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Evgeny Svetlanov - Elena and Emil Gilels - Tchaikovsky

Evgeny Svetlanov - Elena and Emil Gilels - Tchaikovsky
ID: MELCD1001471
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

Recorded February 20th 1968
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F. Liszt - Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt

F. Liszt - Dedicated to the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt
ID: MELCD1001911
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

22 October, 2011 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the brilliant virtuoso pianist, genius composer, renowned educator and music critic, one of the brightest stars of the musical Olympus of the 19th century. As a daring innovator, Liszt stirred up a revolution in both the art of piano playing and composing. Being a classic of the Hungarian national music who imbibed cultural tradition of other countries, Liszt exerted influence upon on the course of European music in general. "If not for Liszt, the fate of new music would have been different," wrote music critic Vladimir Stasov. The piano remained Liszt's favourite instrument throughout his artistic life. His innovative approach to the instrument showed up in his orchestral and symphonic interpretation. He created a multitude of virtuosic transcriptions of his own works and ones composed by others authors such as operatic numbers and songs by Schumann, symphonies by Beethoven. "In the span of its seven octaves, [the piano] embraces the range of a whole orchestra, and the ten fingers of a single man suffice to render the harmonies produced created by the concurrence of a hundred musicians," wrote Liszt. In the field of symphonic music, the composer created a whole new genre - single movement symphonic poem (Tasso, Les préludes, Orpheus, Prometheus and others). This release dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Liszt's birth includes compositions by Franz Liszt performed by some of the best musicians such as Alexander Slobodyanik (his recording of a Hungarian Rhapsody and Piano Sonata in B minor brought him a Franz Liszt award in Hungary, in 1976), Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Gleb Akselrod, Mark Ermler, Lazar Berman, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Kirill Kondrashin.


CD 1:
(1) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
(2) - Lazar Berman (piano)
(3) - Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
(4) - Gleb Akselrod (piano)
(5) - Alexander Slobodyanik (piano)
CD2:
(1) - Pavel Serebryakov (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin
(2) - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(3 - 5 ) - USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Mark Ermler
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András Schiff, piano - From the V International Tchaikovsky Competition (Live)

András Schiff, piano - From the V International Tchaikovsky Competition (Live)
ID: MELCD1002386
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

CD1 - András Schiff, piano
CD2 - A. Schiff, piano / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - D. Kitayenko

Firma Melodiya presents never-before-released recordings of András Schiff made at the V Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1974.

One of the most prominent pianists of modern times, András Schiff is nevertheless does not belong to the so-called competition format. The musician who earned the pedestal of philosopher pianist, “a representative of intellectual musical tradition in its high apprehension,” has never had virtuosity, sonic lustre and visual artistry in his sphere of interests.

However, the live recordings of the then 21-year-old Hungarian are of unquestionable interest. Soviet music critic Leonid Gakkel described his impressions of Schiff’s performance in the following way: “From his very first note at the competition Schiff struck me with the vigour of his performance, and that was vigour of the highest festivity… What a touch on the piano, what a charge of energy, what burning fingers! Ultimate activity of a creating spirit at each moment of playing…”

At the competition, Schiff played piano works by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, variation cycles and concertos by Tchaikovsky and Brahms. In the opinion of Yevgeny Malinin, a competent judge and professor of the Moscow Conservatory, Schiff “read music without a drop of wilfulness: he lived in and with it.” The panel gave him only the fourth prize (“incomplete correspondence” with general virtuosity and competition standards had an impact). However, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that it was the Tchaikovsky Competition that brought the first significant success and international repute to the outstanding pianist.
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L. van Beethoven - The Complete Piano Concertos - Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra - Mikhail Voskresensky, piano

L. van Beethoven - The Complete Piano Concertos - Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra - Mikhail Voskresensky, piano
ID: SMCCD0267-269
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

CD1: Live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, November 14, 2018 (1-3) and January 20, 2017 (4-6)

CD2: Live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, November 14, 2018 (1-3) and May 25, 2015 (4-6)

CD3: Live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, February 14, 2018 (1-3) and May 11, 2019 (4)


Mikhail Voskresensky, piano
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Concert Symphony Orchestra -
The Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory (CD3: Track - 3)
Artistic director: Alexander Solovyev (CD3: Track - 3)
Conductor: Anatoly Levin
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Grigory Sokolov, (piano) plays Beethoven - Brahms - Chopin - Saint-Saëns - Schumann - Tchaikovsky

Grigory Sokolov, (piano) plays Beethoven - Brahms - Chopin - Saint-Saëns - Schumann - Tchaikovsky
ID: MELCD1002078
CDs: 4
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano

Melodiya presents a 4 CD set of recordings by pianist Grigory Sokolov. One of the best contemporary representatives of the St. Petersburg piano school, Sokolov is now well known in Russia and beyond. He tours around the globe delighting the audiences of the old and new worlds. Sokolov is a master of now rare “intellectual” pianism. However, unlike the great piano intellectual of the 20th century Glenn Gould, Sokolov prefers live concerts to studio work. “The biggest chasm is the one between a microphone and an individual,” the musician believes.

CD 1
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations (33) for Piano on a Waltz by Diabelli in C major, Op. 120
CD 2
F. F. Chopin, Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25
J. Brahms
Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117
Rhapsodies (2) for piano, Op. 79
CD 3
Robert Schumann
Fantasia in C major, Op. 17
Sonata for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22
CD 4
Camille Saint-Saëns
Concerto for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22
P.I. Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Total Time: 59:09
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Alexander Scriabin - Symphonic Works - S. Richter, piano - USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra - E. Svetlanov

Alexander Scriabin - Symphonic Works - S. Richter, piano - USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra - E. Svetlanov
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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Emil Gilels In Ensembles - Babayev - Beethoven - Brahms - Chopin and etc…

Emil Gilels In Ensembles - Babayev - Beethoven - Brahms - Chopin and etc…
ID: MELCD1002210
CDs: 4
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

Box set
The recordings were made in 1946 to 1959.

Firma Melodiya presents a set of rare recordings by Emil Gilels.

“The world knows many talented pianists and a few great masters who tower above them all. Emil Gilels is one of them.”

“The titans of piano like Gilels are borne once in a century.” Those were the kind of reviews that accompanied Gilels throughout his pianistic career beginning with his victory at the all-union competition in 1933 in Moscow. However, this set will open new sides to Gilels’s repertoire even to those who is well acquainted with his recordings.

We will hear Emil Gilels as an ensemble musician.

The titan of piano, who roused the audiences and orchestras, was able to turn into a fine chamber musician, a wonderful ensemble partner as though he dissolved his brightest individuality in a piece he performed.

The more so because Gilels’s partners were truly brilliant soloists such as Yakov Flier and Yakov Zak (piano), Elizaveta Gilels (violin), musicians from the Beethoven Quartet Dmitri Tsyganov (violin), Vadim Borisovsky (viola) and Sergei Shirinsky (cello).

The set features compositions from various periods. Along with well-know piano and chamber ensembles, it includes recordings of rarely performed works by Mozart arranged by Busoni, Saint-Saëns and Cui. But the previously unreleased recordings by Emil Gilels deserve a special mention. They are Suite No. 2 for piano by Rachmaninoff, Rondo four hands by Chopin, Concerto pathétique by Liszt, a suite for two pianos by Leonid Nikolayev and a piano trio by Andrei Babayev.


Babayev -Trio for piano violin and cello in C sharp minor
Beethoven -Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17
Brahms -Variations on a theme by Haydn for two pianos, Op. 56b 'St Anthony Variations' / Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Chopin - Rondo in C major for two pianos, Op. 73
Cui - Pieces for two pianos, Op. 69
Haydn -Piano Trio No. 31 in G major, Hob.XV:32
Liszt - Concerto pathétique in E minor for two pianos, S258
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K620: Overture / Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ, K608 / Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K459 / Fugue for 2 Pianos (K426) / Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra No. 10 in E flat, K365
L. Nikolayev - Suite for two pianos in B minor, Op. 13
Rachmaninov - Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17
Saint-Saëns - Variations on a theme by Beethoven, Op. 35

Emil Gilels (piano)
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Sviatoslav Richter Collection - J.S. Bach - Beethoven - R. Schumann - Schubert - Chopin and etc...

Sviatoslav Richter Collection - J.S. Bach - Beethoven - R. Schumann - Schubert - Chopin and etc...
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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Grigory Ginzburg - Records of 1949-1959, studio records of 1950

Grigory Ginzburg - Records of 1949-1959, studio records of 1950
ID: SMCCD0212-221
CDs: 10
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

SMCCD 0212
VOLUME 1

Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124
1. Allegro 5:34
2. Quasi adagio 4:09
3. Allegretto vivace 2:18
4. Allegro animato 1:42
5. Allegro marziale animato 4:05
Piano Concerto No. 2 in A major, S. 125
6. Adagio sostenuto assai 4:49
7. Allegro agitato assai 1:58
8. Allegro moderato 4:51
9. Allegro deciso 2:50
10. Marziale, un poco meno allegro 3:44
11. Allegro animato 1:46
Rhapsodie espagnole (Folies d'Espagne et Jota aragonese), S. 254,
arranged by Ferruccio Busoni
12. Lento 1:14
13. I. Folies d'Espagne. Andante moderato 3:44
14. II. Jota aragonese. Allegro 2:10
15. III. Cadenza. Un poco meno presto 5:02
16. Non troppo Allegro. Animato 1:20
17. St ä ndchen (F. Schubert), piano transcription, S. 560 No. 7 6:13
18. “La campanella” from Grandes é tudes de Paganini, S. 141 No. 3 4:25
Grigory Ginzburg (1904 - 1961)
19. Fantasia on a theme of “Largo al factotum” from Rossini's “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” 4:14
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Nikolai Anosov ( 1-16 )
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
February 24, 1949
ADD TT: 66:03

SMCCD 0213
VOLUME 2
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Ann é es de p è lerinage. Ann é e 1. Suisse, S. 160:
1. No. 1. La chapelle de Guillaume Tell 5:28
2. No. 2. Au lac de Wallenstadt 3:19
3. No. 6. Vall é e d’Obermann 12:20
4. No. 7. Eglogue 3:58
5. No. 9. Les cloches de Gen è ve 5:15
Ann é es de p è lerinage. Ann é e 2. Italie, S. 161:
6. No. 6. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca 5:57
Ann é es de p è lerinage. Venezia e Napoli, S. 162:
7. No. 3. Tarantella 8:10
Piano transcriptions of Schubert’s Songs:
8. Wohin?, S. 565 No. 5 3:06
9. Aufenthalt, S. 560 No. 3 3:30
10. Das Wandern, S. 565 No. 1 1:46
11. Das Erlk ö nig, S. 558 No. 4 4:36
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
October 23, 1952
ADD TT: 57.19

SMC CD 0214
VOLUME 3
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Grandes É tudes de Paganini, S. 141:
1. No. 1 in G minor 4:38
2. No. 4 in E major 2:12
3. No. 5 in E major 2:48
4. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor, S. 244 No. 2 8:23
5. “Un Sospiro” from É tudes de concert in D flat major, S. 144 No. 3 4:57
6. “La Campanella” from Grandes É tudes de Paganini in G sharp minor, S.141 No. 3 4:33
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Fantasia in C minor, KV 475
7. Adagio. Allegro. Andantino. Pi ú allegro 11:53
Sonata for Piano No. 11 in A major, KV 331
8. Andante grazioso. Adagio. Allegro 10:55
9. Menuetto 3:57
10. Alla Turca. Allegretto 3:02
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
Sonatine in F sharp minor (1903 - 1905)
11. Mod é r é 3:58
12. Mouvement de menuet 2:33
13. Anim é 3:34
Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
14. Mazurka from “Album de P é terhof”, op. 75 No. 10 2:46
15. Serenade in D minor from “Miscellanees”, op. 93, Vol. 9, No. 5 2:00
16. Polka (Bohemia) from “Album of Popular Dances of the Different Nations”, op. 82 No. 7 3:47
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
October 23, 1952 ( 1-6 ); December 13, 1954 (7-16 )
ADD TT: 75:46

SMC CD 0215
VOLUME 4
Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
Carnaval, op. 9
1. Pr é ambule 2:03
2. Pierrot 0:53
3. Arlequin 0:39
4. Valse noble 1:52
5. Eusebius 1:24
6. Florestan 0:56
7. Coquette 0:57
8. R é plique. Sphinxes 1:25
9. Papillons 0:42
10. A. S. C. H. - S. C. H. A. Lettres dansantes 0:47
11. Chiarina 0:48
12. Chopin 1:00
13. Estrella 0:23
14. Reconnaissance 1:43
15. Pantalon et Colombine 0:42
16. Valse allemande. Paganini (Intermezzo) 2:03
17. Aveu 1:13
18. Promenade 1:43
19. Pause 0:17
20. Marche des Davidsbuendlers contre les Philistines 3:23
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
21. Contredanse in C major, WoO 14 No. 1 (arr. I. Seiss) 2:23
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
Les cloches de Gen è ve from “Ann é es de p è lerinage.
22. Ann é e 1. Suisse, S. 160 No. 9 5:32
Grigory Ginzburg (1904 - 1961)
23. Fantasia on a theme of “Largo al factotum” from Rossini's “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” 4:13
Fr é d é ric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
24. Impromtu in A flat major, op. 29 No. 1 4:07
25. Impromtu in F sharp major, op. 36 No. 2 5:16
26. Impromtu in G flat major, op. 51 No. 3 6:04
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, op. 35
27. Grave. Doppio movimento 5:23
28. Scherzo 5:31
29. Marche fun è bre. Lento 7:19
30. Finale. Presto 1:27
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
31. Etude in E major from Grandes É tudes de Paganini, S. 141 No. 5 2:55
32. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 10 in E major, S. 244 No. 10 4:43
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
December 13, 1954 (1 - 23 )
Live at Grand Hall of the Kiev Philharmonic Society
January 4, 1959 (24 - 32)
ADD TT: 79:34

SMC CD 0216
VOLUME 5
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
1. Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 (transcr. by F. Busoni) 9:40
2. Prelude “Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ” in F minor, BWV 639 from “Orgel-B ü chlein” (transcr. by F. Busoni) 3:37
3. Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for Violin solo in D minor, BWV 1004 (transcr. by F. Busoni) 14:53
4. Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532 12:45
5. Siciliano from Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Clavier in E flat major, BWV 1031 (transcr. by G. Galston) 4:52
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
December 25, 1957
A D D TT: 45:43

SMC CD 0217
VOLUME 6
Sergey Prokofiev (1891 - 1953)
1. Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, op. 28 7:00
Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915)
From 12 Etudes, op. 8:
1. No. 1 in C sharp minor 1:25
2. No. 7 in B flat minor 2:00
3. No. 11 in B flat minor 4:30
4. No. 12 in D sharp minor 2:02
George Gershwin (1898 - 1937)
Three Preludes for Piano (1926)
5. No. 1 in B flat major 1:42
6. No. 2 in C sharp minor 3:21
7. No. 3 in E flat minor 1:45
Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
8. R é miniscences de “Don Juan”, S. 418 16:28
Fr é d é ric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
9. Mazurka No. 13 in A minor, op. 17 No. 4 3:32
Live at Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory
December 25, 1957
ADD TT: 43:39

SMC CD 0218
VOLUME 7
Wolfgang Аmadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, KV 310
1. Allegro maestoso 5:41
2. Andante cantabile con espressione 7:23
3. Presto 3:18
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, op. 10 No. 3
4. Presto 6:57
5. Largo e mesto 9:43
6. Menuetto. Allegro 2:48
7. Rondo. Allegro 4:12
Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, op. 57
8. Allegro assai 9:28
9. Andante con moto 5:52
10. Allegro ma non troppo. Presto 4:52
Six Variations in D major, ор. 76
11. Thema. Allegro risoluto 0:43
12. Variation I 0:37
13. Variation II 0:40
14. Variation III 1:06
15. Variation IV 0:47
16. Variation V 0:47
17. Variation VI 2:04
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 66:49

SMC CD 0219
VOLUME 8
Robert Schumann (1819 - 1856)
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, op. 26
1. Allegro 9:20
2. Romanze 1:56
3. Scherzino 2:10
4. Intermezzo 2:19
5. Finale 6:10
6. Toccata in C major, ор. 7 5:15
7. ABEGG Variations in F major, op. 1 8:26
From 6 Etudes after Paganini Caprices, op. 3
8. No. 2 in E major 2:54
9. No. 4 in B flat major 2:24
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)
Grand Sonata in G major, op. 37
10. Moderato e risoluto 15:09
11. Andante non troppo quasi moderato 10:05
12. Scherzo. Allegro giocoso 3:00
13. Finale. Allegro vivace 7:44
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 76:45

SMC CD 0220
VOLUME 9
Fr é d é ric Chopin (1810 - 1849)
1. Polonaise in A major, op. 40 No. 1 5:04
2. Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53 No. 6 6:42
3. Polonaise in B flat major, op. 71 No. 2 7:04
4. Waltz No. 2 in A flat major, op. 34 No. 1 4:53
5. Waltz No. 3 in A minor, op. 34 No. 2 4:49
6. Waltz No. 5 in A flat major, op. 42 3:28
7. Waltz No. 7 in C sharp minor, op. 64 No. 2 3:15
8. Mazurka in G minor, op. 24 No. 1 2:39
9. Mazurka in A flat major, op. 24 No. 3 2:13
10. Mazurka in B flat minor, op. 24 No. 4 4:30
11. Mazurka in C major, op. 68 No. 1 1:36
12. Mazurka in C major (No. 57) 3:08
Etudes, ор. 25
13. No. 1 in A flat major 2:24
14. No. 2 in F minor 1:23
15. No. 3 in F major 1:38
16. No. 4 in A minor 1:33
17. No. 5 in E minor 3:24
18. No. 6 in G sharp minor 2:06
19. No. 7 in C sharp minor 5:35
20. No. 8 in D flat major 1:10
21. No. 9 in G flat major 1:02
22. No. 10 in B minor 4:05
23. No. 11 in A minor 3:31
24. No. 12 in C minor 2:32
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 79:29

SMC CD 0221
VOLUME 10
Piano Transcriptions
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
1. Fantaisie on a theme from “Die Ruinen von Athen” for Piano and Orchestra, S. 122 12:17
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827) - Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
2. Turkish March from “Die Ruinen von Athen” 2:25
Jean Philippe Rameau (1683 - 1764) - Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938)
3. Minuet in A minor 4:43
Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826) - Leopold Godowsky (1870 - 1938)
4. Randeau “Perpetuum Mobile” 4:53
Alexander Alyabyev (1787 - 1851) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
5. Nightingale, S. 250a 2:26
Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893) - Pavel Pabst (1854 - 1897)
6. Paraphrase on themes from the opera “Eugene Onegin” 12:03
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
7. Concert paraphrase on themes from the opera “Rigoletto”, S. 434 6:31
Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893) - Franz Liszt (1811 - 1886)
8. Waltz from the opera “Faust”, S. 407 10:33
Ludomir Rozycki (1885 - 1953) - Grigory Ginzburg (1904 - 1961)
9. Fantasy on waltz from the opera “Casanova” 4:15
Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899) - Karl Tausig (1841 - 1871)
10. Valse-caprice No. 2, op. 167 from “5 Nouvelles soir é es de Vienne” on theme from Waltz “Man lebt nur einmal” 7:37
Johann Strauss II (1825 - 1899) - Andrey Schulz-Evler (1854 - 1905)
11. Concert arabesques on waltz “An der schonen Blauen Donau”, op. 314 8:36
USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Alexander Gauk ( 1 )
Studio recordings of the 1950s
ADD TT: 76:16
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RICHTER - THE 100th - ANNIVERSARY EDITION

RICHTER - THE  100th - ANNIVERSARY EDITION
ID: MELCD1002270
CDs: 50
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano

For the 100th anniversary of Sviatoslav Richter, Firma Melodiya presents its
arguably biggest project in its semicentennial 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 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 3 500 concerts in 770 places of the world for 55
years of his musical career! (“He was somewhat fathomless, Richter,” said one of his
famous colleagues). However, after he conquered the world (almost literally), he remained
indifferent to ovation and eulogies of the press, painfully experienced each
of the “defects” he noticed in his performance, and at the end of his way confessed
before the journalist Bruno Monsaingeon: “I don’t like myself.”
Of course we inherited numerous recordings from Sviatoslav Richter, live
and studio ones (although he preferred the former to the latter). Hundreds of records
and CDs have been released on domestic and foreign labels (the first of them,
gramophone ones, appeared in the 1940’s while some others became available as
late as in this century). However, even the existing body of recordings captures
neither his complete repertoire nor the entire essence of Richter’s
pieces could sound differently over the years, or even over a day!
And now, Firma Melodiya that recently marked its 50th birthday 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 -
Schubert’s last sonata and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (1949);
• recording of the concert with Nina Dorliak in Bucharest, in 1958;
• recordings of “home” rehearsals with Nina Dorliak.
Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus, on which he plays a “modest” piano
part in an orchestra, is evidence of Richter’s extremely broad musical interests, or
the recordings of J.S. Bach’s ensemble concertos together with students of the
Moscow Conservatory.
Perhaps the listeners will find a number of “repetitive” tracks surprising.
Richter played (and recorded) many works time and again. Some of them allow us
to track the evolution of the pianist’s art, testify to his constant creative search
and dissatisfaction with himself (the interpretations of Berg’s concertos with different
performers, different versions of Schubert’s Sonata No. 6, Beethoven’s Third
Concerto and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition at an interval of ten and twenty
years, respectively). Some other recordings were played in a shorter stretch of
time (Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1, Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2), or in succession - from
the mid 1970’s. Considering the growing interest of the public, Richter frequently,
fully or partly, repeated his programmes. So, at an interval of one day he played
Mozart’s Concerto No. 18 and Rachmaninoff’s Etudes-tableaux. In those unique
phonographic documents, a keen ear will detect barely perceptible “atmospheric”
changes that captured an inner aura of a certain concert as each of them was a new
test for the pianist in terms uncompromising strictness to himself, a new step on
the way to Absolute Music.

Berg:
Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments
Brahms:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
Britten:
Piano Concerto, Op. 13
Debussy:
Préludes - Book 2 (12, complete)
Cloches à travers les feuilles (No. 1 from Images pour piano - Book 2)
Dvorak:
Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
Franck, C:
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14
Violin Sonata in A major
Liszt:
Erlkönig (No. 4 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
Concerto pathétique for Piano and Orchestra, S365a
Mendelssohn:
Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595
Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)
Prokofiev:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, Op. 55
Ravel:
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Piano Trio in A minor
Schubert:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960
Piano Sonata No. 6 in E minor, D566
Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D664
Piano Sonata No. 11 in F minor, D625
Klavierstücke (3), D946
Schumann:
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Scriabin:
Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass'
Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Op. 60
Shostakovich:
Violin Sonata, Op. 134
Viola Sonata, Op. 147
Wagner:
Elegy in A flat
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