En la pista virtuosistica de los teclados mundiales de marfil, Richter es el mejor. Tal vez menos lo era esta sala de grabación, cuya acústica está totalmente seca.
@scientistpatrick - No, the recording is not THAT old. I tuned pianos for much of my working life, thus my moniker (A444 is the frequency of concert A in much of Europe and Japan), and I can tell you that the second octave above middle C is particularly out of tune. Stage lighting can sometimes be the culprit. It's very hot and can heat up the piano and cause it to go out of tune. Or Richter was practicing immediately before the recording was made and the tuner had already left.
@ericisindebt Prokofiev has a lot of very popular melodious pieces, like Lieutenant Kije or the Cinderella Waltz or Peter and the Wolf. But his truly cerebral and powerful pieces have desolate atonal spaces mixed with haunting and sometimes heartbreaking melodies, sarcasm, and fiendish, demonic dances. He also likes to cram a bunch of melodies together in a dissonant snarl. The most badass thing ever written is Movement 3 of piano concerto 2, Ashkenazy's, imo.
Wouldn't you imagine after going to the trouble to engage Richter for this performance, and arranging the architectural sculptures, and hiring the cameramen, etc., that somebody would have thought to have the piano tuned?!
I can learn from from watching most great pianists, but Richter's secrets seem a bit impenetrable to me though - like he's a bit too far above my capabilities to understand! There's something quite godlike about this guy's playing during this period.
Richter is the greatest Prokofiev interpreter that i' ve ever heard...only Efim Bronfman can challenge him with regards to the true Emotion, Feel, Skill and Mastery in his playing ...just sublime ART... amazing interpretation here...no words...just listen folks.!
I find it funny that people attempt to find interpretative flaws with his Prokofiev, especially since he premiered most of the Prokofiev sonatas. No one will ever be richter.
@extrasharpcheddar1 Correct me if I am wrong, but he didnt premiere most of them ? okay, I know he premiered his famous 7th. He didnt even play the 3rd one because nobody would play it better than Gilels. Also, Gilels premiered the 8th one. However, 2nd sonate was his warhorse so I would believe that :)
@ReturnOfTheStienway i just allow myself to assure you that, this upload DOES sound better than prokofiev himself. it is just a prejudicy to believe that, beethoven plays the sonatas he composed better than anybody, or, mozart, or rachmaninoff....or anybody else in this matter. composing, is just another discipline than to play it proper....beethoven COULDNT play a tune on violin, but composed one of the greatest violin concerto.
@Lity who was violin virtuoso?...what the HECK YOU are talking about?...i say that so good could prokofiev also not play this piece....i give to it also another example, that it is just a prejudicy to believe that the composer plays the piece the best...and then i even underline that with another eample that BEETHOVEN couldnt play violin at all, bur wrote one of the mos demanding concertos...did you now understand?...
@paganviodio yes, I do understand that you say Beethoven couldn't play violin at all - and I understand you use him as an example, but an example can either be true or false.
So do you mean Beethoven couldn't play violin for real or was it just something you made up to underline your point?
@Lity10 beethoven wasnt a violinist, he played viola a little, but far from playing his violin concerto, more further than playing a piece like "kreutzer sonata"...you havent written at first as you do understand , that´s i wrote whole these....
@JohnEBProductions well...the discussion was about the violin abilities of beethoven, i can also imagine taht prokofiev has played the sonata...he palyed most of his piano pieces- at the end, he was a pianist.
@paganviodio Beethoven had an extensive knowledge about violin playing, some of which had to have been from some sort of practical ability. There are also some historical records that could testify that he did play violin. However, he was not a virtuoso, and probably couldn't play his more demanding works...but who knows!!
@LeonidasBasileus what does "extensive knowledge" mean?...anybody can have "extensive knowledge" about playing the violin, or flying a plane...there is no historicall recording in which beethoven play violin. well...the cello part of the "triple concerto" is also very difficult for cello, and beatifull...but he for sure didnt play cello. he doesnt have to play the instrument in order to write nice music for it.
When it comes to Richter you know you'll find his pattern of quality. It's very difficult to have him misinterpretating something. Especially when it comes to fellow Prokofiev!
(sorry for my english).....i discovered this sonata : the first movement is very beautiful....There are superbs colors.....someone can tell me more about this piece or how play it please??? Bigs thanks!!
I agree, Prokofievs lyricism is often viewed as being somewhat ironic and in many cases that is the case. In the second subject theme of this sonata however I feel there is great sincerity in the expression, especially in Richters superb hands.
I absolutely agree with you, its an exiting part.until 1:58 I think next year I will extract some parts from Prokovjefs Sonatas. I don't like some overdone fortissimo presto parts. but upt to 50 % are hauntingly beautiful.
the middle section of the second movement here is so much better than Viridzadze or however you say ehr name, plays it. Richt plays it mechanically, as it should be, following prok's wish that there be staccato.
According to Richter's discography this is his first recording of it. But I like his later recordings of this Sonata more. Just doesn't connect here as well as his later recordings.
yes with out a doubt deep red. colors to pieces to me arent defined by chord but by notes alone. and lol i didn't think it was a random interjetion i knew
thats called synesthesia, not perfect pitch. I have perfect pitch and do not see colors when hearing notes/chords. This piece is a light yellow to me, by the way... no idea why.
Synesthesia is usually a pose, related to mysticism. People have all sorts of mystical notions about music. The number of people who have this disorder is quite small, and there's nothing romantic about it. It's simply the inability of the brain to properly filter stimuli.
Seeing as it inspires so many great musicians such as Scriabin, I really wouldn't call Synaesthesia an inability, it is more particularly caused by the links of nervous impulses from certain zones of the brain, it can be many combinations, and not always from sensory stimuli. In fact it is suspected Einstein was able to think so "outside the box" with his maths was because the mathematical and Spatial awareness zones of his brain were closely linked by neurons, it seems to add extra dimensions..
...to thought, imperative for a musician, especially one tackling romantic music. Lots of people consciously think about music in terms of smell, sight, touch, taste, and of course sound, as well as the impulsive types that, well have no choice! I think I know what you mean about synaesthesia being a pose...
...to thought, imperative for a musician, especially one tackling romantic music. Lots of people consciously think about music in terms of smell, sight, touch, taste, and of course sound, as well as the impulsive types that, well have no choice! I think I know what you mean about synaesthesia being a pose...
... there's thinking about music in the romanticism way I do which many musicians do nowadays relating music to other senses, and there's synaesthesia which is subconscious which too many people confuse with the former or pose as. And if art cant be mystical and non-materialistic, then whats the point in it? Sorry for the length of my little essay!!!
'simply' the inability of the brain to properly filter stimuli? if you're going that way, you may as well say that the whole of human consciousness is just electrical signals and neuronal connections. i mean, you're leaving out the whole depth of human experience...
and mysticism is ingrained in music, as in all art. beauty is something that transcends scientific interpretation.
I do, but try to listen to Edsone Elias here on Youtube, a great surprise, and Severin van Eckardstein does a creditable job, heard him once life in Amsterdam playing Prokofievs 6th
The first time i heard this, my cousin was learning this, and I don't know why, but i got teary. It was just so beautiful hearing something like this.
I agree. Neither Richter's nor Glenn Gould's recording of the well tempered clavier should be missing in a good collection of classical music. They are different but both absolutely beautiful.
macromera: your knowledge of music and Richter is supercillious. Miss Argerich knows she is a mushroom huddling beneath a great oak. Ask her, she will be first to admit it. Somewhere in Richter's 900 hundred piece repertoire you wil find a bit of "linear/pianissimo."
i'v heard all the big boys play from Horowitz, Gould, Gilels, Arrau, Serkin,Ashkanazi, Cliburn, Kissin, Evo,Rubinstien, etc., etc. Combined, they do not = half a Richter! After Sviatoslav (the blessed Slav) their remains only redundancy. They all know it too-ask!
Sorry, 'blessed Slav' is really good ...Richter touchée is too tense and his interpretaion is so linear.... where is the pianissimos?, Miss Argerich is still the best ...
He is great but you are in denial. Everyone has their own interesting aspects. To dismiss those great performers is fucking stupid and you know it!!!!!
Well spoken. There is such a gap between him and the rest that they truly all do not equal half a richter and please all stop with Horowitz ridiculous. America made him out to be this big hot shot pianist. He should not even be in the same sentence or paragraph as Richter.....
Oh well thanks for humoring me. But if you insist on liking Richter less than Horowitz, why not take your post anywhere but here under this Prokofiev vid? Not that I would agree but at least I would understand it better.
It is as he wants to avoid the "human touch", that what make's us human... emotions... fire... If I hear him, I cannot help it, I do not hear a man who is busy trying to make music, only playing note's and now and then some difference between forte and piano, no rubato, no lyrical moments...
If you dont understand richter's interpretations you should just say that you don get it. Richter was a genius, with more faculties than horowitz, and richter was the best pianist of the century, and you wont change it.
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He had more technique then horowitz it think, but he was no musician, in fact he was a very very bad musician. Most of the time he played only the note's and tried to avoid emotion...
Don't really know, very often, however, Prokofiev that is not played by Richter is downoright inadequate.
I can for sure point out Suggestion Diabolique - NO PERFORMER, and that really means no performer, even got close to Ricther's rendition. He stands out like a rock star, miles ahead of everybody else. No wonder there's people defining him as the best pianist ever...
OnGuardForPeace: oftentimes actual pitch is modified by recording equipment, digitalization filters and even playback equipment. Richter's piano could easily have been tuned precisely to A440 and kept to it through his actual performance. If you played this YouTube file on your computer audio setup and tested it with a digital tuner, there is a strong chance A440 was lost somewhere along the way! :)
this sonata is 4 parts. the second part which is the scherzo and goes from 6:50s to 8:35s of this video is very hard and no one played it like Richter. i bought a cd and i got very disappointed.
This sonata inspires me every time I hear it. It is so genious!! Richter does an excellent job. He is also quite inspiring. I know I will refer to his recordings someday when I play this piece if I ever do.
JE LAI EN VINYLLLE!!!!! <3 love Richter
1862Debussy 1 month ago
En la pista virtuosistica de los teclados mundiales de marfil, Richter es el mejor. Tal vez menos lo era esta sala de grabación, cuya acústica está totalmente seca.
Nimenicamine01 1 month ago
One of my favorite piano pieces!
FaithForever1988 2 months ago
OMFG! Awesome!!
willsoneto 2 months ago
@scientistpatrick - No, the recording is not THAT old. I tuned pianos for much of my working life, thus my moniker (A444 is the frequency of concert A in much of Europe and Japan), and I can tell you that the second octave above middle C is particularly out of tune. Stage lighting can sometimes be the culprit. It's very hot and can heat up the piano and cause it to go out of tune. Or Richter was practicing immediately before the recording was made and the tuner had already left.
TunaFishA444 4 months ago
Sounds like music from the twilight zone, I understand music is very subjective. I can't even make out a melody in this. Maybe I'm just jaded.
ericisindebt 4 months ago
@ericisindebt Try listening again :)
flitflint 4 months ago
@ericisindebt Prokofiev has a lot of very popular melodious pieces, like Lieutenant Kije or the Cinderella Waltz or Peter and the Wolf. But his truly cerebral and powerful pieces have desolate atonal spaces mixed with haunting and sometimes heartbreaking melodies, sarcasm, and fiendish, demonic dances. He also likes to cram a bunch of melodies together in a dissonant snarl. The most badass thing ever written is Movement 3 of piano concerto 2, Ashkenazy's, imo.
hymnofashes 1 month ago
Wouldn't you imagine after going to the trouble to engage Richter for this performance, and arranging the architectural sculptures, and hiring the cameramen, etc., that somebody would have thought to have the piano tuned?!
TunaFishA444 4 months ago
@TunaFishA444 Detuning might have been due to the old age of the recording, not the actual piano.
scientistpatrick 4 months ago
I can learn from from watching most great pianists, but Richter's secrets seem a bit impenetrable to me though - like he's a bit too far above my capabilities to understand! There's something quite godlike about this guy's playing during this period.
MrCinemuso 6 months ago
Terrific.
hashalibi 6 months ago
Richter is the greatest Prokofiev interpreter that i' ve ever heard...only Efim Bronfman can challenge him with regards to the true Emotion, Feel, Skill and Mastery in his playing ...just sublime ART... amazing interpretation here...no words...just listen folks.!
sessionmessiah 6 months ago
@sessionmessiah You should hear Biret's reading of this sonata.
OriginalBasaliskos 4 months ago
eich.....and that from a miserable little cunt like Prokoviev was known to be
bonsema1 7 months ago
Bravo! Bravo! I love everything about Richter and this performance of Prokofiev's sonata is top-notch!! Nothing negative can be said about it.
capthook1 8 months ago
I find it funny that people attempt to find interpretative flaws with his Prokofiev, especially since he premiered most of the Prokofiev sonatas. No one will ever be richter.
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@extrasharpcheddar1 Correct me if I am wrong, but he didnt premiere most of them ? okay, I know he premiered his famous 7th. He didnt even play the 3rd one because nobody would play it better than Gilels. Also, Gilels premiered the 8th one. However, 2nd sonate was his warhorse so I would believe that :)
BlazeKenny 4 months ago
bad props
TheKsk1997 1 year ago
I love how he comes running up to the piano. I love everything about this!
petezilla 1 year ago
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J'en pleure...quelle puissance!
34kant 1 year ago
J'en pleure...quelle puissance.
34kant 1 year ago
if he keeps on practicing like that then some day he might play like me.
gohanisbuckethead 1 year ago 2
What an upload! Thank you so much!
AntipovSvyatoslav 1 year ago
dumaju prokofjevu eto ocen ponravilos:)
Sloniara78 1 year ago
I mov. Allegro, ma non troppo. 0:00 - 6:45
II mov. Scherzo. 6:46 - 8:36
III mov. Andante. 8:37- ...
filopaa1990 1 year ago 4
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filopaa1990 1 year ago
Only Russians can.
filopaa1990 1 year ago
Some parts are so romantic, and then it's splendidly contrasted with modernism. So characteristic of Prokofiev.
Flutist11 1 year ago
why did he like, run up to the piano so fast? haha.
siebenboy 1 year ago
Richter's Prokofiev performances are soooooooo gooood. I really think its close to how Prokofiev might have sounded
ReturnOfTheStienway 1 year ago
@ReturnOfTheStienway i just allow myself to assure you that, this upload DOES sound better than prokofiev himself. it is just a prejudicy to believe that, beethoven plays the sonatas he composed better than anybody, or, mozart, or rachmaninoff....or anybody else in this matter. composing, is just another discipline than to play it proper....beethoven COULDNT play a tune on violin, but composed one of the greatest violin concerto.
paganviodio 1 year ago 3
@paganviodio OK. Thanks!
ReturnOfTheStienway 1 year ago
@paganviodio
Comment le sais-tu ?
les as-tu entendus ?
Et à parler dans le vide, on dit des conneries; la preuve: écoute le Rach 3 par Serguei.
tonycosworth 1 year ago
@paganviodio what the HECK do you mean? He was a violin virtuoso, Beethoven that is.
Lity10 1 year ago
@Lity who was violin virtuoso?...what the HECK YOU are talking about?...i say that so good could prokofiev also not play this piece....i give to it also another example, that it is just a prejudicy to believe that the composer plays the piece the best...and then i even underline that with another eample that BEETHOVEN couldnt play violin at all, bur wrote one of the mos demanding concertos...did you now understand?...
paganviodio 1 year ago
@paganviodio yes, I do understand that you say Beethoven couldn't play violin at all - and I understand you use him as an example, but an example can either be true or false.
So do you mean Beethoven couldn't play violin for real or was it just something you made up to underline your point?
Lity10 1 year ago
@Lity10 beethoven wasnt a violinist, he played viola a little, but far from playing his violin concerto, more further than playing a piece like "kreutzer sonata"...you havent written at first as you do understand , that´s i wrote whole these....
paganviodio 1 year ago
@paganviodio What do you mean, sorry? And I don't get it.. Beethoven did play violin very well :S?
Lity10 1 year ago
@Lity10 no beethoven didnt play violin very well, who told you such a thing....this is a wrong information.
paganviodio 1 year ago
@paganviodio I don't think you're right, I think I read it somewhere.. where did you read it?
Lity10 1 year ago
@paganviodio Uhm.. it's documented that Prokofiev played this sonata before a few private guests, one of them being Richter.
JohnEBProductions 1 year ago
@JohnEBProductions well...the discussion was about the violin abilities of beethoven, i can also imagine taht prokofiev has played the sonata...he palyed most of his piano pieces- at the end, he was a pianist.
paganviodio 1 year ago
@paganviodio Beethoven had an extensive knowledge about violin playing, some of which had to have been from some sort of practical ability. There are also some historical records that could testify that he did play violin. However, he was not a virtuoso, and probably couldn't play his more demanding works...but who knows!!
LeonidasBasileus 1 year ago
@LeonidasBasileus what does "extensive knowledge" mean?...anybody can have "extensive knowledge" about playing the violin, or flying a plane...there is no historicall recording in which beethoven play violin. well...the cello part of the "triple concerto" is also very difficult for cello, and beatifull...but he for sure didnt play cello. he doesnt have to play the instrument in order to write nice music for it.
paganviodio 1 year ago
Основные Рихтера
Grande.
belialah 1 year ago
This place looks like the Arcane Santuary and it perfectly fits the music.
pierolivier111 1 year ago
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arcane sanctuary :O yes
bowmanlz 1 year ago
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surrealillness 1 year ago
@surrealillness You put the dumb in wisdom asshat.
Gargantupimp 1 year ago
When it comes to Richter you know you'll find his pattern of quality. It's very difficult to have him misinterpretating something. Especially when it comes to fellow Prokofiev!
martimtavares 2 years ago
listened to most of the other artiists.....
R shows mastership and brings the creation to life.
mradipatti 2 years ago
(sorry for my english).....i discovered this sonata : the first movement is very beautiful....There are superbs colors.....someone can tell me more about this piece or how play it please??? Bigs thanks!!
117mathieu 2 years ago 2
ah.... ce morceau est vraiment incroyable....
livivire 2 years ago 13
yes, you are right... Sviatoslav floats over all of it, and drops in when he wants to play
gzaenker 1 year ago
1:13 to 1:50 is such a hauntingly beautiful melody.
DBEEZZYY 2 years ago 4
I agree, Prokofievs lyricism is often viewed as being somewhat ironic and in many cases that is the case. In the second subject theme of this sonata however I feel there is great sincerity in the expression, especially in Richters superb hands.
meredith21846 2 years ago
I absolutely agree with you, its an exiting part.until 1:58 I think next year I will extract some parts from Prokovjefs Sonatas. I don't like some overdone fortissimo presto parts. but upt to 50 % are hauntingly beautiful.
Can you play piano ?
aladinschneider 2 years ago
Actually yes, and I think the differences he makes in tempo and dynamics make it all the more interesting to the ear.
DBEEZZYY 2 years ago
don't deprive Prokofiev from his fortissimo!
martimtavares 2 years ago
wow, this is good! i havent heard so good version yet.
drizka 2 years ago
oh man, just quit it with the colours and feel the music...
stefthe80 2 years ago
Who have a notes to this piece?
Help me :)
AnnMarry19 2 years ago
I have =)
Azissssss 2 years ago
Thank you, but I found this notes :)
AnnMarry19 2 years ago
Amazing!
AnnMarry19 2 years ago
0:34 love how he brings down that line from above, which i never realy payed attentinon to even though I'm playing this
skryabyn 2 years ago
the middle section of the second movement here is so much better than Viridzadze or however you say ehr name, plays it. Richt plays it mechanically, as it should be, following prok's wish that there be staccato.
skryabyn 2 years ago
I think we've all decided on light blue grey because of the visuals themselves probably- grey but light enough at times to seem blue. ?
skryabyn 2 years ago
awesome is right.....
i thought that his usual best definitely shone through here.
mradipatti 2 years ago
how about a yellowish blue ?
mradipatti 2 years ago
it's interesting, that he doesn't like this Sonata, just learn it!.. He is awesome..
dyulyubitejika 2 years ago
how do u know that he didn't like it?
acridplacidity3 2 years ago
I've read about it in his bio!!!
dyulyubitejika 2 years ago
I've performed this piece some time ago, but not nearly this well. Wonderful interpretation. One day...
radudeATL 2 years ago
wow the 2nd movement is really hard... even a man of richter's calibre made a few mistakes here and there.. jeez!
xxh3llfir3xx 2 years ago
i think of a light blue-grey...
methankyu 3 years ago
I'll second blue.
mbenoni7 3 years ago
&fmt=18 at end of video for higher quality and 1 second added.
ChrisWatch 3 years ago
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I think I have a midi file with more flair and vibrato than this performance >>
John11inch 3 years ago
lol
ChrisWatch 3 years ago
Skepto?
micheldvorsky 3 years ago
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Great pianist, but the piece of music is a terd. Prokofiev wrote a few great things, this piece is not one of them.
maxscriptguru 3 years ago
Wunderbar!!!!!!!!!!
kym5222 3 years ago
Richter's Prokofiev is always something interesting, and this certainly isn't an exception
singsinsing 3 years ago
According to Richter's discography this is his first recording of it. But I like his later recordings of this Sonata more. Just doesn't connect here as well as his later recordings.
RabidCh 3 years ago
I like the little effect he does at 7:30.
OorvakanSar 3 years ago
haha what a patology of "Prestomoltoagitato"..............
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z666z666z 3 years ago
GREAT version.
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z666z666z 3 years ago
What an entrance! Looks like he was pushed onto the stage... and then he delivers!!
sznitzeln 3 years ago 3
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Yes sznitzeln..i think he was with his asshole too hot that day.
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z666z666z 3 years ago
that's too funny
supermanifold 3 years ago
ни хрена не поймёте,умельцы...
baggaboy121 4 years ago 8
The man knew Prokofiev personally.
AlC92575 4 years ago 3
Reading your comments.... It sounds like you are the best of all centuries. Come on, let us give a comment about your own playing... :-)
vachlis 4 years ago
8:38 - 9:14 such a dark red
prestomoltoagitato 4 years ago
that's your interpretation. this has nothing to do with the color red.
sznitzeln 3 years ago
yeah thats true. not only do i see red, i feel red.
prestomoltoagitato 3 years ago
Red? somehow this is blue-grey to me... i don't really know, but d minor seems blue-grey intuitively
skryabyn 3 years ago 2
if you think this is a completely random interjection, it isnt, since there had been a discussion earlier on on the color of this peice.
skryabyn 3 years ago
yes with out a doubt deep red. colors to pieces to me arent defined by chord but by notes alone. and lol i didn't think it was a random interjetion i knew
prestomoltoagitato 3 years ago
that's weird. i thought of it as blue also
filthysoap 2 years ago
it is commonly known that synestethic visions vary depending on the person. (People who have perfect pitch and hear tones and chords as colours)
capriccietto 2 years ago
thats called synesthesia, not perfect pitch. I have perfect pitch and do not see colors when hearing notes/chords. This piece is a light yellow to me, by the way... no idea why.
youvebeensmoked 2 years ago
Synesthesia is usually a pose, related to mysticism. People have all sorts of mystical notions about music. The number of people who have this disorder is quite small, and there's nothing romantic about it. It's simply the inability of the brain to properly filter stimuli.
superstition222 2 years ago
Seeing as it inspires so many great musicians such as Scriabin, I really wouldn't call Synaesthesia an inability, it is more particularly caused by the links of nervous impulses from certain zones of the brain, it can be many combinations, and not always from sensory stimuli. In fact it is suspected Einstein was able to think so "outside the box" with his maths was because the mathematical and Spatial awareness zones of his brain were closely linked by neurons, it seems to add extra dimensions..
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...to thought, imperative for a musician, especially one tackling romantic music. Lots of people consciously think about music in terms of smell, sight, touch, taste, and of course sound, as well as the impulsive types that, well have no choice! I think I know what you mean about synaesthesia being a pose...
CROMPZ65 2 years ago
...to thought, imperative for a musician, especially one tackling romantic music. Lots of people consciously think about music in terms of smell, sight, touch, taste, and of course sound, as well as the impulsive types that, well have no choice! I think I know what you mean about synaesthesia being a pose...
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... there's thinking about music in the romanticism way I do which many musicians do nowadays relating music to other senses, and there's synaesthesia which is subconscious which too many people confuse with the former or pose as. And if art cant be mystical and non-materialistic, then whats the point in it? Sorry for the length of my little essay!!!
CROMPZ65 2 years ago
'simply' the inability of the brain to properly filter stimuli? if you're going that way, you may as well say that the whole of human consciousness is just electrical signals and neuronal connections. i mean, you're leaving out the whole depth of human experience...
and mysticism is ingrained in music, as in all art. beauty is something that transcends scientific interpretation.
leaq 2 years ago 2
One of the best recordings of this sonata. If not the best. No questions.
hhryundell 4 years ago
Richter vs. Horowitz: A higher truth, though only dimly hinted at, thrills us more than a lower expressed (Thoreau)
suzettegm 4 years ago
Just perfect!!
optimusito 4 years ago
i've really come to be unable to listen to any other pianist play Prokofiev, i just can't. Does anyone else have the same issue?
beethoven4ever 4 years ago
Try Frederic Chiu. The most creative and intellectual playing of the Prok Sonata's I've heard. But Richter sure is special, no doubt.
Other than sonatas, Demidenko's PC No. 2 is absolutely phenomenal, epoch shifting.
crowdmaker 4 years ago
I do, but try to listen to Edsone Elias here on Youtube, a great surprise, and Severin van Eckardstein does a creditable job, heard him once life in Amsterdam playing Prokofievs 6th
pianosonata.
suzettegm 4 years ago
Does anyone know a good complete and authoritative collection of Richter playing prokofiev?
I did not really find anything on Amazon, just single CDs.
lopper12345 4 years ago
There is no such a collection. You have to pick bits and pieces.
mltube 4 years ago
The first time i heard this, my cousin was learning this, and I don't know why, but i got teary. It was just so beautiful hearing something like this.
dapunkof1975 4 years ago
uhrkraft: If you look at the big picture (Richter's 900 composition repertoire including Bach) you will realize that Richter was Glen Goulds daddy.
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Excellent piece, I found free sheet music for it on SheetMusicFox DOT com and absolutely love it!
pianoparadise 4 years ago
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Excellent piece, I found free sheet music for it on SheetMusicFox DOT com and absolutely love it!
pianoparadise 4 years ago
Why don't you bastard go f*ck yourself and shove your free sheet music up your stinking fat arse!
jannokas85 4 years ago 2
richter could not play bach as well?????
huch???
poor people.
when i was very young gould was so fasinating for me with bach, as i get older i learned to understand richters bach.
by the way, gould was a fan of richter
and i all my life i will hear them both with bach
like richter said, is important to keep clean
germaniwan 4 years ago
Richter was a huge fan of Gould to they both played very well leave it at that.
uhrkraft 4 years ago
I agree. Neither Richter's nor Glenn Gould's recording of the well tempered clavier should be missing in a good collection of classical music. They are different but both absolutely beautiful.
lopper12345 4 years ago
macromera: your knowledge of music and Richter is supercillious. Miss Argerich knows she is a mushroom huddling beneath a great oak. Ask her, she will be first to admit it. Somewhere in Richter's 900 hundred piece repertoire you wil find a bit of "linear/pianissimo."
RealRussiansOnly 4 years ago
i'v heard all the big boys play from Horowitz, Gould, Gilels, Arrau, Serkin,Ashkanazi, Cliburn, Kissin, Evo,Rubinstien, etc., etc. Combined, they do not = half a Richter! After Sviatoslav (the blessed Slav) their remains only redundancy. They all know it too-ask!
RealRussiansOnly 4 years ago
Sorry, 'blessed Slav' is really good ...Richter touchée is too tense and his interpretaion is so linear.... where is the pianissimos?, Miss Argerich is still the best ...
macromera 4 years ago
He is great but you are in denial. Everyone has their own interesting aspects. To dismiss those great performers is fucking stupid and you know it!!!!!
uhrkraft 4 years ago
Well spoken. There is such a gap between him and the rest that they truly all do not equal half a richter and please all stop with Horowitz ridiculous. America made him out to be this big hot shot pianist. He should not even be in the same sentence or paragraph as Richter.....
mrnicetunes 4 years ago
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the difference between richter and horowitz: richter is a pianist, horowitz is a musician...
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
Sure, and I'm Napoleon
suzettegm 4 years ago
I believe you!
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
Oh well thanks for humoring me. But if you insist on liking Richter less than Horowitz, why not take your post anywhere but here under this Prokofiev vid? Not that I would agree but at least I would understand it better.
suzettegm 4 years ago
does that mean your short and have small hands or just a repost to the previous
nedlert 3 years ago
haha, the last, though I do have small hands:)
suzettegm 3 years ago
and what do you base your statement on?
mrnicetunes 4 years ago
It is as he wants to avoid the "human touch", that what make's us human... emotions... fire... If I hear him, I cannot help it, I do not hear a man who is busy trying to make music, only playing note's and now and then some difference between forte and piano, no rubato, no lyrical moments...
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
If you dont understand richter's interpretations you should just say that you don get it. Richter was a genius, with more faculties than horowitz, and richter was the best pianist of the century, and you wont change it.
optimusito 4 years ago
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richter was the best pianist of the century???? wich century, and I asume a century before christ...
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
You didnt know it? Richter was. You need to read more.
optimusito 4 years ago 3
dumbass...
uhrkraft 4 years ago
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He had more technique then horowitz it think, but he was no musician, in fact he was a very very bad musician. Most of the time he played only the note's and tried to avoid emotion...
iwantmusicplease 4 years ago
Whilst I cannot speak for everything Richter played... I can say that I do agree that this recording is... just rather average.
demonicadvent 4 years ago
This recording is much less average...than your comment.
suzettegm 4 years ago
Don't really know, very often, however, Prokofiev that is not played by Richter is downoright inadequate.
I can for sure point out Suggestion Diabolique - NO PERFORMER, and that really means no performer, even got close to Ricther's rendition. He stands out like a rock star, miles ahead of everybody else. No wonder there's people defining him as the best pianist ever...
Cornour 3 years ago 2
I'm trying to avoid some sad emotions...right now, reading your comment...
suzettegm 4 years ago 4
That's your crappy view...
uhrkraft 4 years ago
mine?
suzettegm 4 years ago
no... sorry
uhrkraft 4 years ago
marcelmombeekeigen: Both were great pianists and musicians. As for width of repertoire Richter was unsurpassed...
Both MUSICIANS greatly and genuinely respected each other. You should learn from both meanwhile...
vica112 4 years ago
The 2nd and the 6th are my favorite Prokofiev sonatas (both of which I've played). But only Richter can play them as Prokofiev intended.
morevodka 4 years ago
how about the third? I find that as my...favorite of prokofiev sonatas. The 6th one is amazing, but the third one takes the prize for me.
achilless 4 years ago
The piano is not quite A440. Some of the notes are a bit off.
OnGuardForPeace 4 years ago
could the recording device possibly have something to do with that?
daaamirsutra 4 years ago
OnGuardForPeace: oftentimes actual pitch is modified by recording equipment, digitalization filters and even playback equipment. Richter's piano could easily have been tuned precisely to A440 and kept to it through his actual performance. If you played this YouTube file on your computer audio setup and tested it with a digital tuner, there is a strong chance A440 was lost somewhere along the way! :)
BrucknerMotet 4 years ago
i love this piece and richter plays it brilliantly
imawsome13 4 years ago
this sonata is 4 parts. the second part which is the scherzo and goes from 6:50s to 8:35s of this video is very hard and no one played it like Richter. i bought a cd and i got very disappointed.
ibclappin 4 years ago
any way i could get this on a cd somehow?
ibclappin 4 years ago
The best!
donchevmeister 4 years ago
superbe!!!
devikunti 4 years ago
Truly sublime, better than sex.
aesthetic1950 5 years ago
Something you've never had...
uhrkraft 4 years ago
ouch
georgecziffra 4 years ago
well...
uhrkraft 4 years ago
This sonata inspires me every time I hear it. It is so genious!! Richter does an excellent job. He is also quite inspiring. I know I will refer to his recordings someday when I play this piece if I ever do.
vocalpianist 5 years ago