sequeira Costa, Royal PO/Christopher Seaman	Claudio CB60272	review
Clifford Curzon, London PO/Sir Adrian Boult	Eloquence 4842284	review
Edith Farnadi, Vienna State Opera O/Hermann Scherchen	Tahra TAH3007-8	review
Anna Fedorova, St. Gallen SO/Modestas Pitrenas	Channel Classics CCS42522	review
Andor Foldes, Berlin PO/Leopold Ludwig	Eloquence 4841256	review
Jean-Paul Gasparian, Bern SO/Stefan Blunier	Claves 50-3004	review
Walter Gieseking, Los Angeles PO/Izler Solomon	Meloclassic MC1041	review review
Boris Giltburg, Royal Scottish Ntl O/Carlos Miguel Prieto	Naxos 8573629	review review
Gary Graffman, Boston SO/Pierre Monteux	Pristine Audio PASC478	review
Hélčne Grimaud, Royal PO/Jesús López-Cobos	Brilliant 9200	review
	Dal Segno DSPRCD063	review
Hélčne Grimaud, Philharmonia O/Vladimir Ashkenazy	Erato 2564622737	review
Cor de Groot, Hague PO/Willem van Otterloo	Forgotten Records FR602	review
	Challenge CC72383	review
Stephen Hough, Dallas SO/Andrew Litton	Hyperion CDA67501/2	review review review
	Hyperion CDA67649	review
Byron Janis, London SO/Antal Dorati	Brilliant 9182	review
Byron Janis, Minneapolis SO/Antal Dorati	Mercury 4706392	review review
Tedd Joselson, Philharmonia O/Arthur Fagen	Signum Classics SIGCD675	review
Eileen Joyce, London PO/Erich Leinsdorf	Eloquence 4826291	review
Peter Katin, New London SO/Colin Davis	Eloquence 4807281	review
Rudolf Kerer, Moscow PSO/Kirill Kondrashin	Doremi DHR8086-90	review review
Alexander Korsantia, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker/Dan Ettinger	Hanssler Classics HC20046	review
Lang Lang, Mariinsky Theatre O/Valery Gergiev	DG 4775499	review
Alicia de Larrocha, Royal PO/Charles Dutoit	Eloquence 4767601	review
Dejan Lazić, London PO/Kirill Petrenko	Channel Classics CCSSA26308	review
John Lill, BBC Ntl O Wales/Tadaaki Otaka	Nimbus NI1720	review review
Valentina Lisitsa, London SO/Michael Francis	Decca 4784890	review
Nikolai Lugansky, City of Birmingham SO/Sakari Oramo	Warner 2564 619462	review
Denis Matsuev, St Petersburg PO/Yuri Temirkanov	Ideale Audience 2075064	review
	Ideale Audience 2075068	review
Benno Moiseiwitsch, Philharmonia O/Hugo Rignold	Guild GHCD2326	review
Nicholas Moog, Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Nicholas Milton	Onyx 4089	review
Vanessa Benelli Mosell, London PO/Kirill Karabits	Decca 4814393	review
Tatiana Nikolayeva, Czech PO/Konstantin Ivanov	Supraphon SU42162	review
Lev Oborin, Radio O/Alexander Gauk	APR 6005	review
John Ogdon, Philharmonia O/Sir John Pritchard	EMI 3927472	review
Jorge Lois Prats, Mexico City PO/Enrique Bátiz	Resonance CDRSN3050	review
Sergei Rachmaninov, Philadelphia O/Leopold Stokowski	RCA 82876 678922	review
	Pristine Audio PASC544	review
	Pristine Audio PASC471	review
	Vista Vera VVCD00021	review
Sviatoslav Richter, Warsaw PO/Stanislaw Wislocki	Alto ALC1175	review
	Alto ALC6005	review
	Documents 600158	review
Sviatoslav Richter, Leningrad PO/Kurt Sanderling	Pristine Audio PASC405	review
	Minuet 428421	review
Artur Rubinstein, NBC SO/Vladimir Golschmann	Naxos 8.111289	review review
Artur Rubinstein, Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy	High Def'n Tape Transfers	review
György Sándor, New York PO/Artur Rodzinski	Sony 19439787752	review
Cyril Smith, Liverpool PO/Malcolm Sargent	Guild GHCD2423	review
	APR 7313	review review review
Yevgeny Sudbin, BBC SO/Sakari Oramo	BIS BIS2338	review
Alexandre Tharaud, Royal Liverpool PO/Alexander Vedernikov	Erato 9029595469	review
Martino Tirimo, London PO/Yoel Levi	Alto ALC1447	review
Nobuyuki Tsujii, Deutsches SO Berlin/Yutaka Sado	Challenge CC72371	review
Daniil Trifonov, Philadelphia O/Yannick Nézet-Séguin	DG 4835335	review review
Simon Trpceski, Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko	Avie AV2192	review
Dinorah Varsi, unspecified orchestra & conductor	Genuin GEN15353	review
Tamás Vásáry, London SO/Yuri Ahronovitch	DG 4190612	review
Anna Vinnitskaya, NDR Elbphilharmonie O/Krzysztof Urbański	Alpha 275	review review
Yuja Wang, Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado	DG 4779308	review
Alexis Weissenberg, Berlin PO/Herbert von Karajan	Warner Classics 2564633624	review
Klára Würtz, Ntl SO Ukraine/Vladimir Sirenko	Brilliant 92293	review review
	Brilliant 95520	review

Concerto 3

Leif Ove Andsnes, Oslo PO/Paavo Berglund	EMI 2376162	review
Leif Ove Andsnes, London SO/Antonio Pappano	EMI 6405162	review
Agustin Anievas, New PO/Aldo Ceccato	EMI 5008712	review review
Martha Argerich, Berlin RSO/Riccardo Chailly	Decca 4782746	review
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink	Decca 4786348	review
Boris Berezovsky, Philharmonia O/Eliahu Inbal	Teldec 2564 664684	review
Yefim Bronfman, Berlin PO/Sir Simon Rattle	Euroarts 2057754	review
Khatia Buniatishvili, Czech PO/Paavo Järvi	Sony 88985402412	review
Shura Cherkassky, Gothenburg SO/Sten Frykberg	Cembal d'amour CD155	review
Van Cliburn, Moscow PO/Kirill Kondrashin	VAI 4454	review
Van Cliburn, Symphony of the Air/Kirill Kondrashin	RCA 82876678942	review
	Praga PRD350123	review
Roberto Cominati, Sydney SO/Janos Furst	Eloquence 4819497	review
Emil Gilels, Société du Conservatoire Paris O/André Cluytens	EMI 3458192	review
Emil Gilels, USSR State SO/Kyrill Kondrashin	Brilliant 92615	review
Emil Gilels, Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy	Doremi DHR8100	review
Bernd Glemer, Ireland Ntl SO/Jerzy Maksymiuk	Brilliant 95520	review
Boris Giltburg, Royal Scottish Ntl O/Carlos Miguel Prieto	Naxos 8573630	review review
Maria Grinberg, unknown O/Karl Eliasberg	Scribendum SC814	review
Moura Lympany, New SO/Anthony Collins	Eloquence 4841467	review review
Marc-André Hamelin, London PO/Vladimir Jurowski	Hyperion CDA68145	review
Vladimir Horowitz, RCA Victor SO/Fritz Reiner	Naxos 8.110787	review review review review
Stephen Hough, Dallas SO/Andrew Litton	Hyperion CDA67501/2	review review review
	Hyperion CDA67649	review
Byron Janis, Minneapolis SO/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski	Brilliant 9182	review
Byron Janis, London SO/Antal Dorati	Alto ALC6005	review
	Mercury 4706392	review review
Andreas Jetter, Philarmonia Moldova/Dietrich Scholler-Manno	Antes BMCD319203	review review
William Kapell, Victorian SO/Sir Bernard Heinze	BMG-RCA 82876 685602	review
Julius Katchen, New SO/Anatole Fistoulari	Pristine PAKM035	review
Julius Katchen, London PO/Adrian Boult	Pristine PASC266	review
Michael Korstick, Janáček PO/Dmitry Liss	Oehms OC1896	review
Monique de La Bruchollerie, Boston SO/Ernest Ansermet	Meloclassic MC1034	review
Alicia de Larrocha, London SO/André Previn	Eloquence 4820725	review
Kurt Leimer, Svizzera Italiana Radio O/Leopold Stokowski	Colosseum COL92052	review
John Lill, BBC Ntl O Wales/Tadaaki Otaka	Nimbus NI1720	review review
Valentina Lisitsa, London SO/Michael Francis	Decca 4784890	review
Nikolai Lugansky, State Academy SO Russia/Ivan Shpiller	Brilliant 92293	review review
Moira Lympany, New SO/Anthony Collins	Eloquence 4829404	review
Denis Matsuev, Lucerne Festival O/Riccardo Chailly	Accentus ACC10487	review
Lev Oborin, USSR State O/Konstantin Ivanov	APR 6005	review
Cecile Ousset, Philharmonia O/Günther Herbig	CFP 2282792	review
Sergei Rachmaninov, Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy	RCA 82876 678922	review
	Pristine Audio PASC544	review
	Vista Vera VVCD00028	review
Grigory Sokolov, BBC PO/Yan Pascal Tortelier	DG 4797015	review review
Cyril Smith, City of Birmingham SO/George Weldon	APR 7313	review review
Yevgeny Sudbin, BBC SO/Sakari Oramo	BIS BIS2338	review
Daniil Trifonov, Philadelphia O/Yannick Nézet-Séguin	DG 4836617	review
Simon Trpceski, Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko	Avie AV2192	review
Yuja Wang, Simón Bolívar SO Venezuela/Gustavo Dudamel	DG 4791304	review review
Nina Yemelyanova, Berlin RSO/Hermann Abendroth	Meloclassic MC1049	review

Concerto 4

Leif Ove Andsnes, London SO/Antonio Pappano	EMI 6405162	review
Agustin Anievas, New PO/Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos	EMI 5008712	review review
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Royal Concertgebouw O/Bernard Haitink	Decca 4786348	review
Vladimir Ashkenazy, London SO/André Previn	Eloquence 4767692	review
Sequeira Costa, Royal PO/Christopher Seaman	Claudio CB60272	review
Anna Fedorova, St. Gallen SO/Modestas Pitrenas	Channel Classics CCS42522	review
Sergio Fiorentino, BBC Scottish SO/Ian Whyte	Rhine Classics RH026	review review
Stephen Hough, Dallas SO/Andrew Litton	Hyperion CDA67501/2	review review
John Lill, BBC Ntl O Wales/Tadaaki Otaka	Nimbus NI1720	review review
Valentina Lisitsa, London SO/Michael Francis	Decca 4784890	review
Nikolai Lugansky, City of Birmingham SO/Sakari Oramo	Warner 2564 619462	review
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, O Filarmonica della RAI di Roma /Franco Caracciolo	Altara ALT1023	review
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Philharmonia O/Ettore Gracis	Alto ALC1175	review
	Alto ALC6005	review
	Warner 2435 672382	review
	Warner 2564615488	review
Noriko Ogawa, Malmö SO/Owain Arwel Hughes	BIS BISCD975	review
Leonard Pennario, Royal PO/André Previn	RCA 19075899272	review
Sergei Rachmaninov, Philadelphia O/Eugene Ormandy	RCA 82876 678922	review
	Pristine Audio PASC544	review
	Vista Vera VVCD00036	review
Yevgeny Sudbin, North Carolina Symphony/Grant Llewellyn	BIS BISSACD1728	review
Daniil Trifonov, Philadelphia O/Yannick Nézet-Séguin	DG 4835335	review review
Simon Trpceski, Royal Liverpool PO/Vasily Petrenko	Avie AV2191	review
Tamás Vásáry, London SO/Yuri Ahronovitch	DG 4190612	review
Yakov Zak, Moscow SO/Kyrill Kondrashin	APR 6005	review

Paganini Rhapsody

Agustin Anievas, New PO/Moshe Atzmon	EMI 5008712	review review
Vladimir Ashkenazy, Philharmonia O/Bernard Haitink	Decca 4786348	review
Tzimon Barto, Schleswig-Holstein Festival O/Christoph Eschenbach	Ondine ODE1230	review
Elisso Bolkvadze, Tbilisi SO/Jansug Kakhidze	Cascavelle VEL3151	review
Elena Caldine, Russian PO/Dmitry Yablonsky	Bel Air BAM2040	review
Shura Cherkassky, Cologne RSO/Zdenek Mácal	ICA Classics ICAC5020	review
Van Cliburn, Moscow PO/Kiril Kondrashin	RCA 09026626952	review
Sequeira Costa, Royal PO/Christopher Seaman	Claudio CB60262	review
Bella Davidovich, Concertgebouw O/Neeme Järvi	Eloquence 4844186	review
Sergio Fiorentino, O Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Vladimir Fedoseyev	Rhine Classics RH006	review review
Stephen Hough, Dallas SO/Andrew Litton	Hyperion CDA67501/2	review review review
Peter Jablonski, Royal PO/Vladimir Ashkenazy	Eloquence 4767671	review
William Kapell, Philadelphia Orchestra/Eugene Ormandy	Marston 530212	review
William Kapell, Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York/Artur Rodzinski	JSP Records JSP684	review
Julius Katchen, London PO/Sir Adrian Boult	Eloquence 4842284	review
Eva Knardahl, Oslo PO/Mariss Jansons	Simax PSC1831	review
Monique de La Bruchollerie, O l’Association des Concerts Colonne/Jonel Perlea	Forgotten Records FR685	review
Lang Lang, Mariinsky Theatre O/Valery Gergiev	DG 4775499	review
John Lill, BBC Ntl O Wales/Tadaaki Otaka	Nimbus NI1720	review review
	Nimbus NI1736	review
Valentina Lisitsa, London SO/Michael Francis	Decca 4784890	review
Benno Moiseiwitsch, BBC SO/Sir Adrian Boult	Testament SBT31509	review
Benno Moiseiwitsch, BBC SO/Malcolm Sargent	Guild GHCD2326	review
Noriko Ogawa, Malmö SO/Owain Arwel Hughes	BIS BISCD975	review
John Ogdon, Philharmonia O/Sir John Pritchard	EMI 3927472	review
Leonard Pennario, Boston Pops O/Arthur Fiedler	RCA 19075899272	review
Jorge Lois Prats, Mexico City PO/Enrique Bátiz	Resonance CDRSN3050	review
Daria Rabotkina, Tatarstan Ntl SO/Alexander Sladkovsky	Concert Artists Guild CAG114	review
Sergei Rachmaninov, Philadelphia O/Leopold Stokowski	RCA 82876 678922	review
	Pristine Audio PASC544	review
	Vista Vera VVCD00021	review
Sergei Rachmaninov, BBC SO/Sir Adrian Boult	Marston 53022	review
Artur Rubinstein, New York PO/Victor De Sabata	Guild GHCD2349	review
Arthur Rubinstein, Philharmonia O/Walter Susskind	Naxos 8.111289	review review
	Documents 600158	review
Vitaly Samoshko, Sydney SO/Edvard Tchivzhel	ABC 4762274	review
	Eloquence 4819497	review
Abbey Simon, Residentie O/Willem van Otterloo	Challenge CC72142	review
Abbey Simon, St Louis SO/Leonard Slatkin	Alto ALC6005	review
Cyril Smith, Philharmonia O/Malcolm Sargent	Guild GHCD2420	review
	APR 7313	review review review
Susan Starr, Philadelphia O/Leopold Stokowski	Testament SBT1513	review review
Yevgeny Sudbin, Singapore SO/Lan Shui	BIS BISSACD1988	review
Martino Tirimo, London PO/Yoel Levi	Alto ALC1447	review
Daniil Trifonov, Philadelphia O/Yannick Nézet-Séguin	DG 4794970	review
Panagiotis Trochopoulos, Belarusian State Academic SO/Marius Stravinsky	Cameo CC9021	review review
Alexander Uninsky, Rundfunk O Hannover des NDR/Willy Steiner	Meloclassic MC1058	review review
Dinorah Varsi, unspecified orchestra & conductor	Genuin GEN15353	review
Tamás Vásáry, London SO/Yuri Ahronovitch	DG 4579062	review
Anna Vinnitskaya, NDR Elbphilharmonie O/Krzysztof Urbański	Alpha 275	review review
Yuja Wang, Mahler CO/Claudio Abbado	DG 4779308	review
Yakov Zak, USSR State SO/Kyrill Kondrashin	APR 6005	review