Music and Musicians, An Outstanding Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter

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On this episode of Music and Musicians, Radio Moscow correspondent Olga Suvorova profiles with life and work of Pianist Sviatoslav Richter. The program, titled "About Richter and Without Richter," includes recorded performances of Sviatoslav and interviews with his friends and colleagues, as he himself does not give interviews. Radio Moscow correspondents also read statements that Richter has written about his life, for example meeting the painter Pablo Picasso.

The program selects recorded performances of Richter, such as Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in Fugue from The Well-Tempered Clavier and a piece by Frédéric Chopin performed at the Pushkin Museum. Later in the program, we hear the first movement of Sergey Prokofiev's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, which is followed by two performances with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau of Hugo Wolf's "The Firey Horseman" and "At Midnight." The recording concludes with Richter performing Sergei Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra.

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