Sunday Classics update: You can now hear the whole of Sviatoslav Richter's Liszt "Hungarian Fantasia"

Maybe we ought to start paying the people who do the technical work here at DWT better -- you know, a little closer to minimum wage -- especially the lunks in the Quality Control Dept. How the hell did those clowns let performance of the Liszt Hungarian Fantasia by Sviatoslav Richter and Kiril Kondrashin go out in this week's Sunday Classics piece ("The piano-and-orchestra Liszt -- the orator meets the poet") with only the first two of its three CD tracks included, thereby omitting the final 3:28 of the piece and making nonsense of my reference to the dropped notes as well as the "hurricane force" of the final section, "when all hell breaks loose"?

I tell you, those people are lucky we're not right-wingers, or they would have to be hoping their papers are all in order when the INS inspectors show up.

It's now been corrected in the original post. And here's the complete performance. -- Ken

LISZT: Hungarian Fantasia for Piano and Orchestra

Sviatoslav Richter, piano; London Symphony Orchestra, Kiril Kondrashin, cond. Live performance, 1961

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