Extractions: Sviatoslav Richter, 1915-1997 By John Bell Young In some parts of the world Americans are criticized for a lack of culture. But those who look down their noses at our not-so-new world betray their naiveté. Culture, after all, is a broad concept that embraces a shared language, values, a way of life and even a cuisine. Thus, to say Americans have no culture is as ludicrous as it is a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, there's truth in this disparaging assessment. Where the idea of culture includes an informed society that embraces its history, art and literature, the antagonists have called our bluff. Just take the case of the late Sviatoslav Richter, who died of a heart attack in Moscow on August 1, 1997. News of Richter's death spread with-in hours. Yet in this age of instant communication, many of us in the music world heard about it the old-fashioned way: by word of mouth. By the time the Russian Ministry of Culture made the grim announcement that a national treasure had passed on, the distance between Moscow and pianists everywhere had already been annihilated, not by modems or silicone chips, but through a kind of invisible, affective network, or intellectual osmosis. The immense vacuum left by his death radiated its own waves, without any help from the technocrats. With the event ignored by network television news and relegated to six-sentence obituaries in suburban newspapers, Richter, one of the most significant figures in the history of 20th century music, had already become, with-in hours of the announcement, yesterday's news. Generation X-ers had never heard of him, much less bought his records, mused media industry executives, so why bother saying anything? No money in that. Better to spend the time on the serial killer du jour or the premature demise of a drug-addicted, over-the-hill rock and roller. That seemed to work in 1995, when news of Michelangeli's death gave way to tabloid inspired accounts of Kurt Cobain's suicidal adventurism. Only CNN, God bless its corporate soul, paid any attention to the Italian pianist's extraordinary life, broadcasting a deftly edited obituary
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Extractions: Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter March 20 August 1 ) was a pianist of Ukrainian origin. He is numbered among the finest pianists of the 20th century. He exhibited all the best traits of the Russian school of playing: dynamism, lyrical expressiveness, and a wide range of tonal color. Combined with his typical thoughtfulness, subtlety, and attention to style, these qualities assured Richter of a distinguished international career. For many listeners, indeed, he was the paragon of balance among virtuosos, the pianist who exhibited the greatest equality among the elements across his musical palette. Although born in Zhitomir in Ukraine , he grew up in Odessa . Unusually, Richter was largely self-taught. Although his organistist father provided him with a basic education in music, Sviatoslav learned simply by playing the masterworks of the repertoire, including the piano scores of Wagner 's music dramas. He gave his first recital in 1934 but did not formally study piano until three years later, when he enrolled in the Moscow Conservatory, which waived the entrance exam for the young prodigy. He studied with Heinrich Neuhaus who also taught
Extractions: Beethovens cello sonatas are not as widely known as his symphonies, concerti, piano sonatas, or even his string quartets or violin sonatas. Yet they are among the finest pieces of music ever composed. The five cello sonatas span most of his composing career, with two (Op. 5) from his early period, when he was composing much in the style of Haydn, one (Op. 69) from his middle period, to which most of his most popular works belong, and two (Op. 102) that ushered in the intensity and introspection of his late period. Richter and Rostropovich give passionate, vigorous performances here. They have clearly thought every note and every phrase through, and, having done that, hold nothing back in the performance.
Extractions: Richters recording of Rachmaninovs second piano concerto with Wislocki and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra has to be the best ever put on disc! Yes, he does play it his own way; note his choices for tempo at the beginning and at the end of the first movement. But I cannot imagine that Rachmaninov would disapprove. Nothing is forced in this performance; Richter and the orchestra make transition after transition sound so natural. Never before have I heard a pianist and an orchestra in such perfect unity. This performance is worth every penny; the Tchaikovsky in my mind is just a bonus. It does not live up to the Rachmaninov, and does not qualify as a recommendable recording of the Tchaikovsky first piano concerto. But no matter, this CD is worth buying just for the Rachmaninov. It has dazzled me, and Im sure it will please you for years to come.
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Extractions: When we think of Soviet Art, we think of the propaganda posters and the figurative heroic paintings and sculpture that glorified the Soviet leaders. That kind of Social Realism dominated official art in Russia, starting in the 1930's. But artists found ways to pursue their own styles in secret. They organized private, apartment viewings of their work, and then finally, near the end of the Cold War, were able to bring their paintings out in the open. Pamela Renner talked to the painters Vitaly Komar and Grisha Bruskin about their transformation from subversives to international stars. Twenty years ago in Leningrad, the Soviets developed the Lomo camera as a way to provide Western-style consumer electronics to comrades throughout the Eastern bloc. The Lomo became the standard issue snapshot camera for a generation. A couple of decades later, Western photographers have discovered the versatility of the humble Lomo. Produced by John Stanik.
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