Richter l'insoumis

一部介绍Richter电影里所演奏作品的录音专辑。观众评价如下：This is an overwhelming experience. A fascinating portrait of one of the great artists of our time, it is beautifully crafted and is at turns poignant, witty, astonishing, and frustrating. If you love the piano, if you love music, if you admire Richter's recordings, then you must see this summary of his life. More importantly, if you have always been curious about his musical tastes and his personality, if you wanted to know more about him, hear his voice and look into his eyes, if you've always wondered what it is that separates a great artist from the legions of talented "performers", then this film is a revelation. Not because it provides an answer to those questions. It does not. It provides the converse. Just as Richter despised superfluous analysis, this film depicts how ultimately futile it is for us to attempt to understand the myriad influences and events that conspire to create an artistic genius of this proportion. We can no more understand Richter than we can understand a Mozart or a DaVinci or a Michelangelo. And the film makes it painfully clear that Richter himself, like many great artists, could not understand his gift. Unfortunately, due in large part to his perfectionism and self-criticism, his talent was both a gift and a curse. One has to wonder if he was ever truly happy, or if he understood the joy that his music brought to other people. Enigma indeed! Let us all simply be thankful that occasionally, through divine intervention or through random circumstances, the world is blessed with a human being of such complex beauty and individuality that analysis becomes irrelevant. They are simply a gift to humanity. Such was Richter. (By Lon Thompson (lont@firstsierra.com) on March 26, 1999)