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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: poor Richter posted by Diogenes on August 9, 2014 at 06:53:19:
I agree with your assessment of Richter as "pianist of the [twentieth] century". Did you mean Brahms and Beethoven, rather than Brahms and Bach? I think it's funny that Richter himself perversely made disparaging comments about his RCA recordings and even preferred his later, lugubrious Brahms 2 (with Maazel) to the wonderfully lithe RCA one (with Leinsdorf/CSO). You mention that Richter modifies his touch to sound like a fortepiano in the performances with Ancerl - Could that be just an artifact of the way he was recorded? (I haven't heard those particular performances, but the RCA No. 1 with Munch/BSO is wonderful, especially in its XRCD incarnation, despite the slight audibility of a hum for part of that recording. For that matter, the DG No. 3 with Sanderling/VSO is not badly engineered for its time either - this is all just IMHO.)
Also IMHO, the quality of the engineering is, in general, one of the most important elements in our impression of any recorded performance. As you say (and for reasons explained by John below), this put Richter at a disadvantage relative to other pianists of his time. Even so, as I think you're also suggesting, his non-RCA recordings, sourced from EMI, Melodiya, DG, BBC Legends, Supraphon, Praga and others, are usually good enough to allow for his often extraordinary, revelatory performances to emerge.
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Follow Ups
- RE: poor Richter - Chris from Lafayette 09:42:35 08/09/14 (2)
- RE: poor Richter - ahendler 15:05:57 08/09/14 (1)
- Alan - you are right [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 00:34:23 08/10/14 (0)
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