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ID: MELCD1002030 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: Piano Johann Sebastian Bach’s cycle of preludes and fugues The Well-Tempered Clavier takes a very special place in the world of music. It is not just one of the immortal masterpieces of the world music literature. It literally is an encyclopedia of polyphonic art, its Alpha and Omega; it is a desk book of every thinking musician, a necessary manual for life, and at the same time an inexhaustible source of pleasure. Bach finished the second part of The Well-Tempered Clavier in 1744, twenty years after he created the first part. The reason for composing the send part was his wish to collect in one book the preludes and fugues he wrote at different time and lost among old papers. Bach also wanted to substantially rework these preludes and fugues, give them their final form applying the experience he gained through the years. And that was a truly all-bracing experience. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier gives plenty of play to very different performer’s interpretations. None of the significant music works has caused as many difficulties and debates about the way it should be interpreted. Such a deep, comprehensive and truly artistic approach to the cycle is typical of Sviato- slav Richter. “When I set to The Well-Tempered Clavier, I get always consumed with desire not to exclude any sides for the sake of one narrow and dogmatic position… I am convinced that Bach can be played differently, with different articulation and different dynamics. So long as the whole is preserved, so long as the strict contours of style are not distorted, so long as the performance is convincing enough”, Richter said. |
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ID: MELCD1001931 CDs: 5 Type: CD |
Collection: Violin Concerto Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra "On stage, Oistrakh produces an impression of a colossus. He firmly stands on the ground, he holds his violin proudly, and he creates music that finds expression in an endless stream of beauty and grace", wrote the great violin player Isaac Stern. Among the numerous famous performers the 20th century gave to the world, David Oistrakh ranks especially high. "… one of the really great violinists of our time. Oistrakh is great not because he is a virtuoso, but because he is a genuine, inspired musician," wrote the press during his first coming to the United States in 1955. Oistrakh had to play the very first concert of that tour on the same day with performances of Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman (Joseph Szigeti played on the same day at another venue in New York). Fritz Kreisler who was in the house expressed his admiration for Oistrakh after the concert. Firma Melodiya presents a set of recordings by the great musician of this country. Oistrakh recorded violin concertos by Bach, Mozart, Viotti, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvorak, and Taneyev in the 1950s and 1960s in the prime of his performing career jointly with some of the best conductors of the previous century such as Nikolai Malko, Herbert von Karajan, Alexander Gauk, Kirill Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The performances of Brahms's and Franck's sonatas by David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter also featured in this set once was unanimously recognized by domestic and foreign audiences as one of the best achievements of the 20th century in the field of chamber music.
CD 1
David Oistrakh, violin
Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Malko, conductor
Total time: 77:08
CD 2
David Oistrakh, violin
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Total time: 70:59
CD 3
David Oistrakh, violin and Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Total time: 72:24
CD 4
David Oistrakh, violin
USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Gauk, conductor
Total time: 72:44
CD 5
David Oistrakh, violin
Philadelphia Orchestra - Eugene Ormandy
London Philharmonic Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Total time: 69:21 |
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ID: MELCD1001677 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano |
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ID: MELCD1001993 CDs: 4 Type: CD |
Collection: Piano Concerto Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra Svetlanov was unanimously recognised as the best interpreter of Scriabin’s music. This is a complete collection of Scriabin’s symphonic works and includes Prometheus for piano, choir and orchestra with the world renowned pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
Scriabin:
Symphony No. 1 in E major -L. Avdeeva (mezzo), A. Grigoriev (tenor), The Republican Choir Kapella
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 43 'The Divine Poem'
Symphony No. 4 - 'Le Poème de l'extase', Op. 54 -Y. Krivosheyev (violin), Heinrich Fridheim (violin)
Reverie, Op. 24
Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Op. 60 -Sviatoslav Richter (piano) ,The USSR State Radio and Television Big Choir
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USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov |
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ID: MELCD1002064 CDs: 5 Type: CD |
Collection: Piano Concerto Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra Box set
"Richter is a pianist of surprising internal concentration. At times it seems the whole process of musical performance takes place inside him," wrote a foreign reviewer. Firma Melodiya offers its listeners a set of recordings by the great pianist of the 20th century Sviatoslav Richter, which reflects his diverse performing interests. The history of piano music does not seem to know any time intervals, ages or schools that Richter left outside his pianistic orbit. Bach, Scarlatti, Viennese classics, Romanticism with all of its contradictory sides, French impressionism, the entire palette of Russian music of the 19th and 20th centuries, his contemporaries - Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartók… For each individuality and for any style, he would build a convincing interpretation following the highest synthesis of "ratio" and "emotio", in which his unsurpassed technical mastery remained almost unnoticed. "No matter if he plays Bach or Shostakovich, Beethoven or Scriabin, Schubert or Debussy, every time the listener hears somewhat of a living, resurrected composer, every time he enters an author's enormous and original world," the famous teacher Heinrich Neuhaus said about his pupil.
CD1
J.S. Bach
English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in D Minor, BWV 1052
Concerto in C Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, BWV 1061
CD2
L. van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 13 - "Pathétique".
Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33
Eleven Bagatelles, Op. 119
Six Bagatelles, Op. 126
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57 - "Appassionata"
Fantasia in C Minor for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, Op. 80
CD3
Robert Schumann
Fantasiestücke (Fantasy Pieces), Op. 12
Humoreske in B-Flat Major, Op. 20
8 Novelletten, Op. 21: No. 2 in D Major
Moments Musicaux, D 780, Op. 94
CD4
Franz Schubert
Moments Musicaux, D 780, Op. 94
4 Impromptus, D. 935, Op. 142
Chopin
Etudes, Op. 25: No. 5 in E Minor
Polonaises, Op. 26: No. 1 in C-Sharp Minor
César Franck
Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
Béla Bartók
15 Hungarian Peasant Songs, Sz. 71 - "Four Old Tunes"
Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor, Op. 21
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F Major, Op. 103
César Franck
Les Djinns, Symphonic Poem for Piano and Orchestra
Total time: 355.20 |
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ID: SMCCD0051 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: Piano |
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