Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 - Sviatoslav Richter, piano - Leinsdorf Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Pure DSD

This was my very first LP!

At the age of 16 my parents gave me my first stereo system. My local record shop had RCA Victorola LP’s which here in the UK cost 99p. I wore out the first and second copies and this performance by Richter has always been special to me, in particular the first and third movements. I only wish I could play like Richter! Being a lesser mortal I will make do with the excellent DSD transfer.

동일 곡에 다른 음질이 주는 재미

동일곡의 다른 음원과 확연히 다른 사운드를 느낄수 있게 해준다. 곡 자체야 말이 필요없다. 브람스가 아닌가!

The October Richter-Revolution...

A whole piano revolution was launched in the west (meaning USA) in October and early November 1960. Richter had arrived. He came and conquered. Both in Chicago, where RCA recorded the Brahms Piano Concerto No 2 and New York, where he launched his career outside Russia with performances, not of the usual piano career intros of Tchaikovsky or Grieg, but a bunch of Beethoven Piano Sonatas. Audiences were mesmerised but Richter didn’t appreciate their ardour. He never went back to the US and he didn’t like his recording of the Brahms 2nd Piano Concerto either. No one seems to know why, other that he hated committing any of his interpretations to record. If there’s one overriding consideration, his hundreds of recordings have stood the test of time and most have never been out of print. This superb recording of the Brahms second - described by some as a Symphony in 4 movements with piano accompaniment - is, nearly 60 years later, refreshingly brilliant. Its remastering by HDTT is superb.