Word: richter
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...there a more stimulating, captivating and exasperating pianist than Sviatoslav Richter? When the reclusive Ukrainian-born musician -- the last of the Soviet-era superstars -- is good, he's very, very good. And when he's bad, he's horrid. But in an age of cookie-cutter pianists, each playing the same program in the same way, Richter, at least, is gloriously himself...
...Consider Richter: The Authorised Recordings, a 21-CD collection of previously unreleased performances now available from Philips Classics in limited numbers and selling for about $350. The tapes, which cover a span of a quarter-century and include both live and studio recordings, were discovered unmarked and unedited in the company's vaults in Holland in 1993 and were released earlier this fall with the imprimatur of the temperamental pianist. The music represents the heart of his repertoire: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Schubert, Haydn, Weber, Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. There is probably no better compendium of Richter...
...graduating from Harvard Business School in 1981, she joined the Los Angeles Times, for which she covered everything from the oil industry to the Iran-contra affair to Bob Kerrey's 1992 campaign for the presidency. She interrupted her campaign stint to have Nicholas, now 2, with husband Paul Richter, a White House correspondent for the Los Angeles Times...
...know, his style could not be any more different than mine--he stands back in the net, he's a huge guy, yet I love him. It was so good to see him do well in the Stanley Cup playoffs last year against Mike Richter, who is really more of a 'model' of my style," the term being used loosely...
...very least, Sunday's concert will offer a glimpse of the brilliance that put the U.S. on the pianists' map for the first time. Names such as Rubinstein, Sviatoslav Richter and Jan Paderewski had dominated the piano world since the turn of the century, Many such as Rubinstein and Rudolf Serkin, eventually made their homes in this country, but Cliburn was the first native-born American to become a definitive performer of major works. He could have been remembered for his legacy or virtuosity alone, but this tour represents his valuable commitment to bringing classical music into American eyes...