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In the Thread: How Mussorgsky should sound!
Post Subject: I’m not a big Sviatoslav Richter’s fan, still....Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/10/2007
... I had an interesting conversation a few weeks ago. The person I spoke with is a piano teacher here in Boston and she many years back, livening in Leningrad and working as pianist, was very common at Richter’s performances. So, according to her the Richter’s output, as we know it, and as it available on recordings is a very pitiable representation of what Richter was. She said that during numerous Richter’s concerts when the audiences walked away and Richter was found himself in semi-empty concert halls with literally a couple dozen audiences left he reportedly demonstrated some class of paying that is not typically associated with “typical Richter’s play”. Though I have to admit that what Richter did in Sofia was also not the “typical Richter’s play”….
BTW, It is would interesting to note that Richter himself did not like nether Sofia nor Moscow studio performance/recordings....
Regard the Schubert and Liszt, yes they are phenomenal but I did not think Richter ever ealse played Schubert or Liszt this way. It is like another Russian - Lazar Berman who did once stunning Liszt but never anything equally interesting before or after.Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site