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Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

9.

Sviatoslav Richter – Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt

A powerful pianist whose temperament is fire. His technique and the attention to dynamics, his staccato is like gunfire, his absolute precision and power are frightening and sexy, to say the very least.

Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Lord Spikeheart, Tom Ravenscroft
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