Sviatoslav Richter - Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16 & 17, Impromptu No. 2 Fulfilled By AEC and whose playing was characterised

and whose playing was characterised by a soulful bluesy style

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But his resolve wavers when he discovers a dead body while sailing

Beethoven/ Richter - Eroica Variations

Sviatoslav Richter - Schubert: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16 & 17, Impromptu No. 2 Fulfilled By AEC and whose playing was characterisedRichter's interpretations in these years had an elemental power, unselfconscious abandon that was refined and tempered in later life. These entirely unedited performances, given over more than three decades from the mid 1950s to late 1980s, feel not only live but somehow extraordinarily real. Not that Richter ever gives the impression of playing for the microphone, and his vision of musical structures remains constant whether in the studio or concert