2nd Moscow Richter International Piano Competition

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Tue Jun 17, 2008 7:30 am

Live broadcast of 2nd Moscow Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition from the Great Hall of the Moscow State Conservatory is here:
http://www.richtercompetition.com/2008/en_live.php
Playing order:
http://www.richtercompetition.com/2008/en_schedule.php

The participants level is very high.

Jury
Valery Afanassiev (France)
Idil Biret (Turkey)
Thomas Böttger (Germany)
Bella Davidovich (USA)
Peter Cosse (Germany)
Bruno Canino (Italy)
Ralf Gothoni (Finland)
Natalia Gutman (Russia)
Anna Malikova (Russia)
Victoria Postnikova (Russia)
Jean-Bernard Pommier (France)
Dario de Rosa (Italy)
Menachem Wiesenberg (Israel)
Tamás Vásáry (Hungary)
Xu Zhong (China)
Secretary of the Competition Jury:
Anatoly Katz (Russia)

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 11:43 am

Videorecordings of performances can be wached here:

http://richtervideo.rutube.ru/movies?view=full

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:37 pm

Free concerts.

Sounds good thanks.

Video link doesn't work here.

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:57 pm

Yagan Kiely wrote:
Video link doesn't work here.

Do you mean link of live broadcast or videorecordings on rutube?

On google video service there are some of performances, too.
Try this one.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... 0517121472

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:00 pm

I meant the rutube link.

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:18 pm

I see... Well, sorry about this, there are very interesting musicians on this competition. If I will know that recordings are placed somewhere else besides rutube, I'll tell here.

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Wed Jun 18, 2008 2:21 pm

Thanks

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:14 am

By the way, problems with rutube are due to DDOS attack, which has started yesterday at 3pm (Moscow time) and still goes on.

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:25 am

The Jury has announced a list of Round II competitors:

Yuri Blinov (Belarus)
Sergey Kasprov (Russia)
Fabio Romano (Italy)
Dmitry Karpov (Russia)
Zlata Chochieva (Russia)
Asaf Zohar (Israel)
Alexander Osminin (Russia)
Jue Wang (China)
Evgeni Bozhanov (Bulgaria)
Hwaen Ch'uqi (Peru / USA)
Alexey Zouev (Russia)
Jong-Gyung Park (Korea)

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:33 pm

Round III

June 26
6.30 pm

Fabio Romano (Italy)
L. van Beethoven
Piano concerto No. 4 in G major, op. 58
B. Bartok
Piano concerto No. 3 in E major, Sz. 119

Alexander Osminin (Russia)
W. A. Mozart
Piano concerto No. 17 in G major, K. 453
F. Liszt
Piano concerto No. 1 in E flat major, S. 124

June 27
6.30 pm

Jue Wang (China)
W. A. Mozart
Piano concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K. 595
S. Prokofiev
Piano concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16

Evgeni Bozhanov (Bulgaria)
W. A. Mozart
Piano concerto No. 25 in C major, K. 503
S. Rachmaninov
Piano concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18

June 28
6.30 pm

Alexey Zouev (Russia)
L. van Beethoven
Piano concerto No. 2 in B flat major, op. 19
S. Prokofiev
Piano concerto No. 2 in G minor, op. 16

Jong-Gyung Park (Korea)
W. A. Mozart
Piano concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
S. Rachmaninov
Piano concerto No. 2 in C minor, op. 18

Watch the competition live http://www.richtercompetition.com/2008/en_live.php

sixhobbits · Post by **sixhobbits** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:12 pm

Wow!! Thanks for this Sanifor.

Have just watched Evgeni Bozhanov playing. I haven't heard anyone (except of course Richter) playing Rachmaninoff's Second so perfectly. I haven't seen the rest of the competition, but it looks like Evgeni has a good chance...

Post by **Yagan Kiely** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:16 pm

I wish I weren't on dialup speeds...

My 'unlimited' broadband ran out for this month.

Sanfior · Post by **Sanfior** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 5:52 am

And here are the results:

THE SVIATOSLAV RICHTER PRIZE
not awarded

SECOND PRIZE
Evgeni Bozhanov (Bulgaria)

THIRD PRIZE
Jue Wang (China)
Jong-Gyung Park (Korea)

FOURTH PRIZE
Fabio Romano (Italy)

FIFTH PRIZE
Alexey Zouev (Russia)

SIXTH PRIZE
Alexander Osminin (Russia)

PRIZE of the MOSCOW GOVERNMENT
(awarded by the jury)
Sergey Kasprov (Russia)

In my opinion, Bozhanov was worthy of first prize...

sixhobbits · Post by **sixhobbits** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:30 am

"In my opinion, Bozhanov was worthy of first prize... "

Of course. Easily!

The A$$h01es just didn't want to pay out the cash. Wonder what will happen to it.