It was in Carnegie Hall and Sviatoslav Richter was playing the piano. The floor rumbled and the walls shook. It happened during the tumultuous passage in double octaves that opens the fugato in ...

Sviatoslav Richter is the last colossus. He is perhaps the greatest pianist of the 20th century, rivaled in reputation only by the intellectually less interesting and musically somewhat meretricious ...

Pianists are the lone wolves of the classical music world. The innate self-sufficiency of those 88 keys engaged in solo recital comes with a promise: You need not collaborate with or be compromised by ...

For the centennial of the great Russian's birth, critic and piano maven Steve Wigler recalls a herculean talent who shook Carnegie Hall to its... It was in Carnegie Hall and Sviatoslav Richter was ...