Paul Henry L a n g and Harold Sc h o n b e r g
Robert Taylor, Cyrus Durgyn
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Robert Taylor, Cyrus Durgyn
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Robert Taylor (Boston Herald)
Cyrus Durgyn (Boston Globe)
Paul Henry Lang (NY Herald Tribune)
An event of the musical season will be the Pension Fund Concert to be given by this Orchestra on Tuesday evening, November 1, in Symphony Hall. Sviatoslav Richter will be the soloist. (With Charles Munch)
◾Harold Schonberg, New York Times
◾Paul Henry Lang, N. Y. Herald Tribune
From "The pianist of the Century", Aaron Richmond presents Sviatoslav RichterFIRST SYMPHONY HALL RECITAL Sunday Evening, December 11, at 8:15
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASONS 1960-1961"He gave us a debut recital that was nothing less than a supreme challenge to all listeners to judge him as a musician, not a mere pianist . . . Mr. Richter is one of the truly great pianists of our age, a master musician and a master pianist . . . Richter amply justified the high expectations and the wonder stories that preceded him. He is a phenomenal artist, and if the Russians have any sense they will never call him home. He is worth fifty ambassadors and twenty-five divisions, he cannot be vanquished because he represents the genius of the Russian people, free of all malice and all mortal sin. For he is a genuine artist in the full and solemn meaning of the word". — Paul Henry Lang, N. Y. Herald Tribune, Oct. 20
"Mr. Richter's pianism combined astonishing technical mastery with bold, wide- ranging musical imagination. His control over the colorings ... "
Reviewing the first recital (Oct 19), a program of five Beethoven sonatas, Harold C. Schonberg reported in The New York Times.
From MUSIC: RUSSIAN SENSATION
Sviatoslav Richter in Carnegie Hall Debut
"Future programs will reveal other aspects of his pianism and of his musical approach. A Beethoven program, after all, is scarcely an index of all sides of a musician's mind. But if he plays any of those programs in anything but a brilliant manner, this writer will be the most surprised critic in the hemisphere."⬇
“every musician in town was present” and that, for once, “the sold-out house was seated an expectant 10 minutes before the stage lights went on".
". . . . His style is the Russian style of piano playing at its best — free , warm, romantic, without excess."''Despite a wonderful technique and the ability to make a magnificent piano sound, his style is essentially introspective.''
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➡ "There may have been a show-me attitude at the beginning", "Within 15 minutes all was dissipated in enthusiasm. Mr. Richter proved to be a pianist of style, poetry and imagination: a complete artist."
(New York Times, October 20, 1960)
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