Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Nos 19, 20
22, 23, 30, 31 and 32
Recorded 1991 and 1992
When I hear Sviatoslav Richter playing the piano, romantic poets like Goethe, Baudelaire, Poe, Tennyson, Leopardi or Hoffmansthal do not come to mind; the one who comes to mind is the great American poet Wallace Stevens, who as artists like Saint-John Perse or Eugenio Montale proposed a new worldview of modern man. Here is a fragment of his poem The Blue Guitar, which is overwhelmingly topical.
Things as they are have been destroyed.
Have I? Am I a man that is dead
At a table on which the food is cold?
Is my thought a memory, not alive?
Is the spot on the floor, there, wine or blood
And whichever may be, is it mine?
Piano Sonatas K 280, 283,W. A. Mozart
333, 457 and 533
Fantasia K 475
Recorded 1966 and 1991
Alexander Scriabin
Poeme-Nocturne, Deux Danses
Vers la Flamme
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 and 6
Dmitri Shostakovich
Selection from 24 Preludes ad Fugues
Recorded 1963 and 1993
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Nos. 18 and 28
Piano and Wind Quintet
Two Rondos op. 51
Piano Trio No. 7
Borodin SQ
Moragues Wind Quintet
Recorded 1986 , 1992 and 1993
Franz Schubert
Piano Sonatas D. 575, 840
and 894
Recorded 1979
F. J. Haydn
Piano Sonatas Nos. 24 and 52
C. M. von Weber
Piano Sonata No. 3
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Piano Sonatas Nos. 9, 11, 12 and 27
Recorded 1963 and 1993
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