Sviatoslav Richter

[Peregrine]

There aren't too many. I only have the Waltz Op.34/3 from Moscow, 1950 (Ankh) and it's an absolute gem.

Agreed.

Here it is -

http://www.mediafire.com/?zeijmmyxz24

[Dancing Divertimentian]

It's good that I am not hungry for more Richter at the moment. 

You and me both! It's the age-old dilemma: never enough Richter but saturation point is imminent!

If they would JUST split the set up! All I really want are a few nuggets...

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Agreed.

Here it is -

http://www.mediafire.com/?zeijmmyxz24

Cool! Thanks for taking the time to do that.

[George]

Agreed.

Here it is -

http://www.mediafire.com/?zeijmmyxz24

Thanks!

Anyone know which browser still supports mediafire? I tried Firefox and Internet Explorer and both send back an error message that reads: "your browser does not support mediafire." WTF!? 

EDIT: must have been a temporary problem. All is well now, And that Richter Waltz is stunning! Thanks again, Peregrine! 

[Mandryka]

I just listened to the Waltz Opus 70/3 from the Music and Arts Helsinki Recital. Very characterful -- I suspect he takes it as fast as Kocsis. But Richter is rather more forceful than Kocsis I think.

Not a performance for genteel ladies to dance to.

[Peregrine]

Cool! Thanks for taking the time to do that.

And that Richter Waltz is stunning! Thanks again, Peregrine! 

No worries!

Not a performance for genteel ladies to dance to.

Nope!

[George]

Nope!

I suspect he wasn't playing for the ladies anyway.  0:)

[Holden]

New 14 CD set: Richter in Hungary

Link Here Click on this image when you get to the page -

I am not sure if any/all of this has been released before. These performances do not appear on Trovar, but that discography only covers CDs released in the pianist's lifetime.

The link doesn't work

[George]

The link doesn't work

Sorry to hear that. It works fine for me and unfortunately it's the only one that I have.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Sorry to hear that. It works fine for me and unfortunately it's the only one that I have.

The link is working fine on this end.

[Renfield]

Sorry to hear that. It works fine for me and unfortunately it's the only one that I have.

Here's another one, where you can even buy it!

[Mandryka]

I have been playing late Richter a lot recently.

There's

• A Mozart recital from the Barbican on Philips which is very special for the K310 and K545 (1989)
• Ravel's Valses on Live Classics  and a super recital on the same label with some late Brahms and a selection of short Bach pieces (1994)
• And may be best of all a Salzburg recital on Orfeo (1977 – late enough I guess to count (?)) with one of the most interesting Chopin Barcarolles and First Scherzos I know – in fact all that Orfeo disc is pretty special (there's a great Suite Bergamasque too).

Of course some of the best Richer records are earlier. In Liszt and  Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Schubert and Prokofiev.

But I think he found a special affinity for Mozart in those later years, and maybe Bach and Chopin too. And his presentation of them – austere, stoical – is rather to my tastes. I find the Chopin on that Orfeo disc from the seventies at least as valuable and at least as deep as  the 1950 Moscow Chopin recital on Preiser.

And in some other composers –the 1977  Debussy on Orfeo , for example – when I hear Richter I have a real sense of a  pianist  who is trying to get to the bottom of the music, to grapple with the music at a deep level.

[George]

Mandryka - Have you heard Richter's Debussy preludes on BBC? They are magnificent!

[Franco]

For anyone who has this set:



Have you noticed audio problems?  The Schubert D. 990 has a weird doubling going on when I played it recently from my iTunes.

I'm trying to figure out if the problem is the disk or the transfer.

[George]

Have you noticed audio problems?  The Schubert D. 990 has a weird doubling going on when I played it recently from my iTunes.

I'm trying to figure out if the problem is the disk or the transfer.

I can check later, but I know that that set had some weird sound issues.

[Renfield]

• And may be best of all a Salzburg recital on Orfeo (1977 – late enough I guess to count (?)) with one of the most interesting Chopin Barcarolles and First Scherzos I know – in fact all that Orfeo disc is pretty special (there's a great Suite Bergamasque too).
  

Yes, that one is special; and personal, intimate. If I was to pick a single Richter disc to keep, it would probably be between that one and the one with the Liszt sonata from the Richter: The Master series.

In fact, between you and me (and the rest of the forum, and the entire internet), I am rarely as convinced of the structural stature of Debussy's piano music, as in the bergamasque from that recital.

[George]

Yes, that one is special; and personal, intimate. If I was to pick a single Richter disc to keep, it would probably be between that one and the one with the Liszt sonata from the Richter: The Master series.

In fact, between you and me (and the rest of the forum, and the entire internet), I am rarely as convinced of the structural stature of Debussy's piano music, as in the bergamasque from that recital.

OK, that's all I needed to hear. Just ordered me a copy. 

[Mandryka]

OK, that's all I needed to hear. Just ordered me a copy. 

You won't be sorry. I just played it again after making that post, and I compared the Debussy Estampes on it with the recording on DG made in the early 60s.

More colour on DG -- but the Orfeo one is much more intense and somehow, in a way I can't explain, less superficial.

I also compared the Barcarole on the 1977 Orfeo with the early 60s one on BBC Legends, and IMO exactly the same points apply.

All the Chopin on that record is extraordinary -- the Waltzes have such a sadness about them, like no other waltz recordings I can think of.

When does "Late Richter" start? Didn't he get ill and stop giving concerts for a while? And then he returned to play small venues? When did that return happen?

[Peregrine]

OK, that's all I needed to hear. Just ordered me a copy. 

Me too!

[George]

When does "Late Richter" start?

I am not sure. I don't tend to think of his career in that way. I generally love his stuff from the 60s and 70s most of all though.