Richter plays Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 (1951)

[plutokiss]

EASILY one of the best versions I have ever heard. No one else can make those low notes have that perfect volume like Richter. Gonna go over here and die when it ends because the awesome will be over.

[smarlie]

I think this is Richter, the tonality he accentuated the low notes is quite unique.

[plutokiss]

Love the beautiful, accentuated low notes. Definitely not done in the versions to which I often listen.

[bhh1988]

No this is definitely Richter. You can just tell by how it's played in certain parts (compare with other Richter Rach2 recordings)

[Deexxtro]

i do not mind if it's richter or not, this recording is absolutely wonderful.

[7pilant7]

Please, look here:

There is no record of 1951 with Kondrashin. Only with:

Sanderling, Leningrad Philharmonic (Leningrad, 18 Feb 1959)

with Stanislaw Wislocki, Warsaw Philharmonic (Philharmonie, Warsaw, 26 - 28 April 1959)

And one of 1948 with Anosov (Russian record)

Your information is wrong.

[7pilant7]

trovar.com/str/discs/rach.html­

[musicanth]

@7pilant7 Your link doesn't work.

This recording is from the Brilliant Classics Rachmaninoff Edition, the disc with historical recordings of concertos. Brilliant attributes it to Richter, Kondrashin and the Moscow Youth SO (1951) - that much I know. Maybe this is a little known bootleg recording, or maybe your discography is incomplete, or maybe Brilliant Classics is in error.

If you have more information, go ahead provide it - but don't just make assertions and post broken links.

[musicanth]

@7pilant7 And by the way, after two more minutes of searching, I found a trovar.com link that does work - and it shows that Richter and Kondrashin played Rachmaninov's second concerto at the Moscow Conservatory with the Youth Orchestra on April 16, 1951. Other pieces on the program were Rimsky-Korsakov's Op. 30 and Glazunov's Op. 92 concertos.

See for yourself: trovar (dot) com (slash) str/dates/a1951 (dot) html

[7pilant7]

It's not Richter.

There is two audio of 1959 in Warsaw amd Leningrad.

[musicanth]

@7pilant7 I'm not sure what you mean by that, but this recording is by Richter.