from
"Soviet literature", Vol.1961
Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1979
The Arts:
Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1979
The Arts:
"A MUSICIAN AND HIS ENCOUNTERS WITH THE WORLD OF ART"
Richter is not just a person: he is an event, a unique and extraordinary phenomenon, the highest expression of perfection. Each time he gives us something new, unprecedented and exceeding all his previous achievements in its grandeur, spontaneity, boldness and nobility. He plays with his entire being, summoning forth the music as it was summoned forth for the first time when it was composed, recreating the inspiration that gave birth to it, reaching to its very soul, as if becoming its author, and yet, at the same time, remaining completely himself. Without wasting even a moment on preliminaries, he quickly walks up to the piano, and from the first phrase you are listening not to the sound of an instrument but to the music itself which he creates anew...
...This is music which sounds with the same power as the lines of the great poets with their own independent and eternal life, as the books of great writers whose works represent a further step in the advancement of art and continue to exert an influence on people centuries after they have been written. While playing he conquers music and his himself conquered by it. His playing combines supreme freedom with infinite devotion to the composer, the greatest of tact and modesty, depth of intellect and youthful vigour. He admits us to the radiance of his boundless world, and, having once experienced this, we cannot imagine our lives without this world. I see the great pianist, Svyatoslav Richter, as ranking with composers, painters and poets of genius. Music, his immense repertoire and a taxing programme of concerts do not exhaust his creative energy or in any way restrict his interest in art. Thus throughout his life he has had a great love for the fine arts. His collection presented at the exhibition, "A Musician and His Encounters with the World of Art. An Exhibition of Portraits", shows this quite clearly. The musician is Richter himself and the encounters with the world of art are his own personal encounters. The exhibition compiled by Richter himself, reflects his attitude to the painters and to the subjects of the portraits — that is, to the artistic milieu which has shaped his own art and personality. At first he showed this collection to friends and close acquaintances privately in his own home. Then the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts suggested that he should show it to a wider public and to open it to all those who admire his own art and value the art of portraiture. Richter has written some explanatory notes for each of the twenty- eight portraits exhibited. These notes testify to his deep insight into he characters of the people portrayed by the painters, his understanding of the individual techniques of various artists, and to his own brilliant command of language. Thus the spiritual world of a great musician of our century opens before us from a new side.
Richter is not just a person: he is an event, a unique and extraordinary phenomenon, the highest expression of perfection. Each time he gives us something new, unprecedented and exceeding all his previous achievements in its grandeur, spontaneity, boldness and nobility. He plays with his entire being, summoning forth the music as it was summoned forth for the first time when it was composed, recreating the inspiration that gave birth to it, reaching to its very soul, as if becoming its author, and yet, at the same time, remaining completely himself. Without wasting even a moment on preliminaries, he quickly walks up to the piano, and from the first phrase you are listening not to the sound of an instrument but to the music itself which he creates anew...
...This is music which sounds with the same power as the lines of the great poets with their own independent and eternal life, as the books of great writers whose works represent a further step in the advancement of art and continue to exert an influence on people centuries after they have been written. While playing he conquers music and his himself conquered by it. His playing combines supreme freedom with infinite devotion to the composer, the greatest of tact and modesty, depth of intellect and youthful vigour. He admits us to the radiance of his boundless world, and, having once experienced this, we cannot imagine our lives without this world. I see the great pianist, Svyatoslav Richter, as ranking with composers, painters and poets of genius. Music, his immense repertoire and a taxing programme of concerts do not exhaust his creative energy or in any way restrict his interest in art. Thus throughout his life he has had a great love for the fine arts. His collection presented at the exhibition, "A Musician and His Encounters with the World of Art. An Exhibition of Portraits", shows this quite clearly. The musician is Richter himself and the encounters with the world of art are his own personal encounters. The exhibition compiled by Richter himself, reflects his attitude to the painters and to the subjects of the portraits — that is, to the artistic milieu which has shaped his own art and personality. At first he showed this collection to friends and close acquaintances privately in his own home. Then the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts suggested that he should show it to a wider public and to open it to all those who admire his own art and value the art of portraiture. Richter has written some explanatory notes for each of the twenty- eight portraits exhibited. These notes testify to his deep insight into he characters of the people portrayed by the painters, his understanding of the individual techniques of various artists, and to his own brilliant command of language. Thus the spiritual world of a great musician of our century opens before us from a new side.
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