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Sviastolav Richter Carnegie Hall sessions 1960

Posted by docw (A) on March 13, 2007 at 10:11:04

In the grail article in the last Stereophile regarding searching for rare classical music, the CD cover (pic) is shown of the collated CBS recordings from Carnegie Hall of Richter's recitals from 1960. There is a humorous description of how Richter hated microphones and how they hid them under the stage and even used a Wollensak R2R at 3 3/4 speed to master the tapes.

I have been getting some used LP's from friends, and got a bag of stuff which included Vol II of the Richter recital, on fair to scuffed vinyl, CBS Columbia 6 eye, cover is fair to middlin'. Great closeup of his fingers and picture of the artist inside. I haven't cleaned and listened but don't expect much. It's 10.25.60 & includes Schumann and Debussy and one Haydn piece.

Is this 2 LP set valuable? How is the CD transfer sonically? Just curious.

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