Happy 110th birthday, Sviatoslav Richter!

shri8prak
Mar 20
1 min read

The pianist whose style I most identify with- humble, heartfelt, raw. His seminal 62 recording of Ballade 4 has probably been on this blog enough, so here's a beautiful 1948 recording of Schummann's Fantasy.

And his heartbreaking Ravel Pavane:

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