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| Classical Music for Aficionados Thanks Newbee, will try to find that recording.Just read a wonderful piece about Bach! "I’ve talked to people who feel they know Bach very well, but they aren’t aware of the time he was imprisoned for a month. They never learned about Bach pulli... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Sv RichterHere is the Richter documentary "The Enigma" in 2 parts.Highly recommended.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfJVpjI3wJMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVhxqEN9j7k | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados newbeeme tooWatched part 2 of "The Enigma" last night. Awesome.Interviews with Gould, among many others.And lots of footage of R playing. R describes why he prefers Haydn to Mozart.Never realized how much Richter looked like Kesey at age 40-50! | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Another favorite Ashkenazy recording:Rachmaninov Moments Musicaux, which includes Morceaux de Fantasie | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Newbeethanks, i have that, love it, peaceful, my kind of musichttps://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Piano-Works-Dmitri/dp/B0000SWNIO | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados My favorite Ashkenazy recording is the Shostakovich Preludes. Somehow his recordings are all excellent technically, which cannot be said for many other great pianists. I don't know how that happened. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados I never heard Rachmaninov, I was 3 years old when he died.I had a chance to hear Richter, I was in college just a hundred miles from Carnegie Hall. My aunt was a perennial student at Julliard, she said tickets were impossible.The only first rank ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados In RICHTER: THE ENIGMA, Sviatoslav Richter (1915-1997), one of the greatest pianists of all time, breaks his life-long silence and allows himself to be interviewed for this autobiographical film. He evokes his wild childhood, his encounters with ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Richter, the EnigmaRichter at age 80 reminiscing about his life, interspersed with period footage.He never played scales.He was really powerful/dynamic at the keyboard!Too much to describe, highly recommended. | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados “I was only six when I first heard Rachmaninoff perform, and I attended hisconcerts regularly for the next twenty-two years until his death in 1943. Iheard him play not only his most of his own compositions, but the entirestandard repertoire that ... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Speaking of Richter and Ravel , , ,Now listening to Richter/Kagan/Gutman Franck and Ravel TriosIt does not get any better | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Yes Jim, I also like Piemontesi's Debussy Preludes.Also listening to Imogen Cooper's Iberia and Francia cd, just out this year. I am stunned by the beauty of Mompou's Cançons i danses (Excerpts) : No. 1 in F-Sharp Major Thanks for the tip on Li... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Now listening to Francsco Piemontesi, Liszt 2 Legends, also Annees.Very niceHas anyone heard him? | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados agree with you Jimand i will take it a step further and say i resent all the distractions that are so common, including the histrionics of the performers themselvesSv. Richter once said he preferred simple lighting, eg, a couple candles,because he... | |
| Classical Music for Aficionados Rachmaninov, Ireland, Yuja Wang, HofmanInteresting article praising Rachmaninov, describing his snail paced practice. Also praises Yuja Wang's performance."Rachmaninov wrote the Third Concerto for Hofmann and dedicated it to him. The composer pl... |