the Liszt ? of course.... I listened to the Paganini variations of Brahms the other day in the Doremi release.... and I remember some discussion on the...
... considered anyone else. For Totentanz, Janis/Reiner is superb! ... Heartily agree about the brilliance of the Richter/Kondrashin concertos. I'd be most...
Dear Group, I know it's short notice, but I let you know anyway. In remembrance of Richter today at 3 pm cet (German time) the German radio station BR4...
Dear all, Pushkin museum has published in Russian with a minor delay the Richter diaries/logbooks as they were written - bravo, thanks Irina Antonova! - and...
Dear Antti, Thanks for your posting, and for your tireless efforts to get your Richter book published. Inasmuch as most of us do not know Danish, aside from...
Dear Morton and others, Even if there is still some way to go before the English edition is in market, I'd be deeply surprised if the English edition wasn't...
List members may be interested in this link - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T0H6ZT7P This is the second half (Britten and Shostakovich) of Bashmet and ...
Doremi have just issued a new 2-cd set (Vol. 14, DHR-7909/10) in their Sviatoslav Richter Archives series. Richter plays Mozart's Piano Concertos no. 14, 15,...
... Just one little correction: Actually there is a very small village named Polling in Austria ("A-4951 Polling im Innkreis"), but I guess that Richter played...
I have noticed 5 volumes from the above series in a local store and wanted to inquire about the sound and also how the performances compare to other recordings...
good sound. great playing.... of course this is early 50s.... but I always liked 50s sound..... if you only know his recordings of the 1960s of these pieces...
Thanks, Dmitri. I have read some good reports elsewhwere and plan to get some of these volumes tomorrow as a birthday present for myself. I haven't got the "In...
Hello, For Richter fans who are in the area of Montreux, Switzerland, there is a photographic exhibit "Portraits and Legends", which includes some rare and...
Dear George, Be sure first to get the volumes containing Schumann (Humoreske+ACE-) and Liszt items. They're indispensable. And the DGG set you mentioned is...
Hi there, just ordered the 1970-studio-recording of the well-tempered-clavier by Richter - what am I to expect in respect to his own criticism of this ...
I have a good story that a former colleague of mine relayed to me years back.....it goes as such: Richter was a juror for a particular competition. His...
From www.culturecatch.com At the first (1958) International Tchaikovsky Piano competition, where Richter was a judge (and Soviet artists were expected to...
Yes, I heard that it was at the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958, and that he gave Cliburn a 100 and everyone else a zero. From what I gathered, Richter hated...
Hi, Richter gave Van Cliburn a 100, and all the other 1958 contestants a zero. Gilels spoke with Kruschev to complain about Richter. Kruschev asked Gilels if...
Ola, The photos are by Mr. Jacques Leiser, from his archives: If you search in net his name one can easily find the link to his archives, but if the photos...
Thanks for your message. That's a posssibility which I would be happy to consider. It would be best if we could be in communication about this after Sept. 16...
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