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Richter - Richter Plays Schubert Live: Box Set 4CDs (2014)

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Richter - Richter Plays Schubert Live: Box Set 4CDs (2014)

Richter - Richter Plays Schubert Live: Box Set 4CDs (2014)
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 649 Mb
Label: Melodiya | Release Year: 2014

The first time I heard him play was at the Moscow Conservatory in May 1957, and he opened his programme with the last of Schuberts sonatas. Its a very long sonata, one of the longest ever written, in fact, and Richter played it at the slowest tempo Ive ever heard. I think at this point its appropriate to confess… Im not really addicted to most of Schuberts music. I find myself unable to come to terms with the repetitive structure, and I get very restless and squirm when I have to sit through one of the longer Schubert essays. What happened was that, for the next hour, I was in a state that I can only compare to a hypnotic trance. All my prejudices about Schuberts repetitive structures were forgotten. Musical details which Id previously considered ornamental were given the appearance of organic elements. In fact, I can remember many of those details to this day. It seemed to me that I was witnessing a union of two supposedly irreconcilable qualities. Intense analytical calculation revealed through a spontaneity akin to improvisation. And I realized at that moment, as I have on many subsequent occasions while listening to Richters recordings, I was in the presence of one of the most powerful communicators the world of music has produced in our time (Glenn Gould). Firma Melodiya has compiled its first album for the 100th anniversary of Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter from works by Franz Schubert, a composer whose music accompanied Sviatoslav Richter throughout his artistic career (he learnt the Wanderer Fantasie before he entered the conservatory, and the Sonata in five parts, D. 459, was the last piece that Richter worked on in his country house at the end of July 1997 and hoped to play during the forthcoming concert season).
Tracklist:
Disc 1
Sonata No. 6 in E minor, D. 566
1 I. Moderato – 7.19
2 II. Allegretto – 6.55
3 III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace – 5.45
4 IV. Rondo, D. 506 – 5.27
Sonata No. 11 in F minor, D. 625
5 I. Allegro – 6.46
6 II. Scherzo. Allegretto – 4.32
7 III. Adagio, D. 505 – 4.03
8 IV. Allegro – 6.03
Sonata No. 13 in A major, D. 664
9 I. Allegro moderato – 11.42
10 II. Andante – 5.48
11 III. Allegro – 6.39

Recorded at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on October 18, 1978

Disc 2
Sonata No. 18 in G major, D. 894
1 I. Molto moderato e cantabile – 25.27
2 II. Andante – 7.24
3 III. Menuetto. Allegro moderato – 4.06
4 IV. Allegretto – 13.20
Sonata No. 6 in E minor, D. 566
5 I. Moderato – 7.03
6 II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace – 5.38
7 III. Allegretto – 7.27

Recorded at the Grand Hall
of the Moscow Conservatory on May 2, 1978

Disc 3
Sonata No. 9 in B major, D. 575
1 I. Allegro ma non troppo – 8.26
2 II. Andante – 5.28
3 III. Scherzo. Allegretto – 6.03
4 IV. Allegro giusto – 4.43
Sonata No. 19 in C minor, D. 958
5 I. Allegro – 11.32
6 II. Adagio – 8.22
7 III. Menuetto. Allegro – 3.37
8 IV. Allegro – 8.48

Recorded at the Grand Hall of the Moscow
Conservatory on June 8, 1979 (1–4), October 6, 1971 (5–8)

Disc 4
1 Scherzo No. 2 in D flat major, D. 593 – 6.05
2 Andante in A major, D. 604 – 4.46
3 4 Landlers from D. 366 in the order: D. 366/1 A major – D. 366/3 A minor – D. 366/5 A
minor – D. 366/4 A minor – D. 366/5 – D. 366/4 – D. 366/1 – 5.36
4 Allegretto in C minor, D. 915 – 7.16
Moments musicaux, D. 780
5 No. 1 Moderato, C major – 5.38
6 No. 3 Allegro moderato, F minor – 2.04
7 No. 6 Allegretto, A flat major – 12.00
8 2 Ecossaises from D. 734 and 4 Ecossaises from
D. 421 in the order: D. 734/1 A minor – D. 734/2
A major – D. 734/1 – D. 734/2 – D. 421/1 A flat major –
D. 421/3 E flat major – D. 421/1 – D. 421/2 А flat major – D. 421/1 – D. 421/6 A flat
major – 2.54
9 2 German Dances from D. 790 in the order: D. 790/8
A flat minor – D. 790/11 А flat major – D. 790/8 – 2.58
10 Impromptu in G flat major, D. 899/3 – 7.02
11 March in E major, D. 606 – 4.47
12 Impromptu in E flat major, D. 899/2 – 4.39
13 Impromptu in A flat major, D. 899/4 – 7.43

Recorded at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on May 2, 1978 (1–7), October 18,
1978 (8–10), May 3, 1978 (11–13)
Richter - Richter Plays Schubert Live: Box Set 4CDs (2014)