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Tchaikovsky piano concerto no.1 Sviatoslav Richter -condensed excerpt-best bits

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Uploaded by on Apr 29, 2009

I think late 1950's recording with Moscow State Orchestra conductor Kiril Kondrashin..Richter never fails to mesmerise as evident in this performance..a moving experience..a veritable virtuoso...
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Heinrich Neuhaus, a famous pianist and piano teacher, at the Moscow Conservatory, during Richter's audition for Neuhaus, Neuhaus apparently whispered to a fellow student "this man's a genius". Although Neuhaus taught many great pianists, including Emil Gilels and Radu Lupu, it is said that he considered Richter to be "the genius pupil, for whom he had been waiting all his life", while acknowledging that he taught Richter almost "nothing".
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Arthur Rubinstein, upon hearing Richter for the first time:
"It really wasnt anything out of the ordinary. Then at some point I noticed my eyes growing moist: tears began rolling down my cheeks..."

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"...the only one of his kind."

That was how one critic was compelled to describe Sviatoslav Richter when he first heard him play, which was also how Clara Schumann spoke of the venerable Franz Lizst.
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FanFaire's tribute to Sviatoslav Richter, "one of the great pianists of all time"

"He was a Soviet pianist, widely recognised as one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. ..."

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  • a lot of other great pianists! but for sure he belonges to the top of all times.

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