CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Classics (Symphony)      

Venue, Teatro del Bibbiena, Mantova, Italy

Recording Date: 2/1987

This is a live concert recording Richter made in Italy in 1987, though Decca has edited out the applause so that the recording sounds almost studio-like in its crystalline clarity. Richter was already 72 when this recording was made, and has obviously lost none of his technical brilliance, while his interpretive skills - his ability to see the entire arching composition as an organic whole - are unrivalled. I'm not a huge fan of Brahms 2nd sonata, I think it is compositionally weak compared to the 1st and 3rd, but I have not heard a performance of Brahms 1st Sonata to come close to this. Schumann called these piano sonatas of Brahms "veiled symphonies"...very evident in the 3rd sonata, but also here in the 1st. If you love Richter, or the Brahms piano sonatas, this recording is, in my humble opinion, indispensable! Richter pulls sounds out of the piano I've never heard from anyone...while the compositions are orchestral, few pianists can produce the sonic richness and subtlety like Richter.

- Peter Dick (Toronto, Canada)