popular music: Sviatoslav Richter

popular music: Sviatoslav Richter

popular music:

Sviatoslav Richter

Essential Baroque

Decca, 2002

High-quality, marvelously varied intro to baroque music
I am buying this as the perfect gift for Russian and Chinese scientist friends. They have knowledge of classical music but perhaps not much about baroque music, which achieved special popularity in the U.S. during the 1970's and 1980's. Russians seem to have more ...

Mozart /Chopin/Rachmaninov: Richter - Classic Archive

Euroarts, 2008

Richter at the Barbican
This recital was originally broadcast on BBC-TV in 1989. Richter was 74 then but clearly had not lost any of his powers. He had, however, developed some idiosyncrasies that have a bearing on this recording. He was playing this recital, consisting of three Mozart ...

Brahms: Concerto No.2/Beethoven: Sonata No.23

Sviatoslav Richter, Erich Leinsdorf, ...

RCA, 1993

One of the better Brahms concertos - and a nice dessert
In his notebooks, Richter himself tells repeatedly how strongly he disliked this performance of the Brahms Second. Most significantly, he blames Leinsdorf for pushing the tempo all the time. For the rest we have to guess for what his motives could be. After all, it is ...

Liszt: The Two Piano Concertos; The Piano Sonata

Franz Liszt, Kiril Kondrashin

Philips, 1995

Consummate Mastery In The Liszt Concertos
If you are new to the late Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, arguably the greatest all-round keyboard virtuoso of the last century, this is a splendid place to start. And if you are new to Liszt's piano concertos, there is little need to look any farther. Few ...

Great Recordings Of The Century - Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double Concerto / Oistrakh, ...

Mstislav Rostropovich, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

EMI Classics, 1999

Big, Brooding, Boring Beethoven. Excellent Brahms.
This *should* be an excellent rendition of the triple concerto. But when dealing with such an intricate and sophisticated work, mere virtuosity is not enough. In a *triple concerto*, what is required is synergy, harmony, unity. This recording is virtually devoid of ...

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Piano Sonata No. 1

Robert LaMarchina, Johannes Brahms, ...

RCA, 2004

This is the one to own
I was shocked when I first heard this performance of the Brahms Bb major. I had been buying recordings of the piece like they were going out of style but when I heard Richter/Leinsdorf/CSO, it was like I was finally hearing the piece the way that I heard it inside my ...

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

Sergey Rachmaninov, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

A performance that will live as long as recorded music
There is nearly unanimous consensus that Richter's 1959 recording of the Rachmaninov 2nd rises to a height challenged only by the composer himself. Richter's ability to play the fastest passagework while moving from soft to loud and back again is breathtaking--speed ...

Beethoven: Complete Music for Cello & Piano

Maurice Gendron, Mstislav Rostropovich, ...

Philips, 1994

Beethoven would have smiled
Rostroprovich and Richter are poster children for the merits of recording the lesser-known works of past masters. It is astonishing to believe that the Beethoven of, say, Symphonies, 3, 7, and 9 also sat himself down to compose small music like these pieces for two ...

Beethoven for Babies

Ludwig van Beethoven, Frans Brüggen, ...

Philips, 1998

Nicest classical CD I have found for my baby (& me)
This is a very pleasant CD to listen to, and I think the quality of the music is excellent. I enjoy listening to this with my 10 month old son, and we also listen to the radio and lots of modern music. I recently purchased 5 of the classical "Baby Einstein" CDs and I ...

Bach for Babies

Marc Johnson [double bass], Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Philips, 1999

Classical, Jazz and Opera Bach all in one
This is a versatile collection in terms of composition, performance and layout. Comparing to most of CD with classical selections for baby, this edition is more nutritious and rich on musical experience. Genre wise, the piano solo, concerti, chamber and opera are all ...

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concertos 1, 2 & 3 - Prokofiev: Piano Concerto 5 - Bartok: Piano Concerto 2 - Emil Gilels, ...

Bela Bartok, Sergey Prokofiev, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

A classic Tchaikovsky Second Concerto, plus astonishing Richter
The reissue gods are smiling. This bargain Gemini two-fer contains four superlative concerto recordings--the Tchaikovsky Second and Third with Gilels, the Prokofiev Fifth and Bartok Second with Richter. The conductor throughout is Lorin Maazel, definitely on best ...

Britten: Piano Concerto / Violin Concerto

Benjamin Britten, English Chamber Orchestra, ...

Polygram Records, 1989

Older Performances to Rank With The Best
These recordings were the first that I heard of these works, on a London LP from the Fargo Public Library. I took to the Piano Concerto right away, with it's heavy Prokofievian influences. The violin concerto was a harder nut to crack, especially since I was only about ...

The Sofia Recital 1958

Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, ...

Philips, 2001

terrible coughs.
there are two recordings that would've perhaps been much more appreciated had there not been several people who coughed their way through the entire concert. the furtwangler 1942 recording of Beethoven's sixth symphony and this one. jesus. i'm not one to complain ...

Icon (14 CDs)

Sviatoslav Richter

EMI Classics, 2008

Richter's complete EMI recordings
This 14 CD set contains all Sviatoslav Richter's recordings for EMI. For any Richter fan, this is self-recommending. You may wish to skip to the last paragraph for buying suggestion and check out the track listing at the end. For the new-comers, if you have never ...

Schumann: Piano Concerto / Sviatoslav Richter

Robert Schumann, Stanislaw Wislocki, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 1996

Genious^2
First thing first. If you are willing to listen to something from Schumann, the piano Concerto is always a good choice. Well, in fact, there are only a few Concerti which importance and beauty can be compared to this one. Then to the pianist,... The Pianist!! I ...