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  • Re: Richter Real Slow

    From gggg gggg@21:1/5 to weary flake on Wed Jan 18 22:57:41 2023
    On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 4:22:47 PM UTC-8, weary flake wrote:
    Richter is said to drove a Mercedes, and never drove higher
    than 80 kilometers per hour; that's real slow.

    I get this data from the booklet of an Aura CD:

    amazon.com/dp/B000NZS018/

    that I wanted for a while because it had his last recorded
    Franck prelude, choral and fugue, from 1994, but didn't buy
    until I saw this out of print CD recently in a real record store
    for $4.95. This is cheaper than the current $79.95 price or
    the $25 or so price it was recently so this is another
    rebuttal to the claim that CDs are "always cheaper online".
    The timings printed on the cover are about the same as his
    1955 Melodiya recording, but I haven't listened to it yet,
    I'm a bit slow myself though I don't drive as slow as Richter.

    (2023 Y. upload):

    "Slower IS Better: Sviatoslav Richter"

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  • From Joseph Li@21:1/5 to gggg gggg on Thu Jan 19 11:02:12 2023
    On Wednesday, January 18, 2023 at 10:57:44 PM UTC-8, gggg gggg wrote:
    On Monday, January 15, 2018 at 4:22:47 PM UTC-8, weary flake wrote:
    Richter is said to drove a Mercedes, and never drove higher
    than 80 kilometers per hour; that's real slow.

    I get this data from the booklet of an Aura CD:

    amazon.com/dp/B000NZS018/

    that I wanted for a while because it had his last recorded
    Franck prelude, choral and fugue, from 1994, but didn't buy
    until I saw this out of print CD recently in a real record store
    for $4.95. This is cheaper than the current $79.95 price or
    the $25 or so price it was recently so this is another
    rebuttal to the claim that CDs are "always cheaper online".
    The timings printed on the cover are about the same as his
    1955 Melodiya recording, but I haven't listened to it yet,
    I'm a bit slow myself though I don't drive as slow as Richter.
    (2023 Y. upload):

    "Slower IS Better: Sviatoslav Richter"

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  • From Andy Evans@21:1/5 to weary flake on Sat Mar 4 03:04:32 2023
    On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 00:22:47 UTC, weary flake wrote:
    Richter is said to drove a Mercedes, and never drove higher
    than 80 kilometers per hour; that's real slow.

    I get this data from the booklet of an Aura CD:

    Good man. I don't drive fast either. Shame that doesn't make me a better pianist......

    When I think "slow" and "Richter" I think of Schubert Sonata 18 in G. The first movement takes 27 minutes.

    Being Richter, he obviously makes it work at that tempo.

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  • From Dan Koren@21:1/5 to Andy Evans on Sat Mar 4 03:06:35 2023
    On Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 3:04:34 AM UTC-8, Andy Evans wrote:
    On Tuesday, 16 January 2018 at 00:22:47 UTC, weary flake wrote:

    Richter is said to drove a Mercedes, and never drove higher
    than 80 kilometers per hour; that's real slow.

    On the contrary, on many of the roads where he
    drove 80 kph was really fast!

    dk

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