John Sheldon's photos with the keyword: Sviatoslav Richter

"This music crept by me upon the waters" (The Tempest, by Shakespeare); or, rather, I ignorantly passed over the Schumann Fantasia for many decades before recently coming to love it. I heard this recording of Richter at Abbey Road Studios in online quality and decided I must have a real CD copy: even if I had to get it from Japan! I would happily have this CD as my grave goods. The CD also includes The Tempest Sonata by Beethoven. In another life I played that Sonata to a panel of senior professors at the RAM in London. They are all dead now, so it is too late for me to apologise.

Romantic music for St Valentine's Day. www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=znlUBaLH2zY#t=502 Picture is a 1967 LP with an image of the Ukranian pianist Sviatoslav Richter (1915 - 1997) superimposed. (Serif PhotoPlus software.)