http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/ Sviatoslav Richter list Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:02:46 GMT TOM BRANNIGAN http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10324 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10324 I had the good fortune of obtaining VICC60071-74 from overseas just as it was made available for sale in Japan and it does have the Jewel Case artwork you Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:02:38 GMT TOM BRANNIGAN http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10323 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10323 I purchased the TNC "Richter in Kiev" 17CD collection just about the first week it was available. It had no box. It also didn't include an entire movement of Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:00:42 GMT polariust http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10322 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10322 Just to pick up an older thread for additional clarification: I took a look at the existing (though not wholly up-to-date) Richter discographies (the Geffen & Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:58:13 GMT polariust http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10321 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10321 Quite interesting. I have a CD reissue which is probably a compilation from this set, Pires playing Mozart sonatas in A minor (K.310) and C minor (K.457) along Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:57:50 GMT polariust http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10320 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10320 Are the any who own this set or some of the individually released issues belonging to it (of the 17-disc TNC "Richter in Kiev" release)? What are your thoughts Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:57:24 GMT polariust http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10319 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10319 You are right, Antti, in pointing out the difficulty of trying to wear the two hats, of a documentarist/recorder of facts and of an artist. The problem is that Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:25:47 GMT email2cal http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10318 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10318 Doremi has just released new volume in their Richter Archives series. The information below is from Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:27:22 GMT email2cal http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10317 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10317 Berkshire offers Parnassus' Sviatoslav Richter in the 1950s, Volume 5 for $15.98: Label Cat. #: PACD 96017/8 Format: CD Amount/set: 2 Schubert, Piano Sonata in Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:39:15 GMT email2cal http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10316 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10316 product code: BBCL 42652 BBC Legends SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata in C minor, D958 BARTÓK: Fifteen Hungarian Peasant Songs SZYMANOWSKI: Two pieces from `Masques', Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:02:25 GMT George http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10315 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10315 ... FWIW, I emailed the webmaster earlier this year and he told me that the site would be updated soon. George [ If readers would like an idea of what to Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:53:55 GMT andi_joh http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10314 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10314 ... A few years ago I asked the same question. Here is what Risto Vaisanen answered me: "there is an autograph facsimile of the complete score (just 13 Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:30 GMT reuchsel http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10313 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10313 ... Which, sadly, doesn't mean much. It was not updated in a long time, LOTs of more recent editions are missing - just think of the Ankh releases or Richter Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:49:18 GMT Luiz Guilherme Pozzi http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10312 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10312 Does someone have the score from Schmachtend? It was the little piece by Wagner that Richter used to play. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:12:08 GMT email2cal http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10311 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10311 Thanks, Yuri! These recordings are important because the disc carries a note, "First on CD." I quickly checked a few first items against the trovar.com Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:58:43 GMT Leendert http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10310 http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/sviatoslavrichter/message/10310 The recent biography of Prokofiev by Simon Morrison titled "The People's Artist" includes the following (page 388): "The March 7 memorial service at the House