Title: Atrocious recording quality
Product review: I found any appreciation of Richter's phenomenal ability virtually impossible because of the terrible quality of the recording of this CD (and I enjoy his performance of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition", even though the recording quality is quite poor there also). But something has gone seriously wrong with this CD -- there is the usual bronchial Russian audience, but I can overlook that. It is the sound itself, which is badly distorted, with digital clicks -- this leads me to believe that the problem arises from a very poor re-mastering. Richter also recorded Beethoven's 3rd Concerto for Deutche Gramophon with the Vienna SO conducted by Sanderling, in the 60's. Surely they will reissue this recording soon -- it is the one to wait for, unless a new re-mastering can salvage the Kondrashin one.
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