Most listeners who know Sviatoslav Richter's recordings probably already know his famous performance of Schubert's final B flat major Sonata from the June 1964 Aldeburgh Festival. As one English critic said at the time, "it was a performance of lifetime" -- and the passing years have done nothing to diminish that judgment. As released here on BBC Music, Richter's B flat major Sonata has mysterious depths and ecstatic mysteries that few others have ever approached. His enormous intensity, his immense concentration, his ...
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Most listeners who know Sviatoslav Richter's recordings probably already know his famous performance of Schubert's final B flat major Sonata from the June 1964 Aldeburgh Festival. As one English critic said at the time, "it was a performance of lifetime" -- and the passing years have done nothing to diminish that judgment. As released here on BBC Music, Richter's B flat major Sonata has mysterious depths and ecstatic mysteries that few others have ever approached. His enormous intensity, his immense concentration, his unequalled ability to make every line sing and every harmony sound, and his unsurpassed genius for bringing out the full and complete meaning of every gesture make this recording one of the most harrowing performances of the B flat major Sonata ever made -- and most listeners who know Richter probably already know this recording from one of its many previous incarnations.But even listeners who know Richter might not know the recordings of the two works that precede the B flat Sonata on...
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