Rachmaninoff: Polichinelle, op. 3, no. 4

[Rachman1337]

Not a hard piece to get the notes but hard to make sound nice.

[kpopfan009]

brb trying to find my jaw...

[fernandovagopianista]

Richter was a tremendous pianist! What unbelievable sonority!

[pistachio1987]

I like the interpretation it is almost a little demonic! I love it! I shall be playing this soon - I don't know how well though.... We shall see!

[hellosummer16]

@pistachio1987 good luck! Me too:)

[kingjepoy]

i didn't care much for this piece until i heard this interpretation. wow!

[lessthanthreekatt]

;) I can play this, but I want the finger accuracy for the intro, my middle section of arpeggios is fine ;) and so is everything else

[jeffjeff2955]

this dude plays like he practiced it for 10 years playing 100 times a day. maybe he did. my mom would make me do that if she heard this piece and wanted me to play it. *sigh* how i envy him

[44wsgs]

only 1 tiny mistake

[WilsonAu1]

@44wsgs wat mistake?

[FullMapleAlchemist]

@44wsgs this is a LIVE performance of COURSE there will be tiny mistakes. CD recordings are 'perfect' because they can re-record it over and over again

[9000apm]

i wish more people played this song

[volldegineorigional]

@9000apm give me a couple more weeks... i doubt i'll ever be as good as richter though lol

[44wsgs]

wow, absolutely amazing! Richter plays it the best out of everyone (except Rachmaninoff!) :)

i love this piece.

[DruggedChicken]

great!

[blaze3927]

Thanks for scaring the shit out of me Richter, its not THAT fast xD

[pianosa1993]

haha I love how into it he gets that his chair comes off the ground at 3:32 :D

[demosj]

This piece feels like Rossini in certain places. Very peculiar composition for Rachmaninoff.

[achilless]

Polichinelle means "clown" in french....soo humor is..needed in this piece :)

[rebeccaastrid]

I like it :)

I live to listen Rachmaninhoff :X:X

And he plays very-very good :X;)

love it

(and I am a pianist, so belive me )

bye.

[Jayhawksfn]

Man why so fast

[pianomaster272]

I was told that this is about a man beating his wife..is that correct info?

[Matthewfawr]

polichinelle apparently does mean to punch, but no it isn't about a man beating his wife, Rachmaninov wasn't like that.

[TheWanderingNight]

@pianomaster272

Punch from "Punch and Judy" (a puppet show, I take it, that was rather popular in Europe back then) was a character notable for his arrogant boasts and wife-beating. He was used more for playful effect than to propagate downright misogyny, and there was no such thing as political correctness back then.

[Likeafoxow]

he takes it so fast! very beautiful, and so what if it doesnt sound like rachmaninoff, it's still exciting and well played

[kasyapa]

never thought i'd see s.r. play this. interesting take!

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

@kasyapa me neither... there seems to be an unlimited supply of hidden Richter videos. I'm happy that he did not care so much about people recording his concerts =)

[kasyapa]

ReturnOfTheStienway - i noticed a lot of open taping while i watched horowitz in "leningrad" in 1986. seems it was permitted?

[entropyable]

one day I want to be this amazing.

[RandomPenguinAttack]

I love this piece!!! I tried learning it a couple years ago, but I didn't have the hands for it yet. It's the summer; I'm so learning it!

[doi1776]

Dude... at the very begining it goes from sfff to ppp immediately... of course there's supposed to be massive contrasts.

[berlinzerberus]

the great virtuoso of rachmaninoff,very amazing.richter was one of the greatest interpreter of his works,waves of music and sound,really tremendous.

[JimmyXXL]

Birds fly, fish swim, and haters hate.

[mimuellts]

you dont know Richter at all

[konzolmester]

I dont hate him. For example I like most of his beethoven piano sonata interpretions. At least listen how rachmaninoff plays his Polichinelle,he composed the piece you know. Yes there are original recordings of Rachmaninoff. Im not curious about Richter, Im curious about the composed piece,he is just interpreting wrong,or in his own way.

[wayneredhart]

@konzolmester He didn't 'interpret' at all. That's the problem. He just bashed the notes out without a hint of charm or humour.

[DruggedChicken]

@konzolmester :facepalm:

If you heard the interpretation of Rachmaninoff himself, you would be saying this

[samsonno]

Wonderful, the one and only!