Sviatoslav Richter plays Bartok Concerto No. 2 in G major (3/3)

[ernestogasperini]

I'm sorry, but in front of the Mozart piano concertos (n°20 and n°24 first of all), this music is without meaning. I'm so sorry.

[truecrypt]

This one is with Maazel...

[keybawd]

Thank you. Wonderful playing from Richter but I can understand that he was a bit upset by the orchestra which is often ragged. Thank you for all your marvelous postings.

[keybawd]

ok, truecrypt, which performance is this? SR recorded it in 58 with Ferencsik. (Apparently there was a split high C in the trumpet in mov 2 . Not here but it might have been edited out.). He recorded it at Royan with Iwaki (he described it as "a disaster"). He recorded it in Moscow with Svetlanov (no comment from SR). And with Maazel in Paris. He wrote "The orchestra proved so dreadful I feel sick just thinking of it!" Sadly for us, he was always let down by his orchestras and by his recordings