Elisso is an artist of highest caliber, perhaps the most outstanding woman pianist of our time. She is a deeply sincere, serious and extremely modest musician. I am impressed by her in every way. Could you imagine a more beautiful Schumann than the one played tonight by Elisso? Since Neuhaus I haven't heard such a Schumann performance.

Sviatoslav Richter
from B. Monsaingeon, Richter, Éditions Van de Velde/Actes Sud/Arte Éditions 1998

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