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This program by Mikhail Kazinik is dedicated to Svyatoslav Richter — incomprehensible, mysterious, infinite... He is one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century. And although he is not a composer, but only a pianist, Mikhail Kazinik is convinced that we have a genius on the level of Johann Sebastian Bach before us. Mikhail Kazinik: “It is usually believed that a composer — a creator, a genius — talks to God, and a performer, in the best case, talks to the composer himself. In most cases, this is probably true. It is no coincidence that there is a long-standing dispute about how to play: to play yourself in your current time or to play the composer in his, that, time. This question never existed for such a genius as Svyatoslav Teofilovich Richter...” The program includes 4 small duets for harpsichord and organ by Johann Sebastian Bach. Richter performs them on the piano. “This is music that gives purification to the soul,” says Mikhail Kazinik. “It seems that Bach is alone with God, but this is especially felt when Richter plays.”