Richter BBC Legends Listing

Mr. Mike

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Feb 27, 2015, 10:15:52 AM2/27/15

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Is there a list of all of Richter's BBC Legends recordings somewhere?
I constructed the following by just copying and pasting from
Amazon.co.uk listings. I'm surprised there is not a box set of all of
these released yet.

Beethoven / Chopin / Haydn: Piano Works
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 3 & 29/Bagatelles, Op.126
Beethoven; Schubert; Schumann - Piano Works
Brahms/Schubert Lieder with Fischer-Dieskau (Magelone)
Debussy, Chopin (box set, 2 CDs)
Haydn; Piano Sonata No.44 in E flat major/ Prokofiev; Piano Sonatas
Nos.2 & 8
Liszt - Piano Sonata; Chopin - Barcarolle, Op 60 (also Schubert)
Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, etc.
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos 22 and 27
Recital (Mozart, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev)
Rostropovich/ Richter: Brahms (also Grieg & Shostakovich)
Schubert - Piano Sonatas, D575, D625 & D664
Schubert/ Bartok/ Szymanowski/ Prokofiev
Schubert; Schumann - Piano Works (also Debussy)
Schumann - Bunte Blatter / Mussorgsky - Pictures at an Exhibition /
Debussy - Cloches a ravers les feuilles
Schumann - Papillons/ Introduction and Allegro Appassionato /
Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960

tomono...@hotmail.com

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Feb 27, 2015, 6:23:33 PM2/27/15

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http://www.classical-music.com/magazine/current-issue/bbc-music-magazine

"free CD" is "Sviatoslav Richter plays at the Royal Festival Hall (11 May 1969)".

weary flake

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Feb 28, 2015, 2:25:17 AM2/28/15

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So it looks like BBC magazine made
a Richter CD of BBC performances
that haven't been published before.

Lionel Tacchini

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Feb 28, 2015, 2:48:58 AM2/28/15

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Holy cow!

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Lionel Tacchini

John Wiser

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Feb 28, 2015, 9:12:11 AM2/28/15

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"Lionel Tacchini" <lionel....@arcor.de> wrote in message
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Translating error, you really mean "sacred cow", don't you?

jdw

Lionel Tacchini

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Feb 28, 2015, 9:41:57 AM2/28/15

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If holy refers to the perceived state of something and sacred to the way
people handle it, then holy probably fits better since this just issued
recording cannot be sacred yet.

So I'm shouting at the beast and wait to see if others will bow to it.
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Lionel Tacchini

weary flake

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Feb 28, 2015, 10:08:43 AM2/28/15

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I shouldn't say that. It might be the
same performance as from the BBC CD set
of 20 October 1968 already released on BBC:

http://www.amazon.com/Richter-Chopin-Beethoven-Schumann-Rachmaninov/dp/B00005Y33C/

Lionel Tacchini

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Feb 28, 2015, 10:34:43 AM2/28/15

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The CD inlay of the BBC magazine announces the recording date as May
11th, 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, including Debussy's
"Cloches à travers les feuiles" and an undated Finale of Stravinsky's
Petrushka.

The review on MusicWeb for the BBC Legend CD states:

16 June 1967, Snape Maltings (Haydn, Chopin Opus 72),
20 October 1968, Royal Festival Hall (Chopin Opus 15, Beethoven, Schumann),
8 October 1969, Free Trade Hall, Manchester (Rachmaninov)

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/Apr02/SRichter.htm

So they are announced as different recordings.
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Lionel Tacchini

John Wiser

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Feb 28, 2015, 10:54:03 AM2/28/15

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"Lionel Tacchini" <lionel....@arcor.de> wrote in message

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I construed the performer, not the recording.

jdw

RiRiIII

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Feb 28, 2015, 1:43:22 PM2/28/15

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On Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 5:34:43 PM UTC+2, Lionel Tacchini wrote:
> On 28.02.2015 16:08, weary flake wrote:
> > On 2015-02-28 07:25:14 +0000, weary flake said:
> >
> >> On 2015-02-27 23:23:30 +0000, tomono...@hotmail.com said:
> >>
> >>> http://www.classical-music.com/magazine/current-issue/bbc-music-magazine
> >>>
> >>> "free CD" is "Sviatoslav Richter plays at the Royal Festival Hall (11
> >>> May 1969)".
> >>
> >> So it looks like BBC magazine made
> >> a Richter CD of BBC performances
> >> that haven't been published before.
> >
> > I shouldn't say that. It might be the
> > same performance as from the BBC CD set
> > of 20 October 1968 already released on BBC:
> >
> > http://www.amazon.com/Richter-Chopin-Beethoven-Schumann-Rachmaninov/dp/B00005Y33C/
> >
>
> The CD inlay of the BBC magazine announces the recording date as May
> 11th, 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, including Debussy's
> "Cloches à travers les feuiles" and an undated Finale of Stravinsky's
> Petrushka.

...
The undated finale is from the Firebird suite for orchestra - undated indeed.

Alex

Lionel Tacchini

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Feb 28, 2015, 1:53:01 PM2/28/15

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On 28.02.2015 19:43, RiRiIII wrote:
>> The CD inlay of the BBC magazine announces the recording date as May
>> >11th, 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall in London, including Debussy's
>> >"Cloches à travers les feuiles" and an undated Finale of Stravinsky's
>> >Petrushka.
> ...
> The undated finale is from the Firebird suite for orchestra - undated indeed.

Oh well, never mind. Some dance music anyway.

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Lionel Tacchini

RiRiIII

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Feb 28, 2015, 2:20:43 PM2/28/15

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Right. However from your writing I thought it was Richter performing Petrushka from an undated concert...

Lionel Tacchini

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Feb 28, 2015, 2:39:32 PM2/28/15

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Yes, I mixed them up.
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Andy Evans

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Mar 3, 2015, 4:11:03 AM3/3/15

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I was at Richter's debut concert in the RFH. The Prokofiev program had 4 encores, the Chopin/Debussy concert which came next had 6 encores, and a group of people pretty much mobbed the stage, standing in the aisles right at the front. All seats were sold for the whole series, which included Shostakovich works. If I recall, the conductor was Rozhdestvensky and maybe the RPO?

I think the general hysteria had an effect on the nerves of the orchestra. The main box for Shostakovich's Cello concerto with Rostropovich contained Shostakovich, Britten and others of similar stature, some of whom I forget now. There's a forte horn entry right at the start of the Cello concerto, and the horn fluffed the entry quite badly. I'm sure he cringed at the memory for the rest of his life.