On this recording, Sviatoslav Richter with Orchestra perform the following selections:
Bach, J S:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV1050, with Oleg Kagan (violin) & Marina Vorozhtsova (flute)and the Moscow Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, Yuri Nikolayevsky conducting.
Haydn:
Keyboard Concerto in D major, H. 18/11, with the Minsk Chamber Orchestra, Yuri Tsyiruk conducting.
Scriabin:
Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Op. 60, with the All-Union Radio and Central Television Large Chorus & USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov conducting.
The opportunity to see Richter in live performance is a treasure. It’s even more exciting to see him in two major works by favorite composers which do not exist in audio-only recordings.
Here is Sviatoslav Richter, performing the music of Bach:
