Richter plays Liszt’s Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2 with the LSO Conducted by Kondrashin
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COMPOSERS: Liszt
LABELS: Alto
ALBUM TITLE: Liszt
WORKS: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2; Hungarian Fantasy
PERFORMER: Richter (piano); LSO/Kondrashin
CATALOGUE NO: ALC 1332 (1958-61)
Classic accounts of the concertos of magisterial flair; but it is the solo numbers, including dazzling accounts of Gnomenreigen and Feux follets, that galvanise attention.
Julian Haylock
Authors
Julian Haylock is the former editor of CD Review and International Piano Magazines and reviews of CD Classics Magazine. He is also the author of biographies on Mahler, Rachmaninov and Puccini, and co-author of the Haylock and Waugh pocket guides to Classical Music on CD and Opera Music on CD.