| a great virtuoso work; for others, a short poetic meditation. Elisso Virsaladze has a whole stableful of them. The grande dame of Georgian music has an especial fondness for Mozart and the Romantics; her friend Sviatoslav Richter, who was not given to flattery, described her playing of Schumann as "beyond comparison"; and she understands Russian music as only a Slav can. A former pupil of Heinrich Neuhaus at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, where she herself now teaches, Virsaladze has long passed the stage where she needs to worry about technique. |
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