his style is always warm and flowing Please search: Music The Big Four “Richter has neither the big, majestic line of a Rubinstein, nor the sheer, flogging power of a Serkin, nor the machine-tooled glitter of a Horowitz. But his technical equipment is excellent-as he demonstrated in Carnegie Hall when he played five Beethoven sonatas in a single evening, his style always warm and flowing and never showy. What really enthralled U.S. audiences was Richter's ability to sing his way into the emotional heart of the music: no pianist can so persuasively caress a melody, so delicately coax a piano into song.”