Precision in passion From: The Evening Standard (London, England) | Date: May 17, 1999| Author: | Copyright 1999 Evening Standard - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Philharmonia Orchestra/Rachmaninoff ** Royal Festival Hall

R ACHMANINOFF, like Puccini, has done well out of the war of taste. If modernism had delivered on its brave new world, would works like the Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini or the one-act opera Francesca da Rimini (the second and much rarer work in last night's Philharmonia programme) seem quite so superficially delicious? Rachmaninoff's Paganini variations display unerring skill, and contain just enough touches of dramatic diversion, like the Dies Irae reference.

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