The ‘life’ music steadily becomes more tormented ... freeing up the violins to play a soaring new line. Rachmaninov’s superb choral symphony is a setting of a Russian adaptation of a ...

Donald Macleod turns his attention to Rachmaninov's great choral works and explores what inspired the composer while he was writing this music, both in Russia and abroad.

The Swansea Bach Choir popularises choral works with specific concentration on the baroque. The Swansea Bach Choir was formed ...

They peal, too, through Rachmaninov’s great choral symphony The Bells, in music that’s exactly as heartfelt, as gorgeous and as unforgettably tuneful as you’d expect from the composer of Rhapsody on a ...

According to fans of Rachmaninov’s gorgeously melancholic music, the answer is definitely ... i.e. with the eight soloists singing the choral parts as well as their own. The two sopranos Anna ...

In a thrilling concert oscillating between lush sentiment and explosive tension, pianist Lise de la Salle and conductor Diego ...

This was achieved by programming Rachmaninov’s magnificent All-Night Vigil ... after the Revolution of 1917, sacred music was banned by the emerging Soviet authorities. Although not a full-time ...