Kirill Kondrashin

And with Franz Liszt's first piano concerto from 1855, he did just that.

After his US tour in 1960, Richter made his first tour of the United Kingdom the following year, and during that time he made a recording of the Liszt Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra with the conductor Kirill Kondrashin.

Somewhat oddly, also on loan to the West from the Soviet Union.

Here is the opening six minutes of Sviatoslav Richter playing Franz Liszt's first piano concerto.

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That was the opening of Franz Liszt's first piano concerto.

Sviatoslav Richter played the piano and Kirill Kondrashin conducted the London Symphony Orchestra.

So Richter was in his mid-forties when he was finally allowed to regularly tour outside the USSR, though he would significantly prefer the UK and Western Europe over the US.

In the play, a character talks about the music she's hearing, and it gives her a feeling somewhere between sorrow and joy.

Here is Masquerade, performed by the RCA Symphony Orchestra with conductor Kirill Kondrashin.

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[on-hold music]Incidental music to Masquerade by Aram Khachaturian.

Kirill Kondrashin led the RCA Symphony Orchestra.

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