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Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Kiril Kondrashin
Liszt: Piano Concerti Nos. 1 & 2; Hungarian Fantasia; Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Andante spianato. Tranquillo -
2. Polonaise. Allegro molto
3. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in E flat major, S124: I. Allegro Maestoso
4. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in E flat major, S124: Qusi adagio
5. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.1 in E flat major, S124: Allegro marziale animato
6. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in A major, S125: Adagio sostenuto assai
7. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in A major, S125: Allegro moderato
8. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in A major, S125: Marziale un poco meno allegro
9. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in A major, S125: Allegro animato
10. Hungarian Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra, S123

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CD Details

All Artists: Frederic Chopin, Franz Liszt, Kiril Kondrashin, London Symphony Orchestra, Sviatoslav Richter
Title: Liszt: Piano Concerti Nos. 1 & 2; Hungarian Fantasia; Chopin: Andante spianato & Grande Polonaise
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: BBC Legends
Release Date: 3/28/2000
Album Type: Original recording remastered
Genre: Classical
Styles: Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Instruments, Keyboard, Symphonies
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 684911403121

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Sviatoslav Richter's studio recording of the Liszt Concertos, with the same collaborators heard in these live performances, has long been considered a classic. It also has extraordinarily fine recorded sound. In comparison, these performances are even more exciting, poetic, and spontaneous. They have been available in unauthorized editions for decades, but the current disc is the first ever taken from the original BBC master tapes and it sounds considerably more lifelike than any previous issue. Also, Richter never made studio recordings of the other works, and he plays both with extraordinary virtuosity and style. Richter was never known as a great Chopin player, but you'll wonder why after hearing this performance. Even if you own the Philips disc, this new issue is a highly worthwhile acquisition, more than an hour of the greatest piano playing you'll ever hear. --Leslie Gerber

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CD Reviews

A showstopper

JQR | Chapel Hill, N.C. | 07/17/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a real example of what documentary recordings can yield to posterity. While I've always found the studio versions by these same artists a bit overrated, this live version--recorded a few days prior to the Philips session (now on "Philips 50") is the real thing. Comparing the two, one gets the distinct sense that the artists were trying to recreate what they did on stage earlier. With a London audience on tenterhooks for the USSR's hidden wonder-pianist, you could not concieve of a more anticipatory concert. The Hungarian Fantasy, which in my mind replaces the Cherkassy/Karajan as the finest on record, is in fact interrupted by applause several times before the close. This is the stuff of time machines."