Sviatoslav Richter in Hungary. János Mácsai Talks with Dezső Ránki
Sviatoslav Richter in Hungary. János Mácsai Talks with Dezső Ránki

Summary/Abstract: This conversation took place after the release of a fourteen-disc set of recordings of Richter’s live performances in Hungary by Hungarian Radio and the Budapest Music Center. Richter had an enormous influence on Hungarian musical life. He first stepped onto a Hungarian concert platform in 1954 and his last concert was recorded by Hungarian Radio in 1993. In the four decades between, Richter regularly appeared in Hungary (sometimes without notice), giving sixty concerts altogether; twenty-eight in the capital and the rest in cities throughout the country either as a soloist, chamber musician or accompanist. Many pieces in the new set do not appear elsewhere. Richter was a major figure in the story of a generation of Hungarian pianists—Zoltán Kocsis, András Schiff and Dezsô Ránki among them—who began their careers in the 1970s. Ránki, who knew Richter and assembled a large private collection of his recordings, contributed to the editing process.

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