I got my "enigma" video out yesterday and was watching. The beginning of Part II opens with Slava performing the Variations Serieuses. I don''t know how I...
Hi - Does anyone know how I can get a copy of AS DISC 335/336 (a 2 CD Set) containing Richter's performances of the Beethoven Pano Concerto No. 1 and the...
Hi All, I was wondering if people would be interested in BW-photographs I made of him during his recitals (to be precise just afterwards)in the Netherlands...
It would be wonderful for you to post some 1990's picture of the maestro. I should get around to posting my letter from Richter 1980. Thank you for thinking...
hello Victor, For sure, we are most interested by your photographs! Maybe you can post them in the Database section of the newsgroup? Best regards, Thierry ......
I somehow have the feeling that Victor is not thinking of just "sharing" his photos with us. Taking them might have involved quite a lot of work. Maybe we ...
Dear Friends, Can anyone provide a list of dates and venues of Richter's performances in the film? I don't think this information is in the inlay. Best...
can someone who has the Richter and Sofronitsky Urania releases state whether these are "classic" Italian pirates (viz., re-release of other labels' issues) or...
Regarding the comparison between the Denon and Italian labels, in the case of the Sofronitsky, there were some Arlecchino recordings, which weren't included on...
Dear group, can somebody advise me on the best version of this work: Brahms, Sonata for Violin no. 3 in d, opus 108, with Oistrakh: 1. Paris, 4 Dec 1968 (Le...
A Russian acquaintance of mine tells me that he heard Richter play the Prokofiev 2nd Piano Concerto in Moscow, a long time ago. He also said that he once...
The Prokofiev Second Concerto is not listed in Monsaingeon's book in his very extensive repertoire list. However, I remember reading a biography of Prokofiev -...
hello Larry, No trace of this concerto neither on http://www.doremi.com/sr.html nor in monsaingeon's "Notes and conversations"... It seems quite unlikely he...
When surfing with the search robots, I came to think if there is to be found anything of the Richter-cousin, Friedrich Reincke. Not much, but my own scribling...
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In the latest edition of The Economist, there is a review of a novel by James Wood which, according to the reviewer, contains a poignant passage about the...
Dear Friends, According to Yakov Milstein, Richter told him in 1973 that he was learning Hammerklavier, one of "the three whales" that he had yet to learn -...
Dear Paul, in your chronology for 29/March/79 you show Richter playing at Rochester. This is not quite right. Abbotsholme School is in a village called...
Hi All, Finally I manges to scan and Upload one of the photos I made when Richter was in the Netherlands in October 1992. He played a Chopin- Scriabin program...
Dear Richter friends, there must have been a few "Lieder"-recitals Sviatoslav Richter gave with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Does anybody have some informations ...
A possible answer to Alphonz: Schwarzkopf and Richter definitely wanted to give a recital together. Schumann Liederabend was planned during the "Karintische...
Dear group, I recently read with great interest an article about Richter by Joachim Kaiser ("Great pianists of the world", 1983 London). Here are some excerpts...
Hello Victor, Thanks for sharing this photo with us. An old man, but so Olympian. How was the recital? Was it a good day for the Maestro? Best regards, Thierry...
Thiery raises an interesting point concerning critical writings about Richter. The truth is that Richter's most easily accessible recordings (Philips, EMI etc)...
Dear friends , R.U.S.C.I.C.O. Russian Cinema Council http://www.ruscico.com/about_eng.php released a double DVD on the Borodin Quartet , direct link to the...
While perusing the Elly Ney pages at http://www.proclassics.de/EllyNey/elly-ney-1e.htm i came across the following commnent by the critic (?) Ludwig Hoelscher:...
Dear friends , I have been informed that a new CD containing an all Chopin programme dated 6 June 1950 has been just relased by a new label called Ankh ( that...
Dear Group I checked the site and the concert is actually dated June 19th, which makes it identical to the concert released on Russian Masters volume 9. You...
The web page for this company says this is a first time release for this material, and yet a brief check at Ates discography says otherwise! 19/6/50 - Moscow -...
Hello Davide, Isn't that 19 June, 1950? And is this program similar to RUSSIAN MASTERS RM 09? In any case, the mp3's are promising! Best regards, Thierry ... ...