J.S. Bach, Svyatoslav Richter - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Part I flac album

3-LP set coming in a linen cardboard box with a 2-page booklet in English. Each LP in a poly inner sleeve and an outer white paper sleeve with central round holes and the logo Мелодия printed in the right upper corner. Duration not mentioned.

Like all Richter's other Bach recordings, everything about Richter's performance is unsurpassed in the repertoire: Richter's Well-Tempered Clavier is characterized by its intellectual rigor and spiritual austerity and one can hear the voice of infinity singing in his playing. But the sound was then and, unfortunately, still is now extremely difficult to take, even for Richter fans who will take almost any amount of noise and distortion to hear their idol.

Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier - Richter (1992). Sviatoslav Richter - Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier - Richter.

This "complete" Richter project did not come to fruition, however, although twelve LPs worth of recordings were pressed between 1970 and 1973 and were subsequently re-issued (in CD format) by Olympia (various composers, 10 CDs) and RCA (Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier). In 1961, Richter's recording with Erich Leinsdorf and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 won the Grammy Award for Best Classical Performance – Concerto or Instrumental Soloist. Memorable statements by Richter. On listening to Bach: "It does no harm to listen to Bach from time to time, even if only from a hygienic standpoint. On Scriabin: "Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heavy liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.

BACHTHE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, Book 1 (BWV 846-869)KIMIKO ISHIZAKA, PIANO. The open well-tempered clavier. Kimiko Ishizaka is a German-Japanese pianist who brings a vivid imagination and poignantly structured interpretation to the music of Bach and Chopin. a gifted and obviously devoted Bachian – James R. Oestreich, New York Times.

Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Maurizio Pollini. Listen on Apple Music. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1. Angela Hewitt. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli - Brahms, Schubert & Beethoven. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (The 1955 & 1981 Recordings). Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Pièces de clavecin, 1728.