Word: richter
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...greatest pianists of the century, a performer whose interpretive acuity and huge repertoire awed other musicians, Sviatoslav Richter, the subject of this engrossing video documentary, was also a fiercely private man indifferent to commercial success. Averse to concertizing in big cities, he instead drove the expanses of Russia, showering his genius on towns and villages. Bruno Monsaingeon, who has made several films about musicians, got the wary pianist to open up. Blending Richter's observations with marvelous archival footage spanning much of his life, Monsaingeon's documentary so generously displays the pianist's gifts and so vividly limns...
...pleasure of Great Pianists is in the listening, however, not in the debate over inclusiveness. All the significant performances of the century are here: Artur Schnabel's Beethoven, Wilhelm Kempff's Schumann, Sviatoslav Richter's Prokofiev, Walter Gieseking's Debussy. But Deacon was too knowledgeable, and too wily, to select only the gems that every piano lover may already have. More than a quarter of the music in the collection was previously unavailable on CD, and some pieces, such as Clifford Curzon playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27, have never before been released commercially in any format. Deacon scoured...
MacInnis scored the natural hat trick during a 12-minute span in the first period. With St. Louis on a power play, MacInnis scored at 4:56 on a slap shot from the right point that beat Rangers goaltender Mike Richter cleanly. At 11:49 MacInnis scored on a shot from outside the blue line that bounced off Richter's right pad and trickled into the net. Then at 16:48 MacInnis beat Richter with a slap shot from the left point after Pierre Turgeon won a faceoff in the Rangers...
...Louis padded the lead to 4-0 with a goal from Geoff Courtnall at 9:05 of the second period off Dan Cloutier, who replaced Richter at the start of the second period...
...After India detonated five nuclear devices two weeks ago, the question was not whether Pakistan would respond but when. At 3:30 p.m. last Thursday, the earth at the Chagai test site shook, then collapsed. Needles on seismic recorders from Australia to Sweden bounced forward to 4.9 on the Richter scale, indicating that an underground explosion with the power of 2 to 12 kilotons had discharged. "We have settled the score with India," Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif grimly announced, claiming that five nuclear bombs had been exploded. U.S. intelligence officials suspected there had been fewer. But on Saturday Pakistan...