Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues for Piano, Op. 87

Richter, Sviatoslav;
Gilels, Emil;
Nikolayeva, Tatiana;

PH 20054

Profil Edition Günter Hänssler is progressively releasing all the recordings that the great Russian virtuoso Sviatoslav Richter made in his Sturm und Drang period between 1945 and 1963. Most of them were largely unknown in the West during the Cold War, as Richter could only perform till 1960 behind the “Iron Curtain”, that is to say, in the Soviet Union and the satellite states of Eastern Europe. Profil Edition Günter Hänssler has already released CD box sets with Richter‘s interpretations of works by Ludwig van Beethoven (PH 16030), Franz Schubert (PH 17005), Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms (PH 17967), Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin (PH 18041) and Sergei Rachmaninov and Sergei Prokofiev (PH 19052). • The present 5-CD set is devoted to the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who like the composers listed above was an accomplished pianist. The interpretations of Sviatoslav Richter have been complemented by recordings of Emil Gilels and Tatyana Nikolayeva. Another highlight of this collection are interpretations of Dmitri Shostakovich, playing his own compositions

CD x 5

Muzyka klasyczna

Profil Medien

31-08-2020

0881488200546

ICMA Award: 'Historical' (2020)