Dear all, I have reached a deal with Gyldendal allowing me to offer the Danish first printing of the Richter biography at a better price than the book is sold...
I wanted bring to your attention a blog by an Italian friend, Corrado Grandis, devoted to Richter: http://sviatoslavrichter.blogspot.com/ I hope you can take a...
Yesterday I received this new Russian book published by Pushkin Museum (only 1000 copies). It contains Richter's diaries from 1970 to 1995, reproductions of...
Hi Dmiti, Do you know any way to get this book? Any Internet store or any possibility? Any information would be helpful. Thank you, Lev. ... From: kulginoff ...
Does anyone know if one can buy tickets for the concerts of this competition? Is anyone going there or attending? www.richtercompetition.com/2008/ Björn...
Hello everyone, I think Richter would have approved of the sincere, if somehow not enigmatic, renderings of the Prokofiev-sonatas by young Peter Dimitriew,...
Dear Group Members: For those who have not heard Richter's last playing of the Bach Well- Tempered Clavier in live 1973 concerts in Innsbruck, there are a few ...
I will contact during the coming weekend all those who have approached me for getting send a copy of the Danish first print of the Richter bio. If any other is...
Dear Friends, the German radio station NDR Kultur will start a portrait on Richter tomorrow at 6 p.m. (CET / UTC +1:00). The programme will be broadcast in ...
Can only recommend! Heard the first part by sheer luck. Our dinner guest was delayed, I decided to hear the German radio news at NDR and got to hear after the...
Good news for those who missed the first episode or who would like to hear it again. It is available as a so-called loopstream until Sunday, January 13. First...
Hello, I just joined the group ; it's why I answer a bit late to your question. I was in Japan around 1993/1994 and found the Melodiya record of Brahms piano...
It seems the research for this Richter program series has been reasonably well done. The second program in the series offered again some fabulous playing -...
I got today the extra copies and will post on Friday to those members in our group who have confirmed their interest to get this biography. If any further...
Hi All, I'm trying to re-find the Richter's performance of Liszt's Piano Sonata that was published on CD by the Italian label Nuova Era about 20 years ago. ...
I spent the christmas holiday reading Rasmussens biography on Richter, and it was indeed very interesting. I think I managed 90% of the Danish (I am Swedish...
... Hi Andrea, Nuova Era was a pseudonym of the Italian AS company, who also had further names to confuse the public. I have AS - 342 and 345, both of which...
Dear Björn, You are so very wellcome and we thank for the kind words. But let me make one correction: this book is not a new Richter biography, but the very...
Dear Andrea and Morton, I have the Nuova Era 013.6340 in my possession. The confusion about the Liszt Sonata comes from the following: On the Nuova Era c.d....
Hi Morton, thanks for your answer and explanation. I agree with you, the best stereo version of that concert is the BBC's official one, I have got it too,...
... Hi Andrea and Edwin, The list of S. Richter recordings from the Friends of S. Richter does not include one made in Milano in Dec. 1966. There always could...
Has any one been recording the Richter portrait? I managed to record the first program but the second one kept cutting out during the streaming loop. I...
To clear this up, there are 6 performances of the Liszt Sonata by Richter which have been commercially released. The one which floated around for years before...
I am recording all these broadcasts of NDR Kultur from digital satellite radio and have transfered the first two programs already on CD. If anyone is...
The New York performance of 18 May 1965 is still available (I think) on Palexa. The CD (CD-0537) also contains the Funerailles from a Budapest recital (11 Feb...
I don't know if it can be useful to somebody but I wish to summarize the
Liszt Sonata recordings in the following list: LISZT Sonata recordings ALDEBURGH...
Dear Giorgio: Thank you for your detailed information, however CD PHILIPS 454545-2 in your list appears twice and the Livorno recording list should be...
... Dear Giorgio and Ates, Thanks for your Liszt list. Ates Tanin has in addition: 2/6/66 - Florence - Live - (PT) c67 - Moscow - Live - excerpts - IVC...
I am still not sure if the Brilliant Classics version is the same as Russian Masters Vol.5 and the latter may be from Moscow 16/10/1965. Has anyone made a...