Dear Davide, Is all the piano work on this new Urania performed by Richter, including the Chorale Fantasy? Albert [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Happy New Year to all the very special members of this group, I have spent yesterday enjoying CD of Maria Pires playing Schubert piano pieces and impromptus....
Dear Albert , As for M. J. Pires please read this message http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/7335 . And add she considers Richter the...
... And I will wish a happy New Year to all those less-than special members of this group. Coincidentally, I have also spent these past few cold winter days...
According to one of the polls running on this site, Andras Schiff apparently said something outrageous about Richter and his Haydn interpretations. Having...
Jay, Schiff's posturing (and playing for that matter) is pretty insignificant in my book, always has been, always will be so it hardly matters what he thinks,...
Thanks, Mal. I agree, Andras' statements are not particularly interesting after all (much like the recordings of his that I have heard). I am reminded of that...
Dear members, I have just received the whole box set with the Kiev recordings and I´m a bit surprised because the metallic sound of them. I read the message...
Dear Alex, The only recording that has become a common source for both TNC records (rel. 2002) and RM (rel. 1999) is Yudina's recital in Kiev. AFAIK, no ...
I picked up a strange encore cd (legato) the other day that i had not seen before, containing encores from live concerts, featuring backhaus (NY,30/3/54)...
Dear members, A new label, "Scora Classics" has released 6 separate CDs containing live performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
Dear Boris, ... I'm afraid this is off topic. But I'll answer your question. The work recorded in this disc is the Third Symphony by Roy Harris. Unfortunately...
Dear Yasuhiko, Many thanks for your kind help and efforts of A/B comparison. I really appreciated them. I am also grateful for quoting (translation of) the ...
Dear Friends, For an urgent research project, I would like to know of any authoritative print references to the marital status of Sviatoslav Richter and Nina...
Leslie Gerber
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Jan 30, 2004 12:47 am
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Dear Les, I have no authoritative references now, but perhaps Richter's nephew can help you. He is [ or was ] a member of the S. Richter group. (Mr....
... That Richter was gay is just a rumor. ... No, it was not Nina who did this, but Nina's nephew. He paid off some officials in Moscow to perform this...
Dear Leslie, In addition to Morton information: "Somehowit happened that from the fall (of 1945-EZ) myself (Nina Dorliak-EZ) and Sviatoslav Theophilovich began...
Documentation of these assertions would be extremely helpful to me, particularly the one about the posthumous wedding. Can anyone help? Leslie Gerber...
Leslie Gerber
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Jan 30, 2004 11:31 pm
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Has anyone bought this, or is anyone able to supply information on these recitals? This seems to duplicate the material on the Beethoven Melodiya disc, but I...
Dear Davide: I discovered that Richter's Olympia recordings reissued by Regis Records LTD. CD's of Regis Records are relatively cheap. I would like to hear...
... am ... Couldn't agree more. I don't have a very high opinion of Mr Schiff's piano playing either (I think he is one of the most boring pianists I have ever...
I suggest we close this topic with Richter's words on Brendel (when the latter said that Grieg is for housewives): May God have mercy for him! Best regards, ...
Dear Friends: New book from Valentina Chemberdgy 'O Rikhtere ego slovami' ('Richter in his own words') is now issued by Publishing house Agraf in Russian....
Sorry, this is OT Is there any chance of these books ever getting translated. I have even considered the possibility of learning Russian in my old age, as I am...
... Dear Maria, We are working with getting published the three small but genuine Richter- books (about his early childhood as written and illustrated by his...
Antti Sairanen
antti.sairanen@...
Feb 9, 2004 8:07 pm
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Hi, Yuri, (instead of Davide) here is my humble opinion! I have 3 of these Regis CDs: RRC 1022 with Rachmaninov etudes-tableaux and preludes; 1049; with two...
Dr. Yuri Kligerman wrote:...." I discovered that Richter's Olympia recordings reissued by Regis Records LTD. CD's of Regis Records are relatively cheap. I...
I notice there isn't, yet, a Chopin Scherzi/Schumann Bunte Blätter disc out on Regis. I've seen the Olympia version of this coupling go for over $100 on...
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