Sviatoslav Richter on picking small venues for performance (via yochanah)
master pianist Sviatoslav Richter (via facesofnatalia)
Sviatoslav Richter recollecting his American tour (from the documentary “Sviatoslav Richter: L’Insoumis”, by Bruno Monsaingeon). (via tierradentro)
k563:
Twenty eight. That’s the number of recordings I have of Mahler’s 9th Symphony, all now safely stored in digital format: from Bruno Walter’s 1938 pre-Anschluss concert with the Vienna Philharmonic, through the angst-ridden Bernstein-influenced 1960s to the 1981 version by Karajan (surely his…
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At the 4th competition in 1966.
From left to right: Gregor Piatigorsky, Piatigorsky’s brother, Gaspar Cassado, Pierre Fournier, Daniil Shafran, Mstislav Rostropovich. (I have never seen Shafran and Rostropovich together.)
A poster series about the historical music period I did for my Music appreciation class. I’m really pleased that a] I finished it! and b] that I like what I’ve done. The line lines up and all my building look nice and I’m just happy with it. I hope you guys like them too!
(via gestopft)
I’m bored, again……
(All due respect, no offense intended)
IF BRUCKNER HAD A BLOG
“Anton dear, why can’t you write posts that don’t sound all the same?”
(Source: classicalmusichumor, via gestopft)
 | If I were a Dead Russian Composer, I would be Dmitri Shostakovich! I am a shy, nervous, unassuming, fidgety, and stuttery little person who began composing the same year I started music lessons of any sort. I wrote the first of my fifteen symphonies at age 18, and my second opera, "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District," when I was only 26. Unfortunately, Stalin hated the opera, and put me on the Enemy Of The People List for life. I nevertheless kept composing the works I wanted to write in private; some of my vocal cycles and 15 string quartets mock the Soviet System in notes. And I somehow was NOT killed in the process! And Harry Potter(c) stole my glasses and broke them! http://www.doppelgriff.com/russian/dsch.html |
