The Great Gate of Kiev

Not more frustrating.

more frustrating but more interesting and I think you have to embrace that frustration that you will never reach your destination or your goal and that you will always be looking and it's so nice and it's so beautiful and you always find every time I have to play a piece again that I've played that I've learned let's say 10 years ago for example it's so nice and so fascinating how you still find new things in the music when you open the scores again and you think okay i didn't see this 10 years ago so how how why why did i not know this 10 years ago and then you discover new things and it's just so beautiful so you don't feel like as if you're finished it's it's it's a never ending discovery situation which is just really really nice Because you were accepted

into some kind of impressive degree for mathematics.

Yeah, yeah, exactly.

He has a link to our next track of music, Alex, Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto.

Would you mind explaining how?

Yes, this was actually the piece I played to him six hours before he passed.

Was it unexpected? We didn't know.

This, for most people, would be their first encounter with Sviatoslav Richter.

Here are the two thrilling sections that conclude Mussorgsky's pictures at an exhibition, The Hut of Baba Yaga and The Great Gate of Kiev.

This is about eight minutes of music, and despite the rather poor recording quality, I hope you can hear the explosive brilliance of Richter's playing.

🎵 🎵 Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That was Sviatoslav Richter live in Sofia in Bulgaria in 1958, performing the two sections that conclude Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, The Hut of Baba Yaga and The Great Gate of Kiev.

Okay, a little biography.

Yeah, because the music sounds l- is frenetic, and so is the dancing.

Um, uh, Limoges, the Market at Limoges, uh, Roman Sepulcher, uh, With the Dead in a Dead Language, uh, Baba Yaga, and The Great Gate of Kiev.

So that's the final really sort of triumphant, uh, section of the ballet, The Great Gate of Kiev.

Uh, of course very close to Alexei Ratmansky's heart.

So, um, but you've got everybody listed here.