Bach - Concerto no 1 in re minor - 3rd mov

[vivascargill1]

what happened to the damn video!!

[iguarni]

Sviatoslav Richter? Yes a legendary pianist!!!!

[vivascargill1]

glenn gould considered him the  greatest pianist of the century

[vivascargill1]

i heard this when i was 11 years old and fell out of my chair

[epessina]

OLEG KAGAN, 1st violin !!! :-)))

[paganviodio]

amazing, the guy plays from the orcestra partitur, he doesnt play from the piano part, but he has the same score what the conductor has.

an amazing performance. Richter...everything is thought...

another amazing thing is that, oleg kagan, a pupil oistrach, and a great violinist, is the first violinist here.

[paolocongia]

Clavicembalo o pianoforte? ...dovrebbe essere una discussione ormai superata. Lo stesso Bach non disdegnava di trascrivere lo stesso brano dal violino al clavicembalo (strumenti completamente diversi tra loro). Sebbene io preferisca altre versioni di questo concerto, questa di Richter è comunque godibilissima.

[bobmusick]

Ugh. This is badddd. It should be done in harpsichord. ITS A HARPSICHORD CONCERTO! I mean, it's very well played and I love it, but ugh... :(

[francescaemc2]

The concerto remains the same.

Richter and Bach rule.

end of argument.

[francescaemc2]

Why compare? You like something else?

Go listen to something else!

This is Richter playing Bach. If you could possibly want something else....go find it.

Just be quiet for those of us who want to hear exactly this. Please don't show off your "knowledge" by comparing Richter with anyone.

You want to hear a harpsichord. Do it.

Sviatoslav Richter and J.S. Bach are way beyond anyone's comparisons.

[portoxali]

In my opinion, on some passages Richter reaches the finest playing, however on the whole this performance seems to lack some special and enigmatic sound (similar to his WTC) that usually a listener exopects from him.

[francescaemc2]

Here is an enigma:

why are you listening to this?

I don't exopect [sic]  an answer.

[japanesesweet]

I've enjoyed Richter's recordings of Bach in the past hence why i was listening to it.

If i may say so:an over-reaction if there ever was one! calm down mate :-)

[portoxali]

I deeply admire Richter, however for me this fact does not make him immune to criticism (in some instances of course)

[francescaemc2]

The day you play better than he did, post it and we can have a conversation.

Criticism is for those who cannot create.

It is supercilious and boring. Ouch. I just made a criticism. May it be my last.

[portoxali]

Every artwork is there for critical appraisal, this is the nature of creative act, as it immanently presupposes the value judgment of the artist, therefore no artwork can be apprehended w/o critical approach either of the artist himself or the public, i.e recipient of the artwork.

[japanesesweet]

I like this very much-Richter's performance has a certain solididty about it.

However,my favourite recording is Mitropolus conducting the Concertgbow-Glenn Gould as soloist (live)

[francescaemc2]

then I suggest you listen to it.

[francescaemc2]

Richter rulz.

Capolavoro.

Bach....mitt Gott

Gott: Mitt Bach.

[Irinailiana]

А кто сидит в ложе?Д. Шостакович?

[SXSMF63]

thank u for posting these richter videos, my 1 year old has loved them since she was 2 months old and they truly enrich our day.

[kozborn]

I love Richter. I could hear his WTK endlessly. In my opinion Gould is sooooooo boring, saying he'd never played something the same way is a bullcrap. Everything's the same :( Compare Richter's and Gould's interpretation of BWV 865 for example and you'll know what I mean.

[nwshane]

Wow, I was going to get Richter's WTK recording, but after reading that I'm not sure I want to anymore. Since I love all of Gould's recordings, I guess we're basically opposites.

Let me give you some advice: you really don't need to insult one great pianist in order to complement another. Both Richter and Gould are great—and if you prefer one to the other, then that's fine for you, but you DON'T need to call all of Gould's recordings "the same."

[NRA51]

amazing!!

[frankkkappa]

GG is as said before ,now and in the future is a "little" cleaner ,efforteless, clear and perfect than this "hammer" playing style of Richter ! Good enough ! But not closer to GG !

[EmceeLorder]

You can never get enough of this piece.

[mojekajby]

Gould was absolutely superb in his initial recording of the Goldbergs...Richter's playing of the Bach d-minor (especially the earlier recording[from the 60s??] with a better conductor...I believe it was Rudolf Barshai)is closer to the "melos" of this piece than Gould's, although I admire Gould in other things, as stated above....

[ClassicalMMAChef]

What a contrast between the 1st and the second movement. The first movement is at lightning speed and the second is slower than other versions.

But you can never acuse Richter of not being intense, that said I still prefer Gould's interpretation.

[JEP177777]

I prefer the tempi and musicality of Gould. I like the clarity of the small ensemble in this performance.

[francescaemc2]

so listen to Gould. He's great.

get off my cloud.

[JEP177777]

I'm not on your cloud. Have you heard David Fray?

[francescaemc2]

It's a Rolling Stones quote.

No, I have not heard of David Fray.

[medmai]

david fray is a clown

[sonnym1]

You are right mltube..you cant improve on perfection...

[mltube]

Calling Gould's performance "great", won't make it any better.

[sonnym1]

I have to say...this is way too fast for me..but this is just my own opinion, I personally prefer the great glenn goulds performance.

[tutis22]

Sorry, Mravinsky!!

[tutis22]

Maravinsky!!

[firstwanderer]

Excellent, but at the end one longs to hear Glenn Gould next time.

[nietzschemasterclass]

I think the only mistake made by Richter in his entire career as a pianist, was that he didn't record all his repertoire in studio. In the other hand you have Horowitz who quit for a while from live appeareances and go back to the studio.

Do not misundertand my comment. Richter is superb, one of may favorite ones, but I have found in his live appearences lots of noises and sick people who will not let me to listen his incredible performances as they should be.

[key2738]

Great, but Gould is on another planet!

[gandalfs80]

as a great glenn gould fan, i can say that, richter is better than him on bwv 1052 recording. magneficient richter, salute you.

[jeremybines]

Who's the cunt at 1:59?

[richterfreak]

Uhm. That would be Nina Dorliak, Richter's long-term companion.

[mltube]

No, that's not her. In any case, jermybines probably meant the man in the middle, who looks to me like some Politbureau member, may be Suslov.

[crowe]

haaa!

[petrav64]

Syslov, I assume

[arnobrokamp]

To ramsmenon:

whatever his reasons: it must be kept in mind that richter was probably endowed with the most remarkable memory in the entire history of interpretation

[donchevmeister]

Richter is complete and extremely bright musician.He plays all the music, from Bach to Prokofiev, at the same highest level! He is the best one!

[smudgepots]

Superb, masterful and completely compelling - the antithesis of so many gutless so-called sophisticated Bach performances, this is magic and almost Stravinskian!

[ramsmenon]

Why is that richter always has sheet music in front of him. why doesn't he play like other concert pianists from memory?

[waltik123]

Richter was a perfectionist and, although he knew by heart what he was playing, wanted to have sheet music in front of him. I have never asked him "why," but does it really matter? His greatness is not judged by this and never contested.

[twotea22]

He started doing this after he suffered once from a "blackout" in concert and later he said that, with the score in front, it brings the performer back to what really was written in the score and prevented from "inventing" things that weren't there!

[jrogaw]

He plays this like he's trotting on a pony. No doubt Richter is a great musician, but this has none of the finesse (rythmic, dynamic, phrasing) of Glenn Gould.

[mltube]

If you compare even Gould's own recordings of this concerto, you may notice that the better performances are those where that "finesse" is toned down, like the one with Bernstein. Gould's approach works very well in Partitas and Invetions, and many other Bach pieces, but it is not nearly as effective in WTC and this work.

[rule914]

Gould's best recording of the D- Concerto is his performance live in Leningrad.

[japanesesweet]

I agree,that is better than the studio recording. Better still,for me....is the live recording with Mitropulous and the Concertebow.

[mltube]

Tour de force, iron-plated Bach. Awesome!