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title: "December Nights [Sviatoslav Richter, Anatoly Kamyshev] [Melodiya: MELCD 1002204]"
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# December Nights [Sviatoslav Richter, Anatoly Kamyshev] [Melodiya: MELCD 1002204]

**Brand:** sviatoslav richteranatoly kamyshevoleg kagannatalia gutmanyuri bashmetrobert schumannfranz schubertfrédéric chopinnone
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- **What is this?** December Nights [Sviatoslav Richter, Anatoly Kamyshev] [Melodiya: MELCD 1002204] by sviatoslav richteranatoly kamyshevoleg kagannatalia gutmanyuri bashmetrobert schumannfranz schubertfrédéric chopinnone
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Firma Melodiya continues the series of compact discs dedicated to December Evenings Festival that takes place at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. This album, like the previous one, is dedicated to the 1985 festival World of Romanticism and includes recordings featuring Sviatoslav Richter.The atmosphere of December Evenings, an event initiated by the great pianist, differed from usual philharmonic concerts. The spirit of music as an inseparable part of fusion of arts the romanticists dreamt of was invisibly felt in each number; a sensitive listener can catch it in these, perhaps technically imperfect, concert recordings from thirty years ago.&#xA0;The works by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin were performed by Sviatoslav Richter in ensemble with his outstanding contemporaries, violinist and David Oistrakhs student Oleg Kogan who passed away prematurely, violist Yuri Bashmet, cellist Natalia Gutman and clarinettist Anatoly Kamyshov. Along with popular compositions (Chopins Polonaise-fantaisie, ballade and cello suite, and Schuberts sonata for violin and piano), the programme featured works which were less known to the audience Schumanns Piano Trio, his late opuses Fairy Tale Pictures, Op. 113 for viola and piano, and Fantasy Pieces, Op. 73, in their original version for clarinet and piano.












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Captivating live performances. Performance **** Recording *** --BBC Music Magazine, Jan&apos;15

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## Customer Reviews

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    Glorious spontaneity combined with a grasp of structure
  

*by I***E on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 November 2014*

Joyous music making.  Richter here plays with close friends, including the great cellist Natalia Gutman, and the result is glorious.  Often performances of romantic chamber music captured on disc are slightly dry;  many takes produces note-perfection but eliminates the spontaneous flow of the music.  In these live performances, the accuracy is fine, but what emerges is great warmth, passion and a quality that I can only describe as 'organic'.  The musicians have a grasp of the overall shape of the work so that what emerges, even in so loose a work as the Chopin cello sonata, is truly classical:  that is the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.  This is great music making.  The recording quality is rather close and not of the best, but that is my only criticism.

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    Richter and friends on top form
  

*by S***Y on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 December 2014*

Superb music making. I can only echo what the previous reviewer said except that the recording is really not at all bad. So I give it 5 stars to redress the balance.This is probably the best performance on disc of Schumann's passionate and difficult first piano trio (played by Richter with the husband and wife team of Kagan and Gutman), and one of the few performances of the Chopin cello sonata (Richter and Gutman) that balances passion with structure, a hard work to sound convincing and balanced. The booklet says Richter had a cold when he played the Chopin Polonaise Fantasie and Ballade 4 and that he thought his performances only 'passable'. As usual he was his own worst critic and he plays superbly. Indeed, sometimes Richter thrived on adversity.

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