Sviatoslav Richter plays Glazunov Concerto No. 1 (1/4)

[mw392]

Yes, cl427x - it IS scarily like Rach's Symphony in parts!!

[cl427x]

Almost scarily reminiscent of the third movement of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2... though played very nicely and nevertheless beautiful.

[morvensky]

Kiril Kondrashin is such a great conductor and thisa is such a great performance with him and Richter

[Minoru73]

Oh my.. Beautiful!! Does anyone has this concerto's sheet music?

[Sinfoniette]

This is the very first Glazunov piece I ever listened to. Can somebody make recommendations to me on Glazunov? He seems to be a intimidating composer for me to get into...

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Try his ballet: "The Seasons" Philharmonia orch/Evgeny Svetlanov,(by far the greatest interpretation).

Also, his Violin Concerto in A minor, one of the great concertos; for shattering virtuosity try the vintage Heifetz recording,(RCA), or Milstein(if you can find it).

[Sinfoniette]

I never truly got his Violin Concerto near my heart...but I am trying to get Mravinsky's interpretation of the Glazunov 4, 5, 6th Symphonies. I think he recorded the Seasons also. Anyway, thank you.

[Haeronthegreat]

God... it's like the concerto Rachmaninov forgot to write.

[weikko79]

Or didn't know how?

[peterlunow]

Glazunow wrote two !

[imusiciki]

Beautiful!!

[olga2809]

Wow I didn't know Glazunov wrote a piano concerto. It's really beautiful and this recording also sounds nice. (I love Kondrashin and Richter! I have long playing records from them, they're awesome!)

[chad410]

wow. beautifull

[weikko79]

A great concerto. One can only wonder why so few other pianists have played this.

I've never been able to find this recording on LP, btw. One of the most horrible moments in my life was finding an early Soviet late-fifties LP of it...as a shop sign in a used-record shop in Warsaw! The moronic owner had pasted letter all over the LP, so there was no hope of ever playing it again. AARGH!!

[charlottevk]

Thank you truecrypt,it,s very beautiful

[snaaptaker]

Wonderful!! Thank you so much,TC, for your very quick response.

BTW, I know I said earlier (on the R-K page) that recordings of this concerto are extremely rare; but the more I think about it, I'm not sure if I've ever heard ANY other recordings besides this one.

Do you know if there are any others?

[truecrypt]

You are very welcome!

In Richter's discography there are only these:

9/3/49 - Moscow - Live - USSR State O./Agarkov

16/4/51 - Moscow - Live - Moscow Youth S.O./Kondrashin

52 - Leningrad - L.P.O./Eliasberg - LENINGRAD MASTERS LM 1324

14/12/52 - Moscow - Moscow Youth S.O./Kondrashin - MELODIYA/BMG 29468 2 (CD)

I have only 1952 recording.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Elena Glazunov, the composer's daughter, recorded both his concertos, on an old Telefunken disc,(LP 33),with rather dim sound and cautious playing, and a poorly tuned orchestra,(Hamburg Phil.?) This is much better in every way, including the orchestral interpretation. However, i believe there are modern recordings, surely in Hyperion's Romantic series and i'd be surprose if Naxos hadn't yet made its claim on this repertoire.

Great to hear this fine interpretation.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Just checked: modern recordings of both concertos on Hyperion, (S Coombes). Also Naxos,(O. Yablonskaya); Havn't heard either.

[pianophileguy]

@snaaptaker The best recording I've heard is Oxana Yablonskaya's version. Absolutely wonderful!