Credits:

Sviatoslav Richter,Bach

Description:

Sviatoslav Richter (1915.3.20-1997.8.1) has been called the greatest pianist of the 20th century. Richter, known as an extreme perfectionist, overwhelmed listeners with his exceptionally concentrated, tense, and supremely polished performances of Bach. Richter’s richly varied musical ideas are clearly rendered with the versatility of a modern piano, and the songs of Bach’s music, which are both majestic and compassionate, are expressed with boundless empathy and a surprising liveliness that only a live performance can bring. (C)RS