Come on Elena! More colorful beautiful piano sound than Richter=Emil Gilels Wilhelm Kempff Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than Richter=Grigory Sokolov Solomon Cutner Maurizio Pollini! More powerful louder than Richter=Mikhail Pletnev(Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The second loudest was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! Horowitz his technique better than Richter!!
Concerning Richter's "mawkishness" : (German) Ist das ein Seitenhieb gegen die Rührseligkeit der Romantiker ? Thanks in advance for any clarifying comment.
There's always something beautiful about Richter's sound that touches the soul. His sound is special. When I close my eyes and listen to his performance, tears flow. Tears of joy and respect
Divinely played concerto!The beauty of adagio especially fascinates me...Rachmaninoff said that this is the most beautiful piano concerto ever written🎹💖🎹💖🎹💖🎹🎹🎹