Sviatoslav Richter, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf, 1961.
Once upon a time, there was an amazing pianist named Svaitoslav Richter.
He played with passion, presence and red-hot intensity.
He met a man named Erich Leinsdorf who led a merry but fearsome band called the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Together, taking turns to lead and listening very carefully to the direction of the music, they performed and recorded the epic Piano Concerto No.2 in Bb by Johannes Brahms, a revered ancestor who had passed on nearly a century ago.
The music lived!
Blood pumped through all arteries and veins and the truth that had been scrolled into the notation of the concerto came to life and spoke out, sometimes in the waterfall clarity of the piano, at other times in the soothing blanket of cello sound, and yet again as the clarion call of a brace of French Horns.
Through melancholy, through reverie, through celebration and through triumph, pianist, conductor, orchestra, composer and listener were united.
The music lives happily ever after!
A 20/10 experience.
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