A People's Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic adored by audiences everywhere, he also stood aloof, keeping his personal life to himself, vanishing from the rat race of the music "business" for whole months at a time. Instantaneous, instinctual rapport: Riccardo Muti and Sviatoslav Richter.īy the 1970s, when these recordings were made, Sviatoslav Richter had been reigning as an international titan of the keyboard for two decades.
Sviatoslav Richter, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Muti Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concertos No. Neither segment, be it noted, is especially quiet, not that I'm complaining. Stas Venglesvski, two-time winner of the Bayan Competition in his native Republic of Moldova, goes crazy in wilder fashion, chromatic button accordion sending forth whirling and rustling Moiré patterns in sound. Laying out out Susman's deliberate designs on multiple tracks, the flautist Patricia Zuber seems to me to display greater method than madness. t once calming and thought-provoking, the ear and mind to make their own connections without feeling overwhelmed by thematic constraints." Apart from the composer, on piano, four instrumentalists are at hand: Karen Bentley Pollick, versatile on strings and also a pianist Francesco Di Fiore, yet another pianist and the two we showcased in solo selections. Promotional material for the program promises "a photorealistic sound world of understated beauty. Patricia Zuber, flutes (all four of them) William Susman, A Quiet Madness (Belarca 2020) Here they are, in order of appearance, with track listings: Three albums only this time, but each a winner in its distinctive way.
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