Search - Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, Claude Debussy :: Sviatoslav Richter Out of Later Years, Vol. 3

Recital that touches your soul

Chi-Shao Lin | Los Angeles, USA | 02/17/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"A recital like this is truely a moment in the heaven. Richter revealed his emotion through his hands of indeed philosopher. The Beethoven Op. 110 has never been more powerful, in a sense it changes the way one thinks of life. No one has ever conveyed Beethoven's art this deep. And the Chopin Op. 61 - it is of grand scale. It is epical. With the essen of Chopin, can anyone ever image this work of this scale? At the last few bars, the accumulated development of whole playing bursts out and hence it is to enormous to bear. After the final note settled, I started to look for myself since I am so lost in his music - every time. Ending this disc with Ravel is magical. Totally lost in his playing, this piece comes as a time machine, or a cushion on a safe ground that pulls you back and helps you to land safely. However, it still takes a while for one to find his thought after listening to this disc - everytime."