Throughout the week Classic FM’s presenters bring you the best new recordings, including world exclusives and premiere broadcasts of latest releases. This week: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 1 by ...

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 ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Piano Concerto No 1 in F minor, Op. 1, Rachmaninoff, piano, Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy (rec. 1940). Sony/RCA Byron Janis, piano, Moscow Philharmonic ...

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 ...

Rachmaninov’s First Symphony of 1895 is a tricky work to bring off. The composer never got around to revising it, though he expressed an inclination to do so, and it has remained one of those ...