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INSTRUMENTAL: Pieces often played by students reveal unsuspected subtleties as Glenn Gould makes eloquent the several voices in Bach's Two-and Three-Part Inventions (Columbia) and Artur Rubinstein turns Chopin's Waltzes into lilting, sparkling poems (RCA Victor). Sviatoslav Richter makes Schubert's "Wanderer" Fantasia sing (Angel), and John Browning premieres what may become one of tomorrow's classics, though not too different from yesterday's: Samuel Barber's 1962 Piano Concerto (Columbia...
LEON FLEISHER (Epic) and SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (Angel) have both recorded Schubert's Wanderer Fantasia and Sonata in A Major, and the results are surprisingly equal. The music is right down Richter's alley, but Fleisher approaches it with ease and style and seems almost the peer of Russia's master pianist...
...Bruno Hoffman-the one and only glass harmonica virtuoso. Along with lonely exponents of the virginal, the psaltery and the oboe d'amore, there are 166 violinists, 88 organists, 73 harpsichordists, 64 flautists and 56 cellists listed, each count a statistical gain over 1960. Walter Gieseking and Sviatoslav Richter are the leading pianists, with 46 recordings each; Richter had only 19 three years ago, and, having made the biggest jump of any instrumentalist, he is now being denounced as a musical prostitute for turning out such a long and uneven list of recordings. David Oistrakh is beginning to slip...
...When Sviatoslav Richter first stepped out from behind the Iron Curtain two years ago, the chorus of praise that greeted him carried one hesitant note. Richter is a great pianist, the critics decreed, "in the Russian style." Last week, after Richter gave three recitals in Paris and appeared in a new German recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, the European press revised its first estimates. Said the Paris Art: "Sviatoslav Richter is the greatest pianist in the world...
Persuasive Speech. The festival was organized as a salute to Soviet music in general: along with Shostakovich came Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Violinist David Oistrakh, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Singer Galina Vishnevskaya. (After Pianist Sviatoslav Richter failed to show up, forcing the refund of $11,200 worth of tickets, the Russians tersely announced that their great virtuoso was resting at home with a mild stroke.) But for all the heavy concentration of glamorous box office names, the center of attention remained Shostakovich, who often could be seen sprinting from one concert hall to another to keep up with...