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Extractions: Residenz-Verlag Salzburg 1992 Our first professional contact with Sviatoslav Richter occurred as the result of the discovery of some tapes with Mozart Violin Sonatas which we were able to acquire from the Moscow archives of Kondrashin. After careful listening Richter spontaneously gave his consent for their production ( LCL 123 ). Over the years his selfless and total support of the legacy of Oleg Kagan on Live Classics was one of our most valuable assets. And we understood very well that this involvement on his part was on behalf of Oleg whom he held dear as a human being no less than a musician. In talking to Richter some time after the release of these CDs and two others featuring Elisso Wirssaladze ( ). He generally did not oppose recordings being made during concerts, but he made no concessions such as extra studio sessions, rehearsals for the set-up of microphones or additional recording sessions after a concert for corrections. All this may have contributed to the rumour that he sometimes took a critical position in regard to major labels. We personally believe that quite a few labels succeeded with great effect in their endeavour to present the art of Sviatoslav Richter. Richter definitely liked his recordings to be released as long as he was confident about their musical quality. With respect to the choice of music, several times he explicitly expressed his wish that the recording of a certain piece should be released even though there existed another recording of the same composition in his performance, simply because it would be different and therefore interesting.
Extractions: Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter March 20 August 1 ) was a Russian pianist of German extraction. Although born in Zhitomir in Ukraine , Richter grew up in Odessa . Unusually, Richter was largely self-taught. Although his organist father provided him with a basic education in music, Sviatoslav learned simply by playing the masterworks of the repertoire, including the piano scores of Wagner 's music dramas. He gave his first recital in 1934 but did not formally study piano until three years later, when he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory , which waived the entrance exam for the young prodigy. He studied with Heinrich Neuhaus who also taught Emil Gilels , and who claimed Richter to be "the genius pupil, for whom he had been waiting all his life". In 1940, while still a student, he gave the world premiere of the Sonata No. 6 by Sergei Prokofiev , a composer with whose works he was ever after associated. He also became known for skipping compulsory lessons at the conservatory and being expelled twice in his first year. The West first became aware of Richter through recordings made in the 1950s. He was not allowed to tour the
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Extractions: Updated: German MOSCOW Sviatoslav Richter, who rose to fame in the Soviet Union in the 1940s to become one of the 20th century's leading pianists, died of a heart attack Friday in a Moscow hospital, the Russian Culture Ministry said. He was 82. Renowned for improvisatory genius, Richter could sell out any concert hall in the world, even at age 80. Although the music world had many pianists who were technically brilliant, Richter was one of the few who excelled both technically and artistically. His was a wide repertoire that included practically all styles, from Bach to Debussy, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. When Richter played a series of concerts at the Los Angeles County Music Center and the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in 1965, Times music editor Albert Goldberg said audiences were treated to "true Richter magic." "Pianistically the quality was unvarying," the critic wrote. "He is one of the masters of the instrument."
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Extractions: Email Map Hello! Advertise Swap Link Network Affiliates Classifieds ... Piano Richter DISCOGRAPHY TOP LINKS Want to add your LINK here? Contact us at evaluate@micro2media.com Back to Top of Page BIBLIOGRAPHY Sviatoslav Richter, widely regarded as one of the finest Russian pianists of the twentieth century, was born in Zhitomir, in the Ukraine, on March 20, 1915. His father, Theophile, was an organist and gave the young Sviatoslav his early musical training. Richters mother, Anna, was a talented artist who loved music and was related to the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. The young Richter was essentially self-taught and developed his exceptional technique by playing whatever music he liked. By the age of eight he was playing opera scores, including the music of Richard Wagner. He had the ability to memorize any music at sight. Richter grew up in Odessa, where his father taught at the Conservatory. Also growing up in Odessa at the same time were Emil Gilels and David Oistrakh, who would later become Richters chamber-music partner. During these years he was a repetiteur, or rehearsal pianist, in Odessa. His debut as a soloist came on February 19, 1934, at the Odessa House of Engineers. The program included the Chopin Ballade no. 4, Polonaise-fantaisie, and E Major Scherzo, as well as a selection of Nocturnes, Etudes, and Preludes, all difficult pieces. The recital was a great success and Richters career as virtuoso was under way.
Sviatoslav Richter - A Musical Legend On Classica The pianist sviatoslav richter is the first artist in a series of broadcasts The Ukrainian pianist sviatoslav richter (1915 1997) was an extremely http://www.unitel.de/classica/110899.htm
Extractions: Sviatoslav Richter at the piano Airing on Classica (Germany) on November 26, 1999 The pianist Sviatoslav Richter is the first artist in a series of broadcasts entitled "Musical Legends", in which Classica commemorates the great personalities of the musical world. The series will continue into the year 2000. The Ukrainian pianist Sviatoslav Richter (1915 - 1997) was an extremely camera-shy artist. Only a few films document his enormous talent and the fascination of his piano playing. His wife, however, was conscious of the importance of concert recordings for posterity and had the Schubert recital in Aldeburgh recorded with hidden cameras. Later, in the train, as the Richters had already left England, she confessed everything to her husband. Richter accepted her decision and admitted that he had not even noticed the cameras. - Arthur Intelmann for Classica
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Extractions: trovar.com Alfred Schnittke on Richter For people of my generation Svyatoslav Richter looms as a lofty peak where live music merges with its history. No matter how often you tell yourself that he is our contemporary, that you can see and hear him - you fail to realize it, because for decades he has been occupying a place of honour along such men as Chopin, Paganini, Liszt, Rachmaninov and Chaliapin, constituting a living link between the present time and eternity. For nearly half a century this man - outwardly self-contained and seemingly inaccessible - has been the centre of Moscow's musical life as performer, sponsor of festivals, the first to notice and assist talented young musicians and artists, the connoisseur of literature, the theatre and the cinema, the collector of paintings, the familiar figure at art exhibitions and himself a painter and a stage director. When he conceives the idea of holding a cycle of concerts on a particular subject, an art festival or an informal recital, his fiery temperament surmounts all and every obstacle in his way. His self-criticism is proverbial: after a wonderful appearance arousing the enthusiastic acclaim of public and press, and inspiring scholarly investigations, he would torture himself for a minute slip which he alone has noticed. There is nothing strange in this attitude, nor does it mean a desire to show off - Richter approaches musical performance with a standard all his own, for he alone knows the original concept and he alone can therefore estimate the degree to which it has been realized. We do not know what perfection haunts his inner ear and can consequently form no conception of what might be the ideal performance as he sees it. We can but feel grateful for the part of his idea that he has succeeded in carrying over, since it exceeds by far anything that we are able to imagine.
Extractions: trovar.com Sviatoslav Richter - an introduction to his life and work Sviatoslav Richter, widely regarded as one of the finest Russian pianists of the twentieth century, was born in Zhitomir, in the Ukraine, on March 20, 1915. His father, Theophile, was an organist and gave the young Sviatoslav his early musical training. Richters mother, Anna, was a talented artist who loved music and was related to the Swedish soprano Jenny Lind. The young Richter was essentially self-taught and developed his exceptional technique by playing whatever music he liked. By the age of eight he was playing opera scores, including the music of Richard Wagner. He had the ability to memorize any music at sight. Richter grew up in Odessa, where his father taught at the Conservatory. Also growing up in Odessa at the same time were Emil Gilels and David Oistrakh, who would later become Richters chamber-music partner. During these years he was a repetiteur, or rehearsal pianist, in Odessa. His debut as a soloist came on February 19, 1934, at the Odessa House of Engineers. The program included the Chopin Ballade no. 4, Polonaise-fantaisie, and E Major Scherzo, as well as a selection of Nocturnes, Etudes, and Preludes, all difficult pieces. The recital was a great success and Richters career as virtuoso was under way. In 1937 Richter left Odessa for Moscow to study with the great pianist and pedagogue Heinrich Neuhaus. Richter did not take the entrance exam at the Conservatory. He simply asked Neuhaus to teach him. Neuhaus listened to his playing and said, "Here is the pupil for whom I have waited all my life. In my opinion, he is a genius." Neuhaus declared that he had nothing to teach Richter but accepted him as a pupil anyway. On November 26, 1940, while still a student at Moscow Conservatory, Richter made his Moscow debut. Here he gave the first public performance of the Prokofiev Sonata No. 6 and made a highly favorable impression on both the audience and the composer. When Prokofiev completed his Seventh Sonata in 1942, he gave it to Richter for the premiere. Richter learned the piece in only four days, and performed it the following January. Richter also gave the first performances of Prokofievs Eighth and Ninth Sonatas, the last of which was dedicated to Richter.
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Extractions: Main Today would have been the 90th birthday of the great Soviet pianist, Sviatoslav Richter. I say "great," but I should say "greatest." For not even Emil Gilels, pearly scales and all, truly rivalled him. In Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy, he can never be surpassed. In Schubert and Schumann, he can never even be equalled. His interpretation of Schubert's "little" A major Sonata Op. 120 (D 664) is the sort of thing that can only be done once - just listen to the central Andante (available in various recordings). Before Richter, I do not think that anybody even began to grasp the full greatness of this music. Best of all are his interpretations of his contemporaries and countrymen, S. Prokofiev and D. D. Shostakovich. Conservatives, philosophers, conservative philosophers, and all others with a feel for music should take special note of Richter's scattered recordings of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues Op. 87 - music composed in the shadow of Stalin, and under the watchful eye of the bastard and butcher Andrei Zhdanov. Not even the composer's own recordings captured, for example, the dreadful stillness, desolation and paranoia of the great C minor Prelude, Op. 87 no. 20, the way Richter did. But Shostakovich is a big topic, for another day.
Extractions: Translated by Stewart Spencer Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter was a dazzling performer but an intensely private man. Though world famous and revered by classical music lovers everywhere, he guarded himself and his thoughts as carefully as his talent. French author and filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon tried vainly for years to interview the enigmatic pianist. Richter eventually yielded, granting Monsaingeon hours of taped conversation, unlimited access to his diaries and notebooks, and, ultimately, his friendship. This book, originally published in France in 1998, is the product of that friendship. Richter reveals himself as a man and an artist. Unsentimentally and with his characteristic dry humor and intelligence, the musician describes his poignant childhood and spectacular career, including his tumultuous early days at the Moscow Conservatory and his triumphant 1960 tour of the United States. His laconic recounting of playing in the orchestra at Stalin's surreal, interminable state funeral is riveting. Most important for music lovers, Richter discusses his influences and views on musical interpretation. He describes his encounters with other great Russian performers and composers, including Prokoviev, Shostakovich, Oistrakh, and Gilels. Candid sections from his personal journals offer his sober and unguarded impressions of dozens of performances and recordingsboth his own and those of other musicians.
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Extractions: Sviatoslav Richter, Notebooks and Conversations is partially based on Richter's interviews with Bruno Monsaingeon, a film-maker, for the 1998 documentary, Richter, the Enigma (Warner Music Vision 23029-3). Richter avoided publicity and interviews throughout his career, but Monsaingeon managed to convince him at the end of his life to participate in the film. Perhaps Richter's approval of two earlier films by Monsaingeon about two of his favorite colleagues, David Oistrakh and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the latter being, for Richter, "the greatest of twentieth-century singers" (p. 254), convinced him of Monsaingeon's integrity. The first half of Notebooks and Conversations consists of an "Introduction" by Monsaingeon and "Richter in His Own Words," a longer section that contains transcripts of interviews with the questions excised to create a first-person narrative. Like the film, it presents a capsule autobiography. The second half, "Notebooks, On Music" presents excerpts from Richter's journals containing impressions of recordings that he listened to and performances he attended. There is a valuable appendix, "A Don Juan of Music, or Richter in Figures," that documents the repertory that Richter performed in around thirty-six hundred concerts given in at least a thousand different places. (With eighty concert programs ready to play at any time, Richter's powers of...
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Extractions: Ukrainian pianist of German descent. He became accompanist to the Odessa Opera at age 15 and began conducting there at 18. In 1949, two years after he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, he won the Stalin Prize. He toured Europe, China, Japan, and the U.S., becoming legendary for the powerful technique and fiery energy in his solo performances. Highly regarded as an accompanist and chamber player as well, he made celebrated trio recordings with Mstislav Rostropovich and David Oistrakh var mm = [["Jan.","January"],["Feb.","February"],["Mar.","March"],["Apr.","April"],["May","May"],["June","June"],["July","July"],["Aug.","August"],["Sept.","September"],["Oct.","October"],["Nov.","November"],["Dec.","December"]]; To cite this page: MLA style: "Richter, Sviatoslav." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/article-9376899
