Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Richter – Schubert: Piano Sonata No.3 D664 & No.21 D960 (2012)
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Richter conquered Paris with this kind of Schubert scores. The last and immense Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat major, D 960 (1828) stayed a long time in his repertoire chasing the ‘small’, once faciend sonatas. He captures the brillant ambiguity of these serie of exclamations, more a cycle of irmpromptus than a real sonata dixit Beethoven, its strict architecture opposing its instinctive imaginativness. Richter exudes overwhelming charm of an isolated Impomptu before respecting the post mozartian baroau approach in the 1819 small A major Sonata D 664.

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Sviatoslav Richter – Rachmaninov: Etudes-Tableaux (2014)
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This romantic programme juxtaposes the best piano solo pieces of Rachmaninov, selected by Richter himself, and charms with his old-fashionioned and romantic Russian approach, with elegance, energy and virtuosity, an irresistible balance between secret humour, power and native melancholy. Before him, only Vladimir Sofronitzky risked such modernity, now….

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Sviatoslav Richter – Franz Liszt: Piano Recital 2 (2015)
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A first volume (PRD/DSD 350 078) presented some among the most famous works by the ‘Hungarian’ pianist-composer. This last volume proposes more mysterious pages,‘Mephistophelean’with their dancing flavors, their satanic, doleful, gloomy, or oblivious aspects and with indelible threnodies. An unusual Richter’s program.

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Sviatoslav Richter – Franz Liszt: Piano Recital 1 (2014)
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Virtuoso, fascinating, Richter charms with his old fashion or atonal approach, Haydn or Prokofiev like sense of humor, then sharply addresses the listener in unrivalled Feux follets or Wilde Jagd.

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Sviatoslav Richter – Chopin: Ballades, Etudes, Nocturnes, Polonaise-Fantasie (2012)
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‘Chopin’s workswere a trigger. I was totally moved listening to my father playing the Notturno No.5 and I choose music for life [and not painting]‘. As early as 1948 Richter recorded a Polonaise Op.25 no.1, and in 1950 the Ballade No.2 Op.38, fewStudies . . . Avowed enemy of integrals the present programme is a fabulous example of his choices, excluding tha famous Funeral Sonata ,Walzes, First Piano Concerto . . ., leaving these to Gilels‘far better than him’his point of view!

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Sviatoslav Richter – Beethoven IV – Piano Sonatas Nos. 3, 7, 12, 22 (2013)
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This original programme abruptly juxtaposes early sonatas, based on the models provided by Haydn, with the impatience of Sonata No.22. This longforgotten diptych, as brief and adventurous as it is essential owing to its modernism, foreshadows the return to Bach, given a new treatment by Reger and Berg. Svjatoslav Richter charms with his Haydn-like sense of humor, then sharply addresses the listener in the Opus 54.

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Sviatoslav Richter – Beethoven I – Piano Sonatas Nos. 27, 28, 29 (2012)
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The genius of Richter, reducing by the variety of his legato an audience, in a concert hall, where an ominous silence is induced by so many holding their breath, to avoid missing the last largo evolving an irresistible allegro risoluto. A legendary ‘Hammerklavier’.

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Sviatoslav Richter – Beethoven II – Piano Sonatas Nos. 23, 17, 18 (2012)
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Svjatoslav Richter created a stir in New York in the fall of 1960 by justifying Romain Rolland’s judgement of the Appassionata, i.e. ‘a flood of fire in a bed of granite’. A true selfportrait of the artist according to the critics, amazed by his violent and tragical vision in contrast with the one of the 18 Sonata, pastoral and sober. He adored this old fashioned suite, without any slow movement, allying the baroque Morart to the Schumanian forest. He amazes in the famous Tempest more an intimate reflexion than a Shakesperian wrathful fury.

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