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Sviatoslav Richter Special Edition Box Set | Melodiya MELCD1002270

Sviatoslav Richter Special Edition Box Set

Label: Melodiya

Cat No: MELCD1002270

Barcode: 4600317022700

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 50

Release Date: 11th December 2015

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Artists

Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Nina Dorliak (soprano)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Natalia Gutman (cello)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Marina Vorozhtsova (flute)
Konstantin Mikhailov (flute)
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Oleg Kagan (violin)
Anton Ginsburg (piano)
Bolshoi Theatre Quartet
Grand Academic Choir of All-Union National Radio Service and Central Television Networks
Soloists Ensemble of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Chamber Ensemble of Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Evgeny Svetlanov
Yuri Nikolaevsky
Kirill Kondrashin
Rudolf Barshai

Artists

Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Nina Dorliak (soprano)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Natalia Gutman (cello)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Marina Vorozhtsova (flute)
Konstantin Mikhailov (flute)
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Oleg Kagan (violin)
Anton Ginsburg (piano)
Bolshoi Theatre Quartet
Grand Academic Choir of All-Union National Radio Service and Central Television Networks
Soloists Ensemble of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra
Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Chamber Ensemble of Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Evgeny Svetlanov
Yuri Nikolaevsky
Kirill Kondrashin
Rudolf Barshai

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For Sviatoslav Richter's 100th anniversary, Firma Melodiya presents its biggest project in its 50 year history.

The name of Sviatoslav Richter is inscribed in gold in the history of music. He was not just 'more than a pianist', he was even more than a musician. An owner of composing, conducting, artistic, directing and acting gifts, a connoisseur of literature, arts and philosophy, with a will of iron he made all his gifts serve the art of pianism.

An “artist of planetary scale”, as one of the critics put it, Richter was like that in everything – in his unbounded repertoire that he never stopped replenishing until his last years, in his priestly frenzy of hours long rehearsals, in the geography and number of performances – over 3500 concerts in 770 places of the world for 55 years of his musical career!

And now, Firma Melodiya makes a unique present for both sophisticated experts and a broad circle of music lovers – a 50-CD set of Sviatoslav Richter’s concert recordings!

It has to be understood that this collection is far from the complete phonographic legacy of the great musician. Nevertheless, the set includes plenty of exclusive, previously unreleased recordings that will make the hearts of even most erudite connoisseurs and collectors rejoice. Most of the featured recordings are broadcasts from the concerts played in Moscow in 1962 to 1983. However, the exceptions are of special interest.

These are:
• one of the first Sviatoslav Richter’s extant concert programmes
• recording of the concert with Nina Dorliak in Bucharest, in 1958
• recordings of “home” rehearsals with Nina Dorliak

There are numerous piano pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Prokofiev, a few works by Haydn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Scriabin, and the first volume of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. Among the rarely performed ones, we should note Dvořák’s piano concerto and Franck’s chamber ensembles.

The set includes recordings of many of Richter’s ensemble performances with the likes of David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yuri Bashmet, Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, the Borodin Quartet, the USSR Bolshoi Theatre String Quartet, the singer Nina Dorliak and others. The piano concertos played by Richter are conducted by some of the best Soviet conductors such as Kirill Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov and Rudolf Barshai.

Contents:
CD 1

December 8, 1949
Franz Schubert: Sonata No.21
Franz Schubert–Franz Liszt: Erlkönig
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

CD 2
Home rehearsal / Concert in Bucharest on March 24, 1958
Songs by Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy, Ernest Chausson, Maurice Ravel, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Jean-Baptiste Weckerlin, Manuel de Falla
Nina Dorliak (soprano), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 3
September 24, 1960
Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in C major
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No.3
Frédéric Chopin: Scherzo No.4
Robert Schumann: 3 Novelletten from Op.21

CD 4
September 24, 1960
Claude Debussy: Pieces
Studio recording, 1956
César Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
The Bolshoi Theatre Quartet

CD 5
May 28, 1967
Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2
May 8, 1962
Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo for Piano and Orchestra
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin

CD 6
May 8, 1962
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 3
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin

CD 7
October 10, 1965
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 17, 18, 27, 28

CD 8
December 30, 1964
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.2
Alexander Scriabin: Piano Sonata No.7
Maurice Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales

CD 9
October 10, 1965
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31
December 30, 1964
Maurice Ravel: Pieces
Sergey Rachmaninov: Étude-tableau, Op.39 No.3
Johannes Brahms: Rhapsody in G minor

CD 10
May 18, 1976
Paul Hindemith: Violin Sonata in C major
Oleg Kagan (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Alban Berg: Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin
Oleg Kagan (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Chamber Ensemble of Moscow Conservatory / Yuri Nikolaevsky

CD 11
May 2, 1966
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos 2, 4, 6

CD 12
October 27, 1975
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in A major
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 2, 4, 5
Oleg Kagan (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 13
June 1, 1983
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Pieces
Sergey Rachmaninov: Three Études-tableaux from Op.33
Sergey Rachmaninov: Five Études-tableaux from Op.39

CD 14
June 2, 1983
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Pieces
Sergey Rachmaninov: Three Études-tableaux from Op.33
Sergey Rachmaninov: Five Études-tableaux from Op.39

CD 15
October 18, 1978
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 11, 13

CD 16
May 2, 1978
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos 18 & 6

CD 17
May 2, 1978
Franz Schubert: Pieces
October 18, 1978
Franz Schubert: Pieces
May 3, 1978
Franz Schubert: Pieces

CD 18
March 30, 1972
Ludwig van Beethoven: Triple Concerto in C major
David Oistrakh (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin
May 21, 1961
Antonín Dvořák: Piano Concerto in G minor
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin

CD 19
September 18, 1983
César Franck: Piano Trio in F-sharp minor
Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Oleg Kagan (violin), Natalia Gutman (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 20
October 10, 1976
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.1
Robert Schumann: Faschingsschwank aus Wien
Frédéric Chopin: Pieces

CD 21
October 10, 1976
Frédéric Chopin: Pieces
Claude Debussy: Pieces
Sergey Rachmaninov: Prelude, Op.32 No.12
September 18, 1983
Claude Debussy: Pieces

СD 22
October 16, 1976
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 1, 7, 9, 12

CD 23
May 12, 1967
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.22
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.5
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin

CD 24
September 12, 1967
Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto in D major
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra / Evgeny Svetlanov
April 3, 1972
Alexander Scriabin: Prometheus
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Grand Academic Choir of All-Union National Radio Service and Central Television Networks, USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra / Evgeny Svetlanov

CD 25
May 26, 1967
Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in E major
Frédéric Chopin: Ballade No.1
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes
Claude Debussy: Préludes (Book 2)

CD 26
March 29, 1972
Béla Bartók: Violin Sonata No.1
Sergey Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No.1
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 27
March 29, 1972
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.2
Franz Schubert: Andantino from Grand Duo
Ludwig van Beethoven: Rondo from Violin Sonata No.1
December 28, 1968
César Franck: Violin Sonata in A major
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 28
December 28, 1968
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.3
Franz Schubert: Grand Duo
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio molto espressivo from Violin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No.6
Ludwig van Beethoven: Scherzo from Violin Sonata No.5
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 29
May 6, 1970
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Nos 1, 3, 10
Ludwig van Beethoven: Scherzo from Violin Sonata No.5
Ludwig van Beethoven: Adagio molto espressivo from Violin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No.6
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 30
May 3, 1969
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata No.6
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.3
Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Sonata
David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 31
April 20, 1969
Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludes and Fugues Nos 1–12
from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

CD 32
April 21, 1969
Johann Sebastian Bach: Preludes and Fugues Nos 13–24
from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1

CD 33
December 12, 1968
Robert Schumann: Bunte Blätter
Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Claude Debussy: Cloches à travers les feuilles

CD 34
October 10, 1971
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 27, 28, 30, 31
Johannes Brahms: Pieces

CD 35
October 6, 1971
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No.19
Johannes Brahms: Four Pieces from Op.116
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturnes, Op.15

CD 36
January 12, 1975
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 4

CD 37
January 12, 1975
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32
Ludwig van Beethoven: Bagatelle in G major
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in B major
Richard Wagner: Elegie
October 6, 1971
Claude Debussy: Pieces
Sergey Rachmaninov: Preludes

CD 38
December 22, 1968
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.17
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra / Rudolf Barshai
April 9, 1972
Alban Berg: Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments
Oleg Kagan (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Soloists Ensemble of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Rudolf Barshai

CD 39
May 27, 1973
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.14
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Soloists Ensemble of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra / Rudolf Barshai

CD 40
January 9, 1977
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.18
January 10, 1977
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.18
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin

CD 41
December 22, 1974
Nikolai Myaskovsky: Piano Sonata No.3
Dmitri Shostakovich: Four Preludes and Fugues from Op.87
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.8

CD 42
March 25, 1978
Johann Sebastian Bach: Clavier Concerto No.1
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Chamber Ensemble of Moscow Conservatory / Yuri Nikolaevsky
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Clavier, 2 Flutes and Strings No.6
Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Marina Vorozhtsova (flute), Konstantin Mikhailov (flute)
Chamber Ensemble of Moscow Conservatory / Yuri Nikolaevsky
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.5
Sviatoslav Richter (piano), Marina Vorozhtsova (flute), Oleg Kagan (violin)
Chamber Ensemble of Moscow Conservatory / Yuri Nikolaevsky

CD 43
December 28, 1976
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No.27
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra / Kirill Kondrashin
March 28, 1973
Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra / Rudolf Barshai

CD 44
September 26, 1982
Dmitri Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano
Yuri Bashmet (viola), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 45
May 13, 1985
Joseph Haydn: Piano Sonata in B-flat major (Partita)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Johannes Brahms: Violin Sonata No.1
Dmitri Shostakovich: Violin Sonata
Oleg Kagan (violin), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

CD 46
December 21, 1980
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 6, 7, 17

CD 47
December 21, 1980
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.18
Frédéric Chopin: Etude in C minor Revolutionary
May 28, 1964
Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata No.6
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
January 8, 1959
Franz Liszt: Concerto Pathétique
Anton Ginsburg (first piano), Sviatoslav Richter (second piano)

CD 48
January 8, 1959
Johannes Brahms: Piano Sonata No.2
Johannes Brahms: Four Pieces, Op.119
Karol Szymanowski: Piano Sonata No.2

CD 49
May 28, 1964
Franz Schubert: Three Pieces, D.946
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Variations sérieuses
Johannes Brahms: Pieces

CD 50
June 8, 1979
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.9
Sergey Prokofiev: Pieces
June 9, 1979
Sergey Prokofiev: Five Pieces from Cinderella

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