Symphony No 2 / Piano Concerto No 3 (Rec 1950s) DELETED FROM AUG 2006
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Symphony No 2 / Piano Concerto No 3 (Rec 1950s) DELETED FROM AUG 2006
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra / Wiener Philharmoniker; Kurt Sanderling
[ DG Musik ... Sprache der Welt / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 12 August 2004
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When Kurt Sanderling (*1912) left Germany for the Soviet Union in 1936, he was able to take only a few personal belongings with him, but these items included the scores of the works that were closest to his heart: Brahms's symphonies, Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde and all nine Beethoven symphonies.
Twenty years later he returned to the West for the first time on a concert tour as conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. As he later explained, there was "astonishment at the fact that an orchestra from the East not only played well but were wonderfully together and that the players wore patent-leather shoes".
The interpretation of Beethoven's Second Symphony documented here was recorded in Vienna during this tour. The recording of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto with Sviatoslav Richter was made six years later, when Sanderling was principal conductor of the Berlin Symphony Orchestra.
