Zweifellos ein grosses Meisterwerk ausgeführt mit einem berühmten Orchester, das mit einem kompeteten Dirigenten dirigiert ist. Der Komponist ist der Grösste von allen. Die Sollisten sind die Besten der Welt. Endlich eine perfekte Kombination.
Richter himself said of it: "It's a dreadful recording and I disown it utterly… Battle lines were drawn up with Karajan and Rostropovich on the one side and Oistrakh and me on the other… Suddenly Karajan decided that everything was fine and that the recording was finished. I demanded an extra take. 'No, no,' he replied, 'we haven't got time, we've still got to do the photographs.' To him, this was more important than the recording. And what a nauseating photograph it is, with him posing artfully and the rest of us grinning like idiots."
I read Tom Service's 2009 review in The Guardian of a performance of this concerto in London that he thought made the Triple come alive for him. He refers to "an infamous Herbert von Karajan recording from 1969 with David Oistrakh on violin, Sviatoslav Richter on piano, and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich: it's a nadir of gigantic egos trying to trump each other, a bonfire of the vanities from which Karajan and the Berlin Phil still somehow manage to emerge victorious". He relates the quote "It's a dreadful recording...". From my reading & listening, this is the most admired version of the Triple ever recorded. It appears that Richter didn't like his image in the photograph - if he actually said those words. Tom Service doesn't even think that the Triple is even a concerto. The performance he heard in London "revealed the piece for what it really is: an amplified piano trio, with the orchestra beefing up the textures but often reduced to no more than generic accompaniment". Tom is a colourful writer who doesn't mind being out of step & good luck to him but he can't take away the pleasure I get from this performance.
What a treasure! totally joyfull and perfect thank you Vanja.
I'm glad that you also liked that performance, Andrés.
Zweifellos ein grosses Meisterwerk ausgeführt mit einem berühmten Orchester, das mit einem kompeteten Dirigenten dirigiert ist.
Der Komponist ist der Grösste von allen. Die Sollisten sind die Besten der Welt. Endlich eine perfekte Kombination.
Richter himself said of it: "It's a dreadful recording and I disown it utterly… Battle lines were drawn up with Karajan and Rostropovich on the one side and Oistrakh and me on the other… Suddenly Karajan decided that everything was fine and that the recording was finished. I demanded an extra take. 'No, no,' he replied, 'we haven't got time, we've still got to do the photographs.' To him, this was more important than the recording. And what a nauseating photograph it is, with him posing artfully and the rest of us grinning like idiots."
I read Tom Service's 2009 review in The Guardian of a performance of this concerto in London that he thought made the Triple come alive for him. He refers to "an infamous Herbert von Karajan recording from 1969 with David Oistrakh on violin, Sviatoslav Richter on piano, and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich: it's a nadir of gigantic egos trying to trump each other, a bonfire of the vanities from which Karajan and the Berlin Phil still somehow manage to emerge victorious". He relates the quote "It's a dreadful recording...".
From my reading & listening, this is the most admired version of the Triple ever recorded. It appears that Richter didn't like his image in the photograph - if he actually said those words.
Tom Service doesn't even think that the Triple is even a concerto. The performance he heard in London "revealed the piece for what it really is: an amplified piano trio, with the orchestra beefing up the textures but often reduced to no more than generic accompaniment".
Tom is a colourful writer who doesn't mind being out of step & good luck to him but he can't take away the pleasure I get from this performance.
A Historical Version, with the three great rusians musicians of the Twenty Century!
Sono un perfetto ignorante di musica, in genere, ma sentendo il triplo concerto in C maggiore, ho pianto!
NO!