Hi everyone, Some good news. Decca/Universal (Germany) is releasing "Richter - The Master", a three volumen series, this month at special price. - Vol. 1:...
just heard the Sokolov recording of Op.25..... this is a giant. unfortunatly this discovery comes to late for me.... my pantheon of pianists is full ;-) by the...
Dear all, The publication of the Richter biography has been postponed to the 4th of August 2007, due overwhelming amount of unique photo materials and the work...
Hi, I have just come back from a trip to Moscow. I had the chance to see the Richter Memorial Apartment on Bolshaya Bronnaya. There were only 3 of us and the...
Hello! Thanks, whoever you are, for whetting my appetite to see this once and again proud city and one of its most famous and interesting attractions. Please...
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Apr 29, 2007 6:58 pm
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Hi, My name is Peter and I live in Rochester (UK) The tour was in Russian, and I had my wonderful girlfriend as a translator. However, I really think a non...
... Richter had no wife, in the usual sense. He and Nina Dorliac never married while he was alive. Some six months after he died, she went through some sort of...
Dear Peter, Richard from NYC here. Thanks for the kind response to my query in re your trip to SR's apartment and Moscow, in general. Since you have not seen...
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May 1, 2007 2:38 am
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Hi, I do not know about this CBC Toronto Film. The 2 DVD's I have are "The December Nights" and the Richter the Enigma. I have also watched an Estonian...
What I remember best about him was his sheer delight in producing rapture for his audience (no matter what he has said about his lack of success in the USA, he...
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May 1, 2007 10:11 pm
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I'm hoping someone in this group might be able to tell me how the sound is on this CD set? I've long owned the LPs but, unfortunately, my LPs aren't in the...
I have it. Sound is ok. Some of the CD's sound a bit like an LP transfer. Overall its acceptable. I still marvel at that intensity of playing every time I...
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May 5, 2007 12:52 pm
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Dear Paula, ... I only have 2 of the LPs. Though the sound quality of them was very bad (from the beginning) I've always enjoyed listening to them. So, as a ...
Does the set include all the encores, pray tell? Because those were special, too, as I remember from having been to 2 of the concerts. Rich in NYC....
RJMACE@...
May 6, 2007 4:12 am
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I haven't heard good things from a friend whose opinion I absolutely respect. I forget what he said about the sound, but he was VERY dissapointed with the ...
Dear Lou, I too am used to a lot of bad sound--but, I have to admit, I don't listen to my LPs much anymore. I have found a lot of CD companies horribly...
Hi Paula (and other SR enthusiasts,) I am very pleased with the set. Of course, my LPs were nearly worn out. I know a couple of other people who also bought...
I am sorry that most probably most of the kind participants to this List are
non-speaking (or reading) italian language because on this link: http://www...
There were also some comments on this set last year (message #8926 and on). Considering it's pirate 'historical' recordings the sound isn't too bad in my...
Dear Friends, The Doremi 6-CD set is, hands-down, a must for Richter collectors. I personally spoke by phone in 1977 to Schuyler Chapin, who produced these...
Dear Group, The latest CD by Doremi in the Sviatoslav Richter Archives Series (DHR- 7789) contains the following performances of works by Robert Schumann: -...
It was always my impression that the recordings were never released because of some dispute with Carnegie Hall over rights. I know how thorny the Met Opera is...
Hello All, I have just been playing my LPs of Richter and Oistrakh doing the Brahms violin sonatas and find that they are wearing out. Can anyone tell me what...
Firstly, I really owe an apology to the good folks at DOREMI for saying that they advertised Richter's concerted playing order on their release of the Carnegie...
I understand that 3 volumes from this series were released yesterday. Are these the same performances that were out as part of the "Authorized edition?" The...
I have bought Amadeus Magazine No.66, It contains a CD, the cover of CD can be found in this page: http://www.trovar.com/str/covers/Philips.html The catalog...
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