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Topic: Question about Richter playing Ravel  (Read 2200 times)

Offline Petter

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Question about Richter playing Ravel
on: September 28, 2008, 10:34:01 PM


Anyone know if it´s possible to find this preformance on an audio CD?
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Re: Question about Richter playing Ravel
Reply #1 on: May 07, 2009, 12:14:50 PM
Bump, anyone?
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Re: Question about Richter playing Ravel
Reply #2 on: May 07, 2009, 08:36:51 PM
Bump?!  Illuminate me, please.
Speaking of Ravel and Richter.  When he was interviewed once regarding his repertoire, the journalist noted that out of the 40 some concertos he had under his hands at the moment, the ravel was missing.  He asked about it, and Richter said, after he heard Michelangeli perform it, he knew there was nothing more to be said.







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Re: Question about Richter playing Ravel
Reply #3 on: May 07, 2009, 09:58:32 PM
Buming is internet lingo. :) Since this post was never answered and fell into the obscurity of the second page I "bumped" it incase someone would notice it this time.
I think I have that  Michelangeli Record, is it the one with Rachmaninoff 4th aswell?
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Re: Question about Richter playing Ravel
Reply #4 on: May 08, 2009, 06:00:27 AM
That's it!

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Re: Question about Richter playing Ravel
Reply #6 on: May 10, 2009, 01:38:44 AM
That discography is incomplete.  I recall having a recording of Richter playing Alborada from a Prague concert.

Richter's Ravel is wonderful, but imo Dinu Lipatti outplays everyone in Alborada:



Probably one of Lipatti's finest achievements.  This recording has been issued zillions of times on countless labels and isn't hard to find, btw.
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Re: Question about Richter playing Ravel
Reply #7 on: May 10, 2009, 11:30:47 AM
I am almost certain Richter has recorded it.
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