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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Symphony No. 3
Svjatoslav Richter (piano)
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky
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Saint-Saëns: Concertos
Emil Gilels (piano), Isaac Stern (violin), Msistlav Rostropovitch (cello), Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Societe des concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Concerts Lamoureux, André Clutyens, Eugene Ormandy, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Jean Fournet
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Richter's technical feats make his Liszt playing extraordinary, while his sense of near-demonic possession in these live performances, recorded at various points in the 1950s, is hair-raising. — More…
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Falla: El sombrero de tres picos & other works
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Clara Haskil (piano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Concerts Lamoureux, Ernest Ansermet, Igor Markevitch
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Prague Symphony Orchestra (FOK), Vàclav Smetacek
Despite inferior sound, Michelangeli dazzles in the opening of Op. 111, is magisterial in the Emperor Concerto, and gives peerless performances of Debussy's Images. — More…
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Richter's piano is clangorous in Op. 90, yet every bar is filled with personality and ideas. He is reflective yet explosive in Op. 101, though there's some technical insecurity. — More…
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Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky & Ilya Shpilberg
This is Mravinsky at his peak. The playing of the Leningrad Philharmonic in these three twentieth century works is quite astonishingly good. — More…
