Of course, the listener can tell the Handel Suites played by Andrei Gavrilov from the Handel Suites played by Sviatoslav Richter. Gavrilov's Suites are superbly played, thoughtfully performed, and persuasively interpreted. Richter's Suites, however, are supremely well played, penetratingly performed, and profoundly interpreted. Gavrilov's Suites ...
As if the title -- The #1 Piano Album -- wasn't enough of a claim, the subtitle goes even further: "The best-loved piano works of all time." Of course it seems impossible to deliver on that statement even with two 75-minute-plus compact discs. But as the discs go rolling by -- as Uchida's elegantly turned interpretation of the opening Allegro of ...
The good news -- no, make that the great news -- is that this two-disc set brings together the two best Russian pianists of the second half of the twentieth century in performances of some of the best works in the piano concerto repertoire. With the Olympian Emil Gilels barnstorming his way through Tchaikovsky's fabulously difficult First Concerto ...
This set of recordings made in 1963 by cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and pianist Sviatoslav Richter of Beethoven's cello sonatas are the most virtuosic, the most lyrical, the most dramatic, the most expressive, the most intense, the most ecstatic, and, in a word, the greatest ever recorded. From the Empfindung style of the Op. 5 sonatas through ...
This two-disc set of Handel's Suites performed by Andrei Gavrilov and Sviatoslav Richter is just as good as their other two-disc set of Handel's Suites but with one big advantage. Here as there, Handel's Suites are models of wit, sensitivity, affection and virtuosity. Here as there, Gavrilov's performances are fluent, muscular, and persuasive and ...
If you're looking for the best-performed, best-recorded, best-coupled version of Dvorák's magnificent Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81, look no further. Although some might argue that the performance is too Russian, the playing of the Borodin Quartet and Sviatoslav Richter is so strong, so soulful, and so consummately musical that calling it too ...
With its magnificent and magisterial performances by Sviatoslav Richter, one would have imagined that this 1970 recording of the First Book of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier would be on the shelf of everyone who reveres Richter and worships Bach. But, in fact, they're not and the simple reason for it is that Richter's performances sound like they ...
It's a wonderful treat to find an album whose interest rests equally on its musical as well as historical merits. As such, the present two-disc sets of the complete Rachmaninoff concertos and Paganini Rhapsody cannot be beat. The three pianists heard here -- Richter, Zak, and Oborin -- represent the pinnacle of postwar Russian pianists. Richter is ...
Who wants to hear all of Tchaikovsky's solo piano music? Enthusiasts and pedants only -- for most folks, there's too much salon music and not enough sublime music to warrant the kind of completist attention given to, say, Chopin's solo piano music. But if what you really want to hear is just the best of Tchaikovsky's solo piano music, the disc you ...
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