Description
ProfiI Edition Gunter Hanssler is progressively releasing alI the recordings th at the great Russian virtuoso Sviatoslav Richter made in his Sturm und Drang period bet ween 1945 and 1963. Most of them were largely unknown in the West during the Cold War, as Richter could only perform until 1960 behind the Iron Curtain", that is to say, in the Soviet Union and the satellite states of Eastern Europe. Profil Edition Gunter Hanssler has already released CD box sets with Richter's interpretations of works by Ludwig van Beethoven (PH 16030), Franz Schubert (PH 17005), Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms (PH 17967), Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin (PH 18041) and Sergei Rachmaninov and Sergei Prokofiev (PH 19052).