Richter’s Beethoven Repackaged

In my review of a five-disc Brilliant Classics boxed set featuring Sviatoslav Richter playing sonatas by Liszt, Schubert, and Beethoven (http://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-10863/) I mentioned that many

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Remastered Richter

Praga’s first release in a series of SACD remasterings devoted to Sviatoslav Richter and Rachmaninov’s music restores the great pianist’s 1955 First concerto and 1959

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Beethoven: Emperor/Uchida

Mitsuko Uchida and Kurt Sanderling’s Beethoven cycle reaches its apex with an “Emperor” concerto that ranks with Schnabel, Solomon, Kempff, Arrau, Fleisher, and Gieseking among

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