It was in Carnegie Hall and Sviatoslav Richter was playing the piano. The floor rumbled and the walls shook. It happened during the tumultuous passage in double octaves that opens the fugato in ...

Sviatoslav Richter offers some intimate insights into the music that inspired and challenged him, his relationship with audiences and penchant for practising at the 11th hour I do not consider it ...

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Leningrad Philharmonic; Evgeni Mravinsky, conductor; Russian Disc). This is the work in which the phenomenal pianist made his American debut in ...

Soviet violinist David Oistrakh first came to the United States in 1955, with pianist Sviatoslav Richter following five years later. They began to work together in the late 1960s, giving recitals in ...

Richter was not just a talented performer and independent creative figure. He performed musical compositions that were banned in the Soviet Union, gave sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall and preferred ...

Monsaingeon's recent documentary about Richter won a large new audience for the late Russian pianist, who is frequently cited as one of the great musicians of the century, and here the filmmaker ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From the first bars of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition there are scattered wrong notes, but by two minutes in – the Gnomus ...

(***) Ludwig van Beethoven, Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, performed by pianist Sviatoslav Richter (Philips): All too many of the people who know Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations are ...