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Mussorgsky: Pictures at An Ex

Sviatoslav Richter (Piano) Audio CD


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1. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: Drei Stücklein: 1. Nicht schnell, mit Innigkeit
2. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: Drei Stücklein: 2. Sehr rasch
3. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: Drei Stücklein: 3. Frisch
4. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: Fünf Albumblätter: 1. Ziemlich langsam
5. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: Fünf Albumblätter: 2. Schnell
6. Bunte BlÃtter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: FÃnf AlbumblÃtter: 3. Ziemlich langsam, sehr gesangvoll
7. Bunte BlÃtter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: FÃnf AlbumblÃtter: 4. Sehr langsam
8. Bunte BlÃtter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: FÃnf AlbumblÃtter: 5. Langsam
9. Bunte BlÃtter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 9. Novelette. Lebhaft
10. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 10. Präludium. Energisch
11. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 11. Marsch. Sehr getragen
12. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 12. Abendmusik. Im Menuetttempo
13. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 13. Scherzo. Lebhaft
14. Bunte Blätter (14) (Colored Leaves) for piano, Op. 99: No. 14. Geschwindmarsch. Sehr markiert
15. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano: Promenade
16. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano: 2. Gnomus
17. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano: Promenade
18. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano: 2. Il vecchio castello
19. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano: Promenade
20. Pictures at an Exhibition (Kartinki s vïstavski), for piano: 3. Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants aprÃs jeux)
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It's hard to believe that any pianist, living or dead (or, probably, yet-to-be-born) could match, much less surpass, these performances. It was Richter, after all, who made Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition almost as important an item in the standard repertory of the piano as Ravel's orchestration is in that of the orchestra. And it was Richter's performances of it, as well as his example, that have ignited the interest of subsequent generations of pianists in the Bunte Blätter, heretofore one of the most obscure works in the Schumann canon.

Indeed, Richter's only competition in these two pieces is himself. These 1968 performances, taped by the BBC, in front of an audience in London's Kingsway Hall, are both better than the pianist's studio recordings of the same pieces. (Richter's studio version of Pictures was recorded in Moscow in 1958 and is available on BMG; his studio version of the Schumann dates from a 1971 session in Salzburg and is available on an Olympia disc.) Wonderful as this BBC performance of the Mussorgsky is, listeners new to Richter should bypass it for another of the pianist's live accounts: the unsurpassable performance from a 1958 recital in Sofia, Bulgaria (Philips). --Stephen Wigler


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Richter is exceptional!!! His personal and intimate approach to the piano and especially with these pieces is rivalled only by the incredible mastery of technique and consistency of execution in this live performance.

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