Mozart: Piano Sonata K. 283, Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux, Scriabin, etc.

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By 1966 Richter was already an Aldeburgh veteran, and in this recital he sounds entirely at his ease. Is that a twinkle in his eye in the first movement of his Mozart sonata, a ghost of a smile even? More objectively, this is as finely chiselled an account as you could hope to hear, and Richter's phrasing is wonderfully subtle (hear the wonderful sloping edges in the development section of the first movement, the easygoing singing quality in the slow movement and the controlled energy in the finale, which achieves unhurried clarity within a genuine presto). A few scattered coughs and a very few minor fluffs remind of us the live occasion and make the elevated quality of the playing all the more thrilling.Richter places each of the four movements from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons in its own timbral and expressive world, with a fabulous array of beguiling sonorities, despite the dryish acoustic. The two Rachmaninov Etudes-tableaux pass by as if in a whirlwind of inspiration; and Richter brings to Scriabin's 'Black Mass' Sonata an authentically hallucinatory, hanging-in-the-air quality that seems to come straight from another world. Prokofiev's Fourth Sonata was always a favourite of Richter's, and he plays it with crusading fervour, brandishing a hard fist in fortissimo, but complementing this with abundant fantasy and colour. In the last pages he goes for broke, in a way that surely betokens his satisfaction with the recital as a whole.The recorded sound is nothing if not well focused. In the Prokofiev, that makes for some uncompromising harshness, but elsewhere it enables us to savour every tiniest nuance of Richter's art. Chris de Souza's booklet essay is informative but trots out the old legend of Richter having written a book about Prokofiev – a fascinating chapter, yes, but never a book. David Fanning

Mozart: Piano Sonata K. 283, Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux, Scriabin, etc., Music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov, Alexander Scriabin, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter, 20th/21st Century Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Sonata/Sonatina for Keyboard, Coll. of Character/Single-Movement/Misc. Works for Keyb., Etude for Keyboard, Keyboard

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Mozart: Piano Sonata K. 283, Rachmaninov: Etudes-tableaux, Scriabin, etc. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Peter Tchaikovsky , and Sergei Rachmaninov Manufacturer: BBC Legends ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Scriabin, Alexander | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tchaikovsky | Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Prokofiev | Prokofiev, Sergei | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Rachmaninov | Rachmaninov, Sergei | ( R ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Etudes | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatinas | Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Scriabin, Alexander | Composers | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Sonatas | Forms & Genres | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Richter, Sviatoslav | ( R ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: BBC Friends: Richter (Great Performers of the Twentieth Century) Schubert: Piano Sonatas Schubert, Chopin, Liszt Sviatoslav Richter Plays Chopin, Debussy, Beethoven Handel: Keyboard Suites, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00005Q5LP Release Date: 2001-11-20

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1. I. Allegro
2. II. Andante
3. III. Presto
4. No.5: May. Starlight Night
5. No.6: June. Barcarolle
6. No.11: November. In A Troika
7. No.1: January. By The Hearth
8. No.3 in f#: Allegro Molto
9. No.4 in b: Allegro Assai
10. Moderato Quasi Andante - Molto Meno Vivo - Allegro - Piu Vivo - Allegro Molto - Alla Marcia - Piu Vivo - Allegro - Presto
11. I. Allegro Molto Sostenuto
12. II. Andante Assai
13. III. Allegro Con Brio, Ma Non Leggiero

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1. Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos. 4 & 2, Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat Major [Import]
2. Oeuvres pour Accordéon
3. Offenbach - La Belle Hélène / Lott, Beuron, Sénéchal, Naouri, Le Roux, Todorovitch, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Minkowski
4. OPEN-CLOSE-OPEN: American Contest Solos for Snare Drum
5. Pachelbel's Canon and Other Baroque Favorites
6. Panorama: Johann Sebastian Bach, Vol. 1
7. Passionate Impressions--Hahn: Le Rossignol Éperdu
8. Puccini: Essential Puccini [Import]
9. Pure Magic
10. Rückblick Moderne: 20th Century Orchestral Music

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