Artist: Sviatoslav Richter This SACD remastering from Praga's Reminiscences series features pianist Sviatoslav Richter playing solo works by Franz Liszt. Richter's concert programs often included major works by Liszt, and his interpretations of these works often rivaled those of Horowitz, Arrau and Gilels. |
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The RCO's performance history of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony is strangely uneven. |
Sensuous, lushly evocative and intricately constructed, Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé is widely regarded as his greatest orchestral masterpiece and one of the 20th century’s finest ballet scores. |
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Frank Peter Zimmermann, who in 2010 was awarded the international Paul Hindemith Prize of the City of Hanau, makes a great case for these works. His Trio recently won the 2013 BBC Music Magazine Award for their Chamber recording of Beethoven’s Trio Op. 9. |
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Vladimir Jurowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin excel in these new recordings of Richard Strauss s electrifying Also Sprach Zarathustra and Mahler s Totenfeier, released by PENTATONE to coincide with the Russian maestro taking up office as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the orchestra. |