Latest releases
Bach
475 Jahre Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 - Balakirev: Islamey (Live at the Royal Festival Hall, London)
Tchaikovsky, rimsky-korsakoff, rachmaninov, prokofiev & glazunov: piano concerto - piano concerto no. 1 & no. 2
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
Sviatoslav Richter Plays Piano Works by Beethoven: Choral Fantasy, Op. 80 / Cello Sonatas: No. 1, Op. 5 & No. 2, Op. 5
Sviatolsav Richter plays Russian Composers
Bruckner: Sinfonie No. 3 (Fassung von 1889)
Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 4
Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos by Emil Gilels
Haydn: The Paris Symphonies Nos.82-87
About this artist
German conductor, born 19 September 1912 in Arys, German Empire (today Orzysz, Poland) and died 18 September 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Jewish, he left Germany in 1936, three years after the Nazis came to power, and moved to Stalinꞌs Russia. He relocated to East Germany in 1960. He was permitted to travel to the West, and from 1970, he started recording and giving concerts in the UK and USA. He was awarded the British C.B.E. in 2002. Father of musicians , and .
Chief conductor of the East German Berliner Sinfonie Orchester, 1960-1977.
Chief conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden, 1964-1967