A protégé of the fantastic Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter, Andrei Gavrilov won the 1974 Tchaikovsky Competition, uncovering himself as, in what of Harold Schonberg, “a virtuoso, sometimes an explosive one, that has Horowitz intuition that aren’t yet in order.” Schonberg, reflecting a lot of the general sense about Gavrilov, also …
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