Richter

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani considers Sviatoslav Richter the greatest pianist of his century and connects him to the Soviet school and Soviet culture1. He often comes back to Richter's training as an opera accompanist and répétiteur in the USSR: there Richter stood in for the orchestra at the piano, and Pagani sees this as the source of his musicality2. He counts him among the performers who efface themselves before the work. Through his legato and melodic sense, Richter, in his view, puts the listener in direct contact with the composer3. He often cites Richter's very slow reading of Schubert's last sonata. It was through it, he says, that Richter made Glenn Gould understand Schubert, and Gould saw him as "the greatest medium of our time"4. He also mentions Richter's Debussy Préludes and the Pictures at an Exhibition he played in Sofia5. Finally, he takes up a remark of Richter's about daily practice, which he uses to illustrate the notion of work6.

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6. 6La panzer-philosophie contre le cogito : néo-fascisme ou idéologie de la nature. Heidegger/Descartes5 Mar 2022 · 30:42

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