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Post by air on Jun 27, 2010 21:05:07 GMT -5
A thread to celebrate the life, legacy, and musical mind of Slava.
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Post by argerichfan on Jul 1, 2010 23:13:29 GMT -5
Husband and wife after listening to Richter's recording of the Schubert D960:
Darrell, did you forget to shave today?
Darrell: if you hadn't noticed my dear, I was clean shaven when the performance began.
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Post by air on Jul 2, 2010 1:06:42 GMT -5
Husband and wife after listening to Richter's recording of the Schubert D960: Darrell, did you forget to shave today? Darrell: if you hadn't noticed my dear, I was clean shaven when the performance began. You have to listen to Yudina then. Two times slower. (And I bet it's where Richter got his tempos too!) Honestly, when I spin a recording like the D960 from Prague I don't even think about the time. It's just that good.  I feel exactly the same way that Glenn Gould feels about Richter's Schubert.  |
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Post by thepianist on Jul 2, 2010 12:09:19 GMT -5
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Post by air on Jul 2, 2010 12:58:32 GMT -5
I actually don't know - it surely seems like it! The one Richter recording I have of the work is significantly slower, though it was towards the end of his life (1988, Praga). |
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Post by argerichfan on Jul 2, 2010 23:11:49 GMT -5
Honestly, when I spin a recording like the D960 from Prague I don't even think about the time. It's just that good. I feel exactly the same way that Glenn Gould feels about Richter's Schubert. I have not heard the Prague recording, just the studio recording... and it's been a few years; I don't own it. Of course Richter always plays divinely, but the first movement is, IMO, just too slow, especially as I am a firm believer in taking exposition repeat. No repeat, no entrance into my CD library. I simply cannot imagine that Schubert ever intended Molto Moderato to be interpreted as a Molto Glaciado. But of course when you approach a pianist of Richter's genius, you either accept what he does or you don't. As with Argerich, you don't criticize musicianship on that exalted level, you just humbly pull away if you don't fancy their interpretation. This is what I do with Glenn Gould in almost any non-Bach recording. And there are no non-Bach recordings of Gould in my library. Sorry Glenn, you're a delightfully self-conscious 'nut' and touched by genius, but I'll happily give your Mozart and Beethoven a miss, thank-you. No hard feelings, Glenn. I wish I had an atom of your talent. |
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Post by air on Jul 2, 2010 23:56:12 GMT -5
If you mean the studio recording on the Regis label, it doesn't get much better than that. But the Praga recording is still my favorite. It's the only recording that can get me so deeply in the Late Schubert "zone" that for a few minutes, I actually forget the reality.
To each his own. Yudina, Gould, Richter, Argerich, etc. are all wonderful testaments to what individual artists should look like (or rather, sound like), whether one likes their recordings or not.
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Post by argerichfan on Jul 16, 2010 15:24:29 GMT -5
The August 2010 edition of Gramophone has a review of Karl Aage Rasmussen's new bio of Sviatoslav Richter.
Interesting review with a particularly revealing passage: 'I can't say I came away admiring S R as a musician or man more or less than I did before.'
Well, so much for the good dirt! I'm sure it will be worth a read, though I suspect it will not be the last bio of the pianist. Jeremy Nicholas' review (and I respect his writing) gives an overall impression of tepidity.
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Post by argerichfan on Jul 17, 2010 20:17:54 GMT -5
Where is air? I would have expected a reply to the above by now. Has air not read the bio yet?
You people... we need to keep this board alive, and thanks (btw) to whomever gave me a '-1'. Cheers for that.
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Post by thepianist on Jul 17, 2010 20:22:59 GMT -5
Where is air? I would have expected a reply to the above by now. Has air not read the bio yet? You people... we need to keep this board alive, and thanks (btw) to whomever gave me a '-1'. Cheers for that. Probably on vacation or something. BTW, you can opt out of karma in your profile if you don't want it.  |
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Post by argerichfan on Jul 17, 2010 20:43:40 GMT -5
Probably on vacation or something. BTW, you can opt out of karma in your profile if you don't want it. Figured air must be on holiday, or more properly 'vacation'. Trying to get the American usage correct. And it will be easier to spell 'favourite' as favorite. Have things cooled down? Seattle is blissfully mild this evening and I am very happy. |
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Post by thepianist on Jul 17, 2010 20:46:42 GMT -5
Haha, that will be hard. I don't envy you there..... ;D Heck no, it's like a sauna where I am.  [edit] send me a PM if you want to talk...let's not derail this thread any further. |
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Post by air on Jul 31, 2010 18:19:31 GMT -5
The August 2010 edition of Gramophone has a review of Karl Aage Rasmussen's new bio of Sviatoslav Richter. Interesting review with a particularly revealing passage: 'I can't say I came away admiring S R as a musician or man more or less than I did before.' Well, so much for the good dirt! I'm sure it will be worth a read, though I suspect it will not be the last bio of the pianist. Jeremy Nicholas' review (and I respect his writing) gives an overall impression of tepidity. Well, I haven't read Rasmussen's book yet, mostly because of time but also because I know that I simply don't care too much about the details of Richter's personal life, both the "marriage" to Nina Dorliak and the widely accepted "other side". I suppose for someone who likes anecdotes that this may be a good read, but as for me, I'd rather spend my money on recordings than on celebrity gossip (however interesting it may be). |
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[edit] send me a PM if you want to talk...let's not derail this thread any further.