We begin the hour with one of Sergei Rachmaninoff's most famous tunes, his Vocalise. It's an orchestral arrangement, played by the Detroit Symphony, conducted by Neeme Jarvi. (Chandos 9261) ...

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 ...

The "Paganini of the trumpet" explores the romantic side of music with Russian vocal repertoire. Sergei Nakariakov plays Rachmaninov's "Vocalise" and "Not the wind, blowing from the heights," by ...

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 ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise, one of the pieces featured in this year’s Nancy D. Hawk Memorial Day Concert, includes no words but features a soprano soloist singing a single vowel sound of her ...

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 ...

Sarah Devonald recommends a recording of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 3 in A minor from among available versions. A gap of nearly three decades separates Rachmaninoff's Third Symphony from its ...

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 ...