Word: sviatoslav
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...then, maybe your Aunt Edna doesn't really like Christmas at all, and you'd better confine your choice to something extra cathedral. Like, perhaps, Sviatoslav Richter, three of whose recordings have recently been released by American firms. Columbia has hit upon the dubious practice of recording concert performances: Richter's Carnegie Hall recital of five Beethoven sonatas last year, and a performance in Sofia, Bulgaria of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Mr. Richter's playing is not enchanced by an impromptu counterpoint of mid-winter colds, thumping tape-recorders, passing BMT trains (in the Carnegie Hall record...
...remarkable series of concerts in Petrograd, Russia, in 1913, it will, by comparison, illuminate the defects and virtues of the men who stand with Rubinstein as the greatest living players of the piano. The list is not long; it includes only three more: Rudolf Serkin, Vladimir Horowitz and Sviatoslav Richter...
...lucky few who bought tickets weeks ago, the coming week will include what will probably be two of the most memorable events of the Boston concert season: two piano recitals by Sviatoslav Richter...
Brahms: Concerto No. 2 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; the Chicago Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor). In this first Richter recording made in the U.S., the great Russian pianist gives a performance as taut as a bent bow. At the end of the session, Richter turned to Conductor Leinsdorf and said: "Please explain to the orchestra that I could do no better." Nor could anyone...
...station. A slow procession wound through the house to view the body: students, workers, peasants, elderly men and women of Pasternak's own generation. There were even some writers who braved official displeasure: Novelist Konstantin Paustovsky, Children's Author Kornei Chukovsky and, through his wife, Ilya Ehrenburg. Sviatoslav Richter, Russia's finest pianist, played slow dirges and the Chopin melodies that Pasternak had loved...