Dear Jkhr1946 (Sorry, I didn't get your name on your email!) Sorry to take so long to reply to your request for personal anecdotes in re Richter but I'm a high...
RJMACE@...
Jul 2, 2008 12:43 am
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Rich, Thanks very much for sharing those memories, and impressions. They comport very well with my experiences of Richter's artistry and poetry. I only know...
Dear you all, The text may be bit long, but worth of reading, from top to toe. Best Antti Sairanen Renowned artist manager, Jacques Leiser will be exhibiting...
Apologies to all if this is too commercial a message. Those seeking copies of "Richter in Leipzig," the long-deleted 1963 recital including the last three...
Leslie Gerber Personal
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Jul 15, 2008 8:18 pm
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Dear Antti, Thanks for the interesting update on Leiser. I know of a very fine pianist who could certainly use a career boost. She played magnificently at the...
Leslie Gerber Personal
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Jul 15, 2008 8:18 pm
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Dear Leslie, I've had rather much correspondence with Jacques, met couple times and will meet again in August, to see the Richter and more photos of him and...
I'm interested in the reissue of "Richter in Leipzig" (I have the version with the "flutter"). How can I order this and any other Richter CDs? Do you have a...
John, I bought recently <Richter in Leipzig 1963> from the label Parnassus Records, www.parnassusrecords.com/richtercatalog.htm You can order also to the...
Dear Members of the Richter Forum Apologies if this post is tedious, or the information has appeared in previous entries. I was always intrigued by the comment...
Harold C. Schonberg was not very enthusiastic about Richter in his book on pianists either I remember.... and on Chopin : you are not the only one ;-) ...
Dear Members, I was fascinated to read your comments about Richter in London in 1961. I happened to be there and attended his debut performances and recall the...
Ever since Mr. Sviatoslav Richter's first gramophone record to appear in this country - it was of music by Schumann - aroused such enthusiasm nearly four years...
One of the most gratifying aspects of great art is the fact that the memory of a transcendent perfomance lasts a lifetime, whereas there is no such thing as...
It was the Finnish musicologist, -historian Erik Tawastjerna who called Richter as a universal genius. In his younger years he could perhaps have been seen as...
I had contacted Parnassus directly about the Richter in Leipzig cd and was told it will be distributed by Qualiton but that the cd was not yet listed on the...
... as "monocrystal" ... he is ... mind ... Antti, Thanks for your observation. You have, I'm sure, listened much more widely to Richter's repertoire than I....
Jack, There should have been written "a all observing monocrystal and a all reflecting mirror" but a universal genius is no doubt the best "judgment". Some...
How about Richter's Prokofiev and Shostokovich? Sad to say, he never tackled the Rwezski, "People United..." Variations, but one can imagine his use of tone...
RJMACE@...
Jul 27, 2008 4:12 am
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Rich, This reminds me of the plan Prof. Tawastjerna - not to mix with his son Erik T. Tawastjerna - to learn Russian for writing a Shostakovich biography. He...
Hello everyone!!! Now that most of Richter's old recordings become available to all listeners ; it is important to specify to new-listeners that Richter is the...
... The Richter-approved may not be really Richter-approved. If I remember correctly Richter was quite upset about the Philips set (now Decca) being labeled...
... set ... That is correct and I did not buy that set because I don't think these recordings show him at his best. His US 1960 recordings were released...
If my memory serves there were five or six recordings which our dear pianist accepted as sufficiently acceptable... but this is a judgment of an extremely self...
When, pray tell, is the Shafran book due to hit the English language market? Rich...
RJMACE@...
Jul 31, 2008 12:27 pm
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... Philips ... superb , ... make ... together ... personalities ... Amongst the ones he did not appreciate was the Beethoven triple concerto with Karajan.I...
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