Sviatoslav Richter – Piano Concertos [4 SACDs] (1969-1979/2021)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 04:33:16 minutes | 11,02 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI / Tower Records Japan – TDSA-196/9
リヒテルが旧EMIレーベルに収録したソロのピアノ協奏曲8曲を4枚組に集成。それぞれ名盤として名高い壮年期の重要な記録。
最上の音質を目指し新規で本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープから192kHz/24bitでデジタル化し最新復刻。
8曲目のモーツァルトは、新規でマルチチャンネルのマスターよりミキシングしマスタリング。
DISC4は世界初SACD化。新規解説付
リヒテルが1969年から79年にかけて4名の指揮者、5つのオーケストラと共演した旧EMIレーベルへのピアノ協奏曲8曲を収録。一部世界初SACD化。壮年期のテクニック溢れるリヒテルのこれらの録音はレコード史的にも重要な録音ばかりで、それぞれが名演として知られています。クライバーとの唯一の共演盤となったドヴォルザークを始め、自ら評価していたグリーグの圧倒的名演等、聴きどころが満載。今回、従来以上の192Khz/24bitのスペックであらためて本国のオリジナル・アナログ・マスターテープよりデジタル化を行った上で最新のマスタリングを施し、神髄に迫りました。SACD層、CD層別々にマスタリングしているのは従来通りです。新規解説付。永久保存盤です。(1/3)
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Sviatoslav Richter, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber – Dvorak: Piano Concerto Op. 33 (1976/2012)
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 00:38:31 minutes | 1,55 GB
Genre: Classical | Publisher (label): EMI Music Japan – TOGE-12056
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Sviatoslav Richter – Schumann: The Piano Works by Sviatoslav Richter (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:30:48 minutes | 2,36 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. He is regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time, and has been praised for the “depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire”.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 by Sviatoslav Richter (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 22:58 minutes | 376 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100, in Soviet Russia in one month in the summer of 1944. Fourteen years had passed since Prokofiev wrote the first version of his Symphony No. 4 in C major. World War II was still raging during the symphony’s gestation, and Prokofiev composed it in the Soviet Union. He gave out in a statement at the time that he intended it as “a hymn to free and happy Man, to his mighty powers, his pure and noble spirit.” He added “I cannot say that I deliberately chose this theme. It was born in me and clamoured for expression. The music matured within me. It filled my soul.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata” (Remastered) (1960/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 23:58 minutes | 400 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Alexandre Bak – Classical Music Reference Recording
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 (colloquially known as the Appassionata, meaning “passionate” in Italian) is among the three famous piano sonatas of his middle period (the others being the Waldstein, Op. 53 and Les Adieux, Op. 81a); it was composed during 1804 and 1805, and perhaps 1806, and was dedicated to Count Franz von Brunswick. The first edition was published in February 1807 in Vienna.
Unlike the early Sonata No. 8, Pathétique, the Appassionata was not named during the composer’s lifetime, but was so labelled in 1838 by the publisher of a four-hand arrangement of the work. Instead, Beethoven’s autograph manuscript of the sonata has “La Passionata” written on the cover, in Beethoven’s hand.
One of his greatest and most technically challenging piano sonatas, the Appassionata was considered by Beethoven to be his most tempestuous piano sonata until the twenty-ninth piano sonata (known as the Hammerklavier). 1803 was the year Beethoven came to grips with the irreversibility of his progressively deteriorating hearing.
An average performance of the entire Appassionata sonata lasts about twenty-five minutes.
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Sviatoslav Richter, Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky – Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, Symphony No.6 (2012)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:01 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical | © Praga Digitals
An non-usual pairing of Tchaikovsky’s two most popular scores by uncontested Russian masters: the resurrection of one Richter’s rare encounters with the most Russian conductor of the 20th century, Yevgeny Mravinsky. Indispensable for whomever wants to hear the references left by the two legendary artists.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Sviatoslav Richter plays Mussorgsky & Tchaikovsky (2016)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:18:01 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical | © Praga Digitals
Richter’s creative flair lifts hitherto neglected pieces by Tchaikovsky to the level of Mussorgsky’s mighty ‘Pictures’ in recordings from Moscow to New York.
A Russian pianist known for the depth of his interpretations, virtuoso technique, and vast repertoire, Richter is considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century and his approach resulted in some of the most distinctive and individual performances of the piano repertoire ever recorded. In later life he took to playing at very short notice in small, most often darkened halls, with only a small lamp lighting the score. Richter said that this setting helped the audience focus on the music being performed, rather than the performer’s grimaces and gestures.
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Sviatoslav Richter & Leningrad PO, Kurt Sanderling – Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 (2012)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:14:41 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical | © Praga Digitals
Richter only played Rachmaninov’s first two concertos before embarking on his international career in 1960. A logical compilation of two live performances plus four Préludes which were to remain his favourites for the next 50 years. A unique programme which today’s cutting edge techniques have attempted to render in all their original glory. Richter n’a joué les deux premiers concertos de Rachmaninov qu’avant sa carrière internationale qui n’a réellement débutée qu’en 1960. Couplage désormais logique et unique de deux lives complété par quatre Préludes qui resteront, eux, ses favoris pendant près d’un demi-siècle. Un programme unique que les techniques les plus récentes tentent ici de reproduire dans leur vérité première.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Dvorak, Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos (2012)
SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 38:30 + 58:59 minutes | 4,18 GB | Genre: Classical | © EMI Classics
MWC says: I really don’t understand these people at EMI Abbey Road! Besides making DSD from PCM 24/96 they have Quad masters of this recording, but produce only a Stereo SACD?
The Signature Collection is a brand new series from EMI Classics featuring the finest catalogue recordings released for the 1st time ever in high resolution format. The 1st batch of 10 titles which include Jacqueline du Pré’s Elgar Cello Concertos, Giueseppe Di Stefano’s Neapolitan Songs & Walter Gieseking’s Debussy: Complete Piano Works, offer listeners more clarity & detail than ever before. The expert engineers at Abbey Road Studios who remastered the original EMI recordings on Hybrid Super Audio CDs have breathed new life into these iconic catalog recordings. Each title in the Signature Collection is beautifully presented in a full-color illustrated hardback book. The liner notes explore not only the rich music but also the story behind original LP covers. Also included are never before seen photographs of the original master tapes.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Deutsche Grammophon Concerto Recordings (2019) [Japan 2019]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 219:09 min | Scans incl. | 8,88 GB
Features 1958, 1959 & 1962 Recordings | Deutsche Grammophon / Tower Records, Japan # PROC 2196~8
From the heyday of Svyatoslav Richter, all the concertos recorded by DG from 1958 to 62 were assembled into 3 pieces (except Disc 3, these are 1st time on SACD). Features the works by Robert Schumann, W.A. Mozart, Sergey Prokofiev, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Sergei Rachmaninov & P.I. Tchaikovsky. This is a Sviatoslav Richter’s special collaboration with Wittold Lovitki, Kurt Sanderling, Herbert von Karajan, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, etc. Features the new mastering from the original analogue master tapes.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:42:07 minutes | 945 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Andromeda
Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter March 20 [O.S. March 7] 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian pianist who is frequently regarded as one of the greatest pianists of all time. He is known for the “depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire.”
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Sviatoslav Richter – Sviatoslav Richter at Carnegie Hall, New York City, December 23, 1960 (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:46:23 minutes | 2,13 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
GREAT MOMENTS AT CARNEGIE HALL :: Ever since its opening night in May 1891 Carnegie Hall has held sway as the undisputed shrine of classical music in America. It was and remains the essential venue for all great artists. To celebrate Carnegie Hall’s 125th anniversary Sony Classical in cooperation with Carnegie Hall is proud to present an extraordinary new 43-CD box set of treasures from the RCA and Columbia archives featuring live recordings from many of the world’s greatest musicians. This unique deluxe edition contains a complete previously unreleased piano recital by Sviatoslav Richter and is accompanied by a 104-pages coffee table book which contains notes by Carnegie Hall archivist Gino Francesconi as well as many facsimile documents and photographs.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Piano Sonata No.16 D845 & No.17 D850 (2012)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:15:20 minutes | 1,03 GB | Genre: Classical | © Praga Digitals
Juxtaposition of the First and Seconde Grande Sonate for pianoforte of 1825, one a melancholic, intimate effusion that will not smile even in its concluding rondo, voluntarist and threatening; the other, brimming with frothy joy close to a stylized Tyrolienne, then a refined Ländler whose emotional invention heralds Bruckner, followed by a moderato as light as it is timeless in its innocent, inalterable gaiety. A portrait such as only Richter the painter knew how to compose.
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Sviatoslav Richter – Schubert: Piano Sonata No.3 D664 & No.21 D960 (2012)
SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 01:19:19 minutes | 1,06 GB | Genre: Classical | © Praga Digitals
Richter conquered Paris with this kind of Schubert scores. The last and immense Piano Sonata No.21 in B flat major, D 960 (1828) stayed a long time in his repertoire chasing the ‘small’, once faciend sonatas. He captures the brillant ambiguity of these serie of exclamations, more a cycle of irmpromptus than a real sonata dixit Beethoven, its strict architecture opposing its instinctive imaginativness. Richter exudes overwhelming charm of an isolated Impomptu before respecting the post mozartian baroau approach in the 1819 small A major Sonata D 664.
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