大象传媒

With James Jolly. This week performances by Jiri Belohlavek, chief conductor of the 大象传媒 SO, and an explosive performance of Beethoven's Appassionata Piano Sonata.

10.00
Artist of the Week

Smetana
Overture to The Bartered Bride
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Supraphon 11 0377-2

10.06
Mahler
Blumine
Philadelphia Orchestra (trumpet solo: Gilbert Johnson)
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
RCA 76233

10.13
Mozart
Horn Quintet in E flat, K407
Andrew Clark (natural horn)
Catherine Martin (violin)
Katherine McGillivray & Jane Rogers (violas)
Alison McGillivray (cello)
EMI 5 72822 2

10.30
Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle

When the critics went crazy for Emil Gilels after his US debut in 1955, he modestly said, "Wait till you hear Richter". This reaction to Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter from a fellow musician was not unusual: Van Cliburn said Richter's was "the most powerful piano playing I have ever heard"; Glenn Gould called him "one of the most powerful communicators the world of music has produced in our time"; Dmitri Shostakovich wrote that "Richter is an extraordinary phenomenon. The enormity of his talent staggers and enraptures. All the phenomena of musical art are accessible to him." Today, in our ongoing survey of Beethoven's piano sonatas, we hear Richter in a performance of a work he recorded several times in his career - the justly famous 'Appassionata' (a nickname the piece didn't acquire till after the composer's death). Of this recording, made in 1960, Gramophone magazine wrote that "for sheer boldness of interpretation and brilliance of piano playing it makes one gasp".

Beethoven
Sonata in F minor, op.57 (Appassionata)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
RCA GD86518

10.55
Artist of the Week

Dvorak
Symphony no.6, Op.60
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
Chandos CHAN 9170

Presented by James Jolly
Produced by Chris Barstow
A Classic Arts Production for 大象传媒 Radio 3.

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