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Richter, the Enigma
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0639842302937
Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC
Label: Nvc Arts
Languages: English (Original Language), Stereo
Manufacturer: Nvc Arts
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Nvc Arts
Release Date: February 02, 1999
Studio: Nvc Arts
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
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Editorial Review:
This exemplary 154-minute documentary about the great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter includes some wonderful archive footage and a lot of worthwhile discussion of one of the more remarkable 20th-century concert careers. Richter was an extraordinary combination of poet, mystic, and superb technician, equally at home with the spiritually ruminative moments of Johann Sebastian Bach and the spectacular display pieces of Franz Liszt. He was also in an interesting place at an interesting time--able to interpret the works of Prokofiev and Shostakovich when they were freshly minted, and able to play alongside other great virtuosi like David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich (there is some wonderful footage here of the three of them performing the Beethoven Triple Concerto under Karajan). Richter was as fine a soloist with great orchestras as he was an accompanist (we see him with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Hugo Wolf's quirky song "Der Feierreiter"), but his true love was the recital. Much of his long career was taken up with an endless pilgrimage around the civic centers of Soviet Russia, spreading the word of great music. --Roz Kaveney
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Rating: - Richter the Enigma film
This film about the incomparable Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter is an experience for everyone who has been affected by this man's amazing talent. Richter was often called the best pianist in the world and not just by critics, but by many leading pianists of the day. This film contains treasures of archival footage of Richter in recitals, his own recollections of his long and fascinating life and the interviews given just before his death. Richter was notoriously camera and tape recorder shy, ... Read More
Rating: - this film does justice to one of the worlds greatest musicians.
Believe all the superlatives,this is one of the greatest films ever made about a musician...slightly sycophantic on the subject of Glenn Gould (he once said Gould's behaviour wasn't eccentric....Hmmmm),Bruno Monsaingeon is just about perfect in the way he has assembled together Richter and filmed him wistfully talking away in his later years.
The film transcends the category of a documentary about one of the greatest pianists of all time.Partly,this is because Richter's own interests were so ... Read More
Rating: - An In-depth and Inspiring Documentary
An in-depth and most worthwhile portrait of this great pianist.
In an interview when he was 80 years old, Richter told us how he started his career as a pianist. He said he had three teachers: his father, Neuhaus and Wagner. He also told us that he never practised any scale or excercise. Instead he started with Chopin's Nocturne and Etude...
His views on Heuhaus is quite different from Ashkenazy's. But it is quite interesting nevertjelss. He thought the unevenness ... Read More
Rating: - FANTASTIC. But where is the DVD??
Does anyone have the coordinates for "nvc arts"?
Rating: - Svjatoslav Richter, the other "Titan"
In a few words this masterpiece lets itself describe, with honour and merit to what Richter deserves, but at the same time overloaded with superlatives for this whole concept.
I have quite a VHS-collection (between 500 and 600) of musicians (all genres), but this one beats everything: this film is "OUT OF CATEGORY" !!
The content of this VHS is about 1 of the 2 TITANS ever of the piano: Emil Gilels, whom Richter studied with at Moscow under Neuhaus, is the second one.
Concerning ... Read More
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