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For the 100th anniversary of Sviatoslav Richter, Firma Melodiya presents its arguably biggest project in its semicentennial history: a 50-CD set of Sviatoslav Richters concert s! This collection is far from the complete phonographic legacy of the great musician. Nevertheless, the set includes plenty of exclusive, previously unreleased s that will make the hearts of even most erudite connoisseurs and collectors rejoice. Most of the featured s are broadcasts from the concerts played in Moscow in 1962 to 1983. However, the exceptions are of special interest. These are one of the first Sviatoslav Richter's extant concert programmes Schuberts last sonata and Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition (1949); of the concert with Nina Dorliak in Bucharest, in 1958; and s of home rehearsals with Nina Dorliak. It would be difficult to name all the names of the composers featured in this set. A great a of 20th century music, both domestic and foreign, perhaps deserves special attention: Richter performs Myaskovskys piano sonata, Shostakovichs violin sonata and selected preludes and fugues, as well as works by Hindemith, Bartók, Britten, Berg, Szymanowski, Ravel and Debussy. There are numerous piano pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Prokofiev, a few works by Haydn, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, the first volume of Bachs Well-Tempetered Clavier. Among the rarely performed ones, we should note Dvoráks piano concerto and Francks chamber ensembles. The set includes s of many of Richters ensemble performances with the likes of David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yuri Bashmet, Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, the Borodin Quartet, the USSR Bolshoi Theatre String Quartet, the singer Nina Dorliak and others. The piano concertos played by Richter are conducted by some of the best Soviet conductors such as Kirill Kondin, Evgeny Svetlanov and Rudolf Barshai. The set looks like a black box in the form of a piano with a reading stand made from lined cardboard, containing, apart from 50 CDs, a set of 5 exclusive postcards. The set comes with a hardback booklet in four languages (Russian, English, French, and German), each set is placed in an exclusive bag. Booklet includes texts written by Dmitri Bashkirov and Vladimir Ashkenazy. The set is released in a limited run of one thousand copies and each box has an individual collection number acknowledged with a Certificate of Authenticity.