What recording did you use? As a producer, and through his record label TNC, Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley has released a series of CDs containing rare recordings of Ukraine born pianist Sviatoslav Richter and of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the latter earning him a Grammy Award. Is your recording from those ones?
you guys are stupid. in russian it's rachmaninov'. with a soft sign. so you pronounce it "off". and rachmaninoff chose "rachmaninoff" as his spelling when he latinized his name. read a fucking biography or somethin before you act like you know
i dont like this at all, it seems to me very harsh, too fast. how can u rush through the part with the church bells (D# major chords)? and no intonation of the theme, just rigorous intervall playing. sounds like a craftsman playing rachmaninoff. this shocked me so much, because usually richter comes up with a beautiful and deep interpretation of nearly every piece he plays.
Horowitz or Weissenberg are masters - quoted. How many Jewish names are there of all pianists so far? If you name a Jewish pianist, speak about Gilels, as he is far superior than american Jewish pianists.
@MrDebilizm Рихтер был на половину немец, даже какое-то время жил в Германии. Но говорил на немецком с русским акцентом и большую часть жизни конечно жил в России/СССР. Но я считаю немцами или русскими тех, кто не просто имеет те или иные корни, но родился и вырос в соответствующей стране, потому, что это самое главное. В Америке полно различных национальностей, там и немцы и французы, шотландцы и т.д., но они все в первую очередь американцы. Так и тут.
But I know a couple of really stunning molecules...
1. Bernard Roberts on Nimbus with the slow movement of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata.
2. Richter on Regis with Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau Op. 33 No. 6 - about a minute and a half of elemental pianism - trust me, very close to the experience of hearing him live.
Lipatti didn't record much, so Richter is clearly the all-time champion. I sat on the stage at his 1967 London recital and have never experienced anything like his playing before or since. My list above is just a cheap attempt to classify three basic types of piano-music fan. There are some amazing moderns from Russia, but those three oldies can deliver. I could add Solomon to my list, but he didn't record much either.
If that makes me a moron, I can assure you I'm an experienced one...
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Horowitz USED to force us to listen. NOW he forces us to turn him OFF. Everyone needs time to make certain realizations, that is, if they are open to admitting they are wrong. Those who are closed to suggestion will never learn, they will never grow and they will never live.
Can you just imagine horowitz playing this beautifully and flawlessly? What a joke. And Richter's blows horrowitz out of the water with that Chopin Etude op10/no4. horrowitz could NEVER do that or even close.
Horowtiz.. enslaved the music to speak for his own ego and in order to do that he alienated it. His fans and recordings are still here to plague us...
Of course I agree. Let's be fair, though - at this late date - horrowitz does do some things quite well, but his playing is consistently inconsistent. He grossifies the beautiful, he pounds the subtle. And he played pieces that his technique simply does not work for. And he LOOKS dissatisfied half the time. Kissin looks enraptured ALL the time - taken away by the music. And obviously, Maestro Richter is a phenomenon and a true exemplar of virtue and musicianship. And his technique is flawless.
horowitz had an amazingly sensitive ear, and his colorful playing was indeed quite unique and beautiful. however, this caused bad technical habits, and i agree richter's interpretations had more depth.
"Beautiful" is only a matter of opinion I'm afraid. Horowitz always changed something in anything he played. He came from the era where the performer's needs were more important than that of the composer.
In plain and simple terms.. he distorted the natural beauty and meaning of music for his own personal gain.
But it's different when it comes to Rachminanoff as he actually liked it how V.H interpreted [his] music, but this is not necessarily relevant to other composers from other era's.
Richter's playing was simply beautiful in every respect. Since the first day I heard him play I've always loved it.
HELP !! All Richter Fans in the World: 5 Years ago i bought a CD with Richter but i lost it. On the C CD was: Fly of the Bummble, a schubert sonata, a rachmaninov piano konzert. and some other short piano works from different composers.
On the Cover was Richter coming out a big lake. The Cover was full of water and Richter stands in the middle. The Cd must be from Erato or Sony. I would buy it again. Does anybody know the title of this CD. Thanks a lot to all Piano friends in the world
I think that the "whose version is better" is not easily applied here. I believe Horowitz' ostinato is more colorful and nuanced but Richter's intensity in this piece is awe-ispiring.
I think if the recording quality was equal to that of Horowitz' the whose version is better talk would be quieted.
well really its rachmaninov because his name in cyrillic is Рахманинов and the B at the end is a V in english. like my last name in english ends with ff but it should be v.
yeaaa back then. every imigrant from Russia whould get "off" or "eff" at the end of their lastname. that's how Americans wanted to distinguish Russians from other europeans
I believe this was the piece he played more then any other in concert; wouldn't think so from the way he makes it so special. Richter was a glorious pianist.
...but i must say that richters personality and the titanic way playing the most difficult works as it was so easy indeed an enigma,an i was shaken[sic!]by the soundwaves on every concert i visited.his debussy,liszt,prokofieff and even brahms is exemplary. ;)
Ok, we have really nothing to talk about. But realize, that many of "yundis" were studying in Poland. You can disagree with me, I understand that. Saying, that Polish are the worst playing of Chopin is... argh, you see only yourself, my talking to you is pointless.
Well, just (not to convince you in any way) to complete my idea:
I wouldn´t reccomend nobody now to go to learn a good Chopin in Polonia. But at least in Varsavia and Crackovia conservatories, you can finde sometimes some good teachers.
BUt i never would reccomend nobody to go to learn piano in Germany , becuase not only they play the worst Bach on earth, but the german pianistic school is not really good, and specially is based in play as boring as possible.
------->Polish (specially in these days) are too much pretentious concerning the "Know how" of Chopin. The first example: The lasts winners of Chopin competitions are not a Polish, AND WORST the winners are a kind of pretty shit pianists. Take Yundi Li as an example. SO WHERE ARE THE POLISH ESPECIALISTS?.
HAHA HAHA LOL.
Is teh same who happen with BAch interpretation. Are not worst Bach players than the Germans in thses days.
Sorry, but if you do not find anything in music of Paderewski - we have nothing to talk about. Chopin - French? That is misunderstanding of his music. Every note was support by polish folk music. But I understand you - only polish man could grasp this truth.
He-he. Richter played Chopin beautifully. And by the way, he is not THAT far from Polish people genetically and spiritually.
As to the the three 6-s, if you say it's only z666's grade ;-)... But amazing that people with sever sxual problems fixed on perverted sex talk hate Richter and other great musicians.
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Francorussie y listen already tons of Chopin played by Richter.
Is not his music. He just doesn´t understand it, as many Russians. I don´t know why ? are few Russians pianist who play a superb Chopin. From the Polands is worst. Just of course Rubinstein and in not that big dimension Malckuzinscky and Zimmermann. That´s all.
"From Poland is worst." - are you sure what did you said?
Firstly, I think polish man knows Chopin's history and Chopin's style the best in the world. Why? Because Chopin was a polish man, not french, not japanese and not russian! And really - the history of polish pianism is better than everywhere in the world. Do you want examples? Just only check this surnames: Paderewski, Hofmann, Friedman, (Rubstein and Zimerman, Malucuzynski), Harasiewcz, Blechacz etc. Oh man, you are really wrong..
Horowitz finds more nostalgia and melancholy in this piece. Richter is never spontaneous but he does keep the musics line and everything is under tight control. Not my favourite Rachmaninoff player.
(First: pardon my english) Richter is in my opinion simply the best. His analytical approach adds to the emotional experience for intelligent people, as I see it. Romantic music does particularly not need an over-emotional interpretation. A piece of music is allways greater than the composer, and Richter plays Rach. better than Rach. does himself, I think.
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For all those who would like to hear the musically expressive Richter...go to Truecrypt at youtube...because this is easily one of his worst performances.Poor Rachmaninoff
Duh. Truecrypt kicks you out when you say something about Richter that doesn't please him...Like this performance or not...it's one of his "typical" ones imho.Great build-up.
(1) What it calls my attention about guys like ShmitS's comments is that he tries hard to encourage all of us to use our sensibility in order to convert a bunch of signs in something far away different than the meaning itself of those signs called music. On one hand I believe that most of us have enough sensibility, I don't think that we as an audience here "metronomizes" the music first in order to decode it and then "feel" it properly according to ShmitS's guidance.
(2) All of us have our own personal way of felling the music. It is totally subjective. On the other hand, this particular look of ShmitS "The D'Artagnan look", makes me believe that he is truly possessed by this kind of "romantic saver of poverty", in this case: our poverty of souls, mediocre, distorted, narrow, and primitive minds who given our ignorance and lack of sensibility are not capable to distinguish between what is worth or not when feeling the music through certain interpreter.
(3) He tries to brake, in his own belief and selfish conception, the musical rules if there exist at some point about listening and playing certain work but he gets caught in the same way. He is trapped in his own way of thinking, converting the subjectivity of music into a logical thought, his logical thought, and reconverted back again to his own convenience and therefore to his subjective form.
(4) The final result is that we have a new music redeemer, a soul saver who is going to take us out from the darkness and to teach us how we must conceive music in a proper way. It's a contradiction. His conception is based on a false premise. If there is a person who metronomizes the music is him but won't accept it because of his paranoid and grappled mind. If the term metronome means "speed per se", then the artifact would be designed just from the middle to the top of it.
Friedrich darling, I can just cut through the prolix swamp of your argument, but there's no such thing as a "grappled mind". Either way thank you for the textbook entry.
You bet, no problem. I think the best idea is to forget about figures of speech and just watch Richter over and over and over! That's my kinda solution.
(5) Music is subjective, that's the best understood concept in a person with the minimum level of intelligence though what I've noticed that ShmitS and many others do here, is to listen over and over again a musician -- paradoxically hated by all of them- who felt the music deep in his heart, deep in his soul and expressed with passion, love, humble and honesty. If we can be sure of something is that Richter was an authentic and genuine musician whether you like him or not.
(6) There is no doubt that he was a sensible and superb human being and Shmits or anyone else will not take it out from him definitely. ShmitS is just lonely person who tries to call attention by this means. He is just trying to hide away his fears, his mediocrity and his loneliness making us believe that he is an intellectual gifted person.
Someone here described his page perfectly: "The house of terror". That resumes the truly essence of a loser.
For me, this is the Magnitogorsk School of pianism. Richter's playing gets under the skin and makes it crawl. This is like a Halloween shriek. My verdict:
Oh, you run a travel agency or what? Send me some documentation please? Look, I don't care what you say about this rendition, just leave the great dictators out of it, is that too much to ask?
A little worse, as Smith seems to take some pity lately on us war-torn Europeans, moreover he wouldn't wish me to hell to dwell there with Stalin, but yes,those dictator arguments make me angry, remind me too much of Marcel van Dam c.s.
An excellent performance, as usual. After he has walked off the stage, though, a sad incident occurs - he has it off with a cat -yes, a beautiful, innocent miaow-miaow! How could he do such a terrible thing?!
he is indeed a great pianist, but in my opinion, he sometimes falls victim to his own virtuosity. Coupled with his own inner fire, he lets it out unrestrained and thus lets his soul sing louder the compositions that he is responsible for interpreting and not just playing.
What kind of legacy are you going to leave in this world about music, what are your credentials, are you a composer, where have you performed before: in Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Center, Paris, Sidney,? Nop. You are another simple mortal who has a disttorsioned and hatre critics to someone who CLEARLY influenced positivly millions of people in music.
A truly loser with Saliery's Sindrome. Yes indeed.
Smithsherman has the key to understand the essential, the basics and theaching us how to love and fell the music.
Millions of people around the world, a whole generation and next generations like us, the most accreditable art and music critics, all of us are wrong.
Richter was a true heroe, still is and will be for many, many years. Nobody will care or remember you or even your obtuse comments when you pass away Mr. Shmitsherman.
Вы правы, ребята, насчёт smithshermana: этот болван уже более чем пол года не может найти себе лучшего занятия, чем жрать дерьмо! Пусть наестся как следует, ему это явно не вредит. Если человек глуп, так это надолго =)
wow, thats some clear thinking- what a wonder you haven't said that before, also, is there some specific note you think could be improved? Please elaborate, that would be great!
What kind of legacy are you going to leave in this world about music, what are your credentials, are you a composer, where have you performed before: in Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Center, Paris, Sidney,? Nop. You are another simple mortal who has a disttorsioned and hatre critics to someone who CLEARLY influenced positivly millions of people in music.
A truly loser with Saliery's Sindrome. Yes indeed.
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smithsherman; What the hell are you babbling about? You do not need prayer & understanding. You need exorcism or a frontal lobotomy. I have a rusty screwdriver and some Richter' fans that have volunteered to perform this operation early in 2008. We are looking for a strait jacket! Please donate.
Smithsherman has the key to understand the essential, the basics and theaching us how to love and fell the music.
Millions of people around the world, a whole generation and next generations like us, the most accreditable art and music critics, all of us are wrong.
Richter was a true heroe, still is and will be for many, many years. Nobody will care or remember you or even your obtuse comments when you pass away Mr. Shmitsherman.
Dear Nietsche, Of all that U list...with the exception of Horowitz...all R different apples from the same modern revisionist,masculinely objectivist,musically absolutest inexpressive tree.Therefore your taste is as such.....Richter simply is "better" at all that than the others.
Ridhter is such a good AUTHORITARIAN ABSOLUTEST...that it inclines 1 2 vomit.
boy, what constructive criticisms you have- truly when will give your honest analysis, measure-by-measure, of this performance? That would be truly great!
This is not about a masculine or fememine issue. (With all my respect, I presume that you must have suffered as a boy precisly a military childhood)
This is about the connection between you and the performer. That includes not only his/her way of playing but the his/her personality and life as well.
Therefore, I love: Brendel, Jorg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Solomon, Alexander Brailovsky, Lipatti, Vasary, Eileen Joyce, Argerich, De La Rocha, Conchita Renard, Angelica Morales, and many many others.
Nothing to see with masculinity as you can notice.
But above all of them there's NOBODY LIKE Richter and Horowitz to me, nor for most of people around the world.
shmithsherman is one of those guys who thinks that a "toccata" has to be played like a "ballade", a "prelude" like an "adagio", a chopin "etude" like a "romanza" with full rubato and romantiscism forgetting the main intention of it, and so on, in order to "fell" the music.
I'd like to see him, playing Bartok, Prokofiev, and many others, and make the audiences to cry, because according to his point of view all music belongs to the romantic period.
Why on earth do the people who post on these sites waste so much time and so many words commenting on trolls? People like smithsherman have one goal only--to cause as much turmoil as possible and see their name in print as often as possible. The rest of you come to sites like this for the magnificent performances that have been posted and you end up spending your time commenting on the troll at the site. IGNOR HIM. He's a child. He'll go away.
nietzschemasterclass: you are correct in your profound analysis of our demented friend Smithsherman. What is troubling is the total disrespect and animosity generated by what I suspect is a spiritually disfunctional human being. We can only pity and express our dismay at this juncture in his life. Richter must not be dishonored.
I only would add, if you allow me, that Smithsherman and company (bunch of losers), should go somewhere else. They are no longer invited here. Best regards.
The Red Army of the keyboard!!
Bluetooth6483 3 months ago
P is Russian for R that what i've learned today
SSvolksgrenadier 3 months ago
@SSvolksgrenadier its actually more like
ottovebokko 2 months ago
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@ottovebokko its actually more like P = rrrr...
ottovebokko 2 months ago
A lot of thanks.His performance was magic.
What recording did you use? As a producer, and through his record label TNC, Ukrainian-American composer Virko Baley has released a series of CDs containing rare recordings of Ukraine born pianist Sviatoslav Richter and of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the latter earning him a Grammy Award. Is your recording from those ones?
halynamyroslava 4 months ago
Lovely playiing.TY g for posting.
paulostroff99 4 months ago
1:57 ouch...
titusbeertsen 5 months ago
The best Rachmaninov!
Renard8214 7 months ago
LOL you guys watch something like this then debate the spelling of Rach's name? hardly does him justice...
SirDeimosKnightoMars 8 months ago 3
He was known as "Rachmaninoff" when he lived in the United States. That was on his passport and his gravestone (Google it!)
ggn1234 9 months ago
@ggn1234 -My family were originally Ostrovsky and later shortened and changed to Ostroff.The Polish spelling would have been to Ostrovski.
paulostroff99 4 months ago
you guys are stupid. in russian it's rachmaninov'. with a soft sign. so you pronounce it "off". and rachmaninoff chose "rachmaninoff" as his spelling when he latinized his name. read a fucking biography or somethin before you act like you know
vittorioaja 11 months ago
@vittorioaja what do you even mean by "soft sign"?
MaximPodolsky 5 months ago
Too fast!!!!! it screws it up!!
lyes28 1 year ago
@lyes28 Can you hear the voices speaking? Hear it once again...
marmasiotis 1 year ago
i dont like this at all, it seems to me very harsh, too fast. how can u rush through the part with the church bells (D# major chords)? and no intonation of the theme, just rigorous intervall playing. sounds like a craftsman playing rachmaninoff. this shocked me so much, because usually richter comes up with a beautiful and deep interpretation of nearly every piece he plays.
xxDressedInBlackxx 1 year ago
Horowitz or Weissenberg are masters - quoted. How many Jewish names are there of all pianists so far? If you name a Jewish pianist, speak about Gilels, as he is far superior than american Jewish pianists.
muscomap 1 year ago
@muscomap
Who cares ? Jewish or not jewish, they'es great pianists, that's all.
chapichapo00 1 year ago
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@muscomap
Who cares ? Jewish or not jewish, they'es great pianists, that's all.
chapichapo00 1 year ago
0:03 Yes, it is old Trotskers.
brunchingbrachiosaur 1 year ago
Я не националистка, ИМЕННО немцы владеют ключом к музыке .
Но Башмет верно сказал, что у русских есть уникальная черта - они хотят докопаться до глубинного смысла в музыке, их интересует СУЩНОСТЬ , ИДЕЯ .
tzeleustremlennost 2 years ago 3
@tzeleustremlennost
Извините, но я не понял кто тут немец Рихтер или Рахманинов?
MrDebilizm 1 year ago
@MrDebilizm Рихтер был на половину немец, даже какое-то время жил в Германии. Но говорил на немецком с русским акцентом и большую часть жизни конечно жил в России/СССР. Но я считаю немцами или русскими тех, кто не просто имеет те или иные корни, но родился и вырос в соответствующей стране, потому, что это самое главное. В Америке полно различных национальностей, там и немцы и французы, шотландцы и т.д., но они все в первую очередь американцы. Так и тут.
MaximPodolsky 1 year ago
why is trostky on the first row??
martimtavares 2 years ago 4
Гений 20 века.
ensoniq57 2 years ago 3
Только 20 века?
takhirviolinest 2 years ago 2
By the way, this video is far from Richter at his best.
His sound recordings of Schumann, Debussy, Liszt and Rachmaninoff show much more what he was capable of than this wretched pirate.
wardropper 2 years ago
As far as I am concerned, no music listened to through a recording does the musician even a molecule of justice.
Webarton 2 years ago
That's pretty much true.
But I know a couple of really stunning molecules...
1. Bernard Roberts on Nimbus with the slow movement of Beethoven's "Hammerklavier" Sonata.
2. Richter on Regis with Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau Op. 33 No. 6 - about a minute and a half of elemental pianism - trust me, very close to the experience of hearing him live.
wardropper 2 years ago
@Webarton
Not even a molecule? That means rather nothing. Why are you on youtube then? ;-)
silverbud 1 year ago
Horowitz if you want a brilliant magician with an ego.
Richter if you want a serious musician with ego, fireworks and unbelievable technical polish.
Lipatti if you want an angel who could do all of that, but dedicated his ego to music.
wardropper 2 years ago
Moron.
Webarton 2 years ago
Lipatti didn't record much, so Richter is clearly the all-time champion. I sat on the stage at his 1967 London recital and have never experienced anything like his playing before or since. My list above is just a cheap attempt to classify three basic types of piano-music fan. There are some amazing moderns from Russia, but those three oldies can deliver. I could add Solomon to my list, but he didn't record much either.
If that makes me a moron, I can assure you I'm an experienced one...
wardropper 2 years ago 2
Greatest classical pianist of the 20th century, brilliant
darkmaides 2 years ago 6
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Richter makes Horowitz seem like a joke.
This master lets you feel the music and become one with it.
Horowitz just forces you to listen. I believe he was a phony.
advisorC101 2 years ago
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Horowitz USED to force us to listen. NOW he forces us to turn him OFF. Everyone needs time to make certain realizations, that is, if they are open to admitting they are wrong. Those who are closed to suggestion will never learn, they will never grow and they will never live.
Can you just imagine horowitz playing this beautifully and flawlessly? What a joke. And Richter's blows horrowitz out of the water with that Chopin Etude op10/no4. horrowitz could NEVER do that or even close.
organman52 2 years ago
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advisorC101 2 years ago
Richter lets the music speak for itself..
Horowtiz.. enslaved the music to speak for his own ego and in order to do that he alienated it. His fans and recordings are still here to plague us...
advisorC101 2 years ago
Of course I agree. Let's be fair, though - at this late date - horrowitz does do some things quite well, but his playing is consistently inconsistent. He grossifies the beautiful, he pounds the subtle. And he played pieces that his technique simply does not work for. And he LOOKS dissatisfied half the time. Kissin looks enraptured ALL the time - taken away by the music. And obviously, Maestro Richter is a phenomenon and a true exemplar of virtue and musicianship. And his technique is flawless.
organman52 2 years ago 2
So what if Horowitz has a few strong points? It does not excuse his sloppy attitude towards true musicianship.
Dinu Lipatti is also a wonderful musician.
advisorC101 2 years ago
You're absolutely right. There IS no excuse for such distorted playing.
Ah just LISTEN to this [Richter] youtube! Talk about knowing the deep meaning of every note!
organman52 2 years ago
Everything about Richter's playing is just sublime, but naturally all of the Horowitz zealots would crucify us for thinking such a thing.
advisorC101 2 years ago
horowitz had an amazingly sensitive ear, and his colorful playing was indeed quite unique and beautiful. however, this caused bad technical habits, and i agree richter's interpretations had more depth.
onxtcz 2 years ago 6
"Beautiful" is only a matter of opinion I'm afraid. Horowitz always changed something in anything he played. He came from the era where the performer's needs were more important than that of the composer.
In plain and simple terms.. he distorted the natural beauty and meaning of music for his own personal gain.
advisorC101 2 years ago
But it's different when it comes to Rachminanoff as he actually liked it how V.H interpreted [his] music, but this is not necessarily relevant to other composers from other era's.
Richter's playing was simply beautiful in every respect. Since the first day I heard him play I've always loved it.
advisorC101 2 years ago
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advisorC101 2 years ago
Check out Weissenberg's version of this piece. Quite amazing.
Traditionally I do like Richter in almost every piece he plays, but this one seems a bit forced. Horowitz or Weissenberg are masters of this work.
luke1841 2 years ago
Wow, this guy has a future in piano.
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HELP !! All Richter Fans in the World: 5 Years ago i bought a CD with Richter but i lost it. On the C CD was: Fly of the Bummble, a schubert sonata, a rachmaninov piano konzert. and some other short piano works from different composers.
On the Cover was Richter coming out a big lake. The Cover was full of water and Richter stands in the middle. The Cd must be from Erato or Sony. I would buy it again. Does anybody know the title of this CD. Thanks a lot to all Piano friends in the world
jalleki12 2 years ago
he makes a virtuoso - piece out of this prelude, which it is certainly not. me too, i prefer horowitz
lorenzarthur91 2 years ago
I think that the "whose version is better" is not easily applied here. I believe Horowitz' ostinato is more colorful and nuanced but Richter's intensity in this piece is awe-ispiring.
I think if the recording quality was equal to that of Horowitz' the whose version is better talk would be quieted.
EuphoricDan 2 years ago
Both this recording and Horowitz have mistakes.
CarlViola 2 years ago
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At the end, he leaves the concerto to suck the dick of Horowitz...
ahuachapan2 2 years ago
amazing
MvdM2 2 years ago
Nice, but I like Horowitz' rendition better. He played it slower which made it more nuanced and emotional. And it's just plain more musical.
vizion24 2 years ago
¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡wow!!!!!!!!!!!!
plaussible 2 years ago 3
this so great...
sayspokartz 2 years ago
Richter Rachs!
TheVandella 2 years ago 31
grande richter!"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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i think it's spelled Rachmaninov
JoJoKenn94 3 years ago
It's spelled Рахманинов, there's no correct English spelling since it's not in English... What he had in his passport was Rachmaninoff I believe.
Shumeshi 2 years ago 13
It's Rachmaninoff on its passport indeed, but Rachmaninoff himself prefered Rachmaninov.
Forgot where I read it, I'm sorry...
MathijsGiltjes1993 2 years ago
well really its rachmaninov because his name in cyrillic is Рахманинов and the B at the end is a V in english. like my last name in english ends with ff but it should be v.
ginocretino 2 years ago
I'm sorry, forget my last comment! It's the other way around... It is Rachmaninov, but Rach prefered Rachmaninoff.
I found a Dutch internetsite where you can read it, but I think it's useless to you xD
MathijsGiltjes1993 2 years ago
@Shumeshi He changed the ending of his name to OFF, because the Americans had difficulty pronouncing it properly.
ann03071874 1 year ago
@Shumeshi i think there is.Рахманинов = Rachmaninov :)
Skenderbej 1 year ago
@Shumeshi
in russian it has a soft sign.... so it's pronounced off. rachmaninoff chose this spelling himself when he latinized his name
vittorioaja 11 months ago
@Shumeshi
yeaaa back then. every imigrant from Russia whould get "off" or "eff" at the end of their lastname. that's how Americans wanted to distinguish Russians from other europeans
EjenAmy 3 months ago
@Shumeshi If anyone is in doubt, there is a picture of his grave on Wikipedia. They spelled his name in latin letters: Rachmaninoff.
pbryld 1 month ago
Bravo!!!!
ZicoMon 3 years ago 3
does anyone know what film stock this is?
mdoub 3 years ago
where was this concert?
koopa002 3 years ago
Soviet Union(Russia) - Great Hall of the Moscow conservatory:)))
chigsrOck 2 years ago
Sviatoslav Richter обеспечивает в Россию величину своей души.
AnnaHelenaKarenina 3 years ago
qué?
tanditomonon 3 years ago
was that translated using google?:)
Shumeshi 2 years ago
Exactly Plusherino , totally agreed with you.Finally someone who understand the same thing as me .
Krestzek 3 years ago
I 'm going to play that iece and I 'm so anxious when I see so many glorious pianists playing it like this!
IzabellaCullen 3 years ago
Vetchnaya pamyat!
MarkPetrovich 3 years ago
I believe this was the piece he played more then any other in concert; wouldn't think so from the way he makes it so special. Richter was a glorious pianist.
rabengeraun 3 years ago 6
The best Rachmaninoff ever is that, played by Richter. Nobody understand better this music by Richter himself.
Richter WAS the greatest pianist ever lived on this earth.
Plusherino 3 years ago 7
i totally agree with you regarding first affirmation
Richter understands perfectly Rachmaninov, BEST EVER TO PLAY RACHMANINOV
i can enumerate 10 pianist who are better than him overall ( playing all composers not only rachmaninov)
braileanul 3 years ago
Combien triste est ce thème....
antoinezygfryd 3 years ago
hehehehe---->huhhhh!!
...but i must say that richters personality and the titanic way playing the most difficult works as it was so easy indeed an enigma,an i was shaken[sic!]by the soundwaves on every concert i visited.his debussy,liszt,prokofieff and even brahms is exemplary. ;)
kajohada 3 years ago
Ok, we have really nothing to talk about. But realize, that many of "yundis" were studying in Poland. You can disagree with me, I understand that. Saying, that Polish are the worst playing of Chopin is... argh, you see only yourself, my talking to you is pointless.
mziel53 3 years ago
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Completely true mziel.
Well, just (not to convince you in any way) to complete my idea:
I wouldn´t reccomend nobody now to go to learn a good Chopin in Polonia. But at least in Varsavia and Crackovia conservatories, you can finde sometimes some good teachers.
BUt i never would reccomend nobody to go to learn piano in Germany , becuase not only they play the worst Bach on earth, but the german pianistic school is not really good, and specially is based in play as boring as possible.
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z666z666z 3 years ago
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------->Polish (specially in these days) are too much pretentious concerning the "Know how" of Chopin. The first example: The lasts winners of Chopin competitions are not a Polish, AND WORST the winners are a kind of pretty shit pianists. Take Yundi Li as an example. SO WHERE ARE THE POLISH ESPECIALISTS?.
HAHA HAHA LOL.
Is teh same who happen with BAch interpretation. Are not worst Bach players than the Germans in thses days.
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z666z666z 3 years ago
Sorry, but if you do not find anything in music of Paderewski - we have nothing to talk about. Chopin - French? That is misunderstanding of his music. Every note was support by polish folk music. But I understand you - only polish man could grasp this truth.
mziel53 3 years ago
He-he. Richter played Chopin beautifully. And by the way, he is not THAT far from Polish people genetically and spiritually.
As to the the three 6-s, if you say it's only z666's grade ;-)... But amazing that people with sever sxual problems fixed on perverted sex talk hate Richter and other great musicians.
francorussie 3 years ago
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The Commenter says,"Preludio,Sol diese minore"
should be..."Arpeggio,Goal-tease motore"
smithsherman 3 years ago
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Rachmaninoff is the right music for Richter. Liszt too. Chopin.......forget about....
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z666z666z 3 years ago
People. Listen to Richter playing Chopin. For instance, "Richter plays Chopin" etudes here on yt.
I's amazing beauty.
P.S. Ha! the three "6" is the symbol for Satan.
francorussie 3 years ago
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Francorussie y listen already tons of Chopin played by Richter.
Is not his music. He just doesn´t understand it, as many Russians. I don´t know why ? are few Russians pianist who play a superb Chopin. From the Polands is worst. Just of course Rubinstein and in not that big dimension Malckuzinscky and Zimmermann. That´s all.
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z666z666z 3 years ago
"From Poland is worst." - are you sure what did you said?
Firstly, I think polish man knows Chopin's history and Chopin's style the best in the world. Why? Because Chopin was a polish man, not french, not japanese and not russian! And really - the history of polish pianism is better than everywhere in the world. Do you want examples? Just only check this surnames: Paderewski, Hofmann, Friedman, (Rubstein and Zimerman, Malucuzynski), Harasiewcz, Blechacz etc. Oh man, you are really wrong..
mziel53 3 years ago 3
Don't pay attention, this a mentally and (sorry to say that) psycho-sexually disturbed troll on YT. He & his Co use different aliases. Cheers
francorussie 3 years ago
No dear franco, triple 6 is not the symbol of satan, it's the average of the content of his comments, and that's a cortesy, regards.
nietzschemasterclass 3 years ago
yes! :-) and Richter, Svyatoslav Theofilovich, is about human spirit
boldly and yet kindly prevailing
in this unkind world. Hey people to all of his good recordings you will see (hear) why so many were (are) envy him
francorussie 3 years ago
This piece is about human spirit
boldly and yet kindly prevailing
in this unkind world.
magaloff1 3 years ago
This piece is about human spirit
boldly and yet kindly prevailing
in this unkind world.
magaloff1 3 years ago
Horowitz finds more nostalgia and melancholy in this piece. Richter is never spontaneous but he does keep the musics line and everything is under tight control. Not my favourite Rachmaninoff player.
piano345 3 years ago
astonishing
skobichevskii 4 years ago
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(First: pardon my english) Richter is in my opinion simply the best. His analytical approach adds to the emotional experience for intelligent people, as I see it. Romantic music does particularly not need an over-emotional interpretation. A piece of music is allways greater than the composer, and Richter plays Rach. better than Rach. does himself, I think.
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sam0xin 4 years ago
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For all those who would like to hear the musically expressive Richter...go to Truecrypt at youtube...because this is easily one of his worst performances.Poor Rachmaninoff
smithsherman 4 years ago
Duh. Truecrypt kicks you out when you say something about Richter that doesn't please him...Like this performance or not...it's one of his "typical" ones imho.Great build-up.
suzettegm 4 years ago
To all music lovers:
(1) What it calls my attention about guys like ShmitS's comments is that he tries hard to encourage all of us to use our sensibility in order to convert a bunch of signs in something far away different than the meaning itself of those signs called music. On one hand I believe that most of us have enough sensibility, I don't think that we as an audience here "metronomizes" the music first in order to decode it and then "feel" it properly according to ShmitS's guidance.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
(2) All of us have our own personal way of felling the music. It is totally subjective. On the other hand, this particular look of ShmitS "The D'Artagnan look", makes me believe that he is truly possessed by this kind of "romantic saver of poverty", in this case: our poverty of souls, mediocre, distorted, narrow, and primitive minds who given our ignorance and lack of sensibility are not capable to distinguish between what is worth or not when feeling the music through certain interpreter.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
(3) He tries to brake, in his own belief and selfish conception, the musical rules if there exist at some point about listening and playing certain work but he gets caught in the same way. He is trapped in his own way of thinking, converting the subjectivity of music into a logical thought, his logical thought, and reconverted back again to his own convenience and therefore to his subjective form.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago 4
(4) The final result is that we have a new music redeemer, a soul saver who is going to take us out from the darkness and to teach us how we must conceive music in a proper way. It's a contradiction. His conception is based on a false premise. If there is a person who metronomizes the music is him but won't accept it because of his paranoid and grappled mind. If the term metronome means "speed per se", then the artifact would be designed just from the middle to the top of it.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
Friedrich darling, I can just cut through the prolix swamp of your argument, but there's no such thing as a "grappled mind". Either way thank you for the textbook entry.
Brianjonestown 3 years ago
Is it fine if I use the term "grasped mind" instead? Important thing is that you've got my point here... I appreciated it, thanks.
nietzschemasterclass 3 years ago
You bet, no problem. I think the best idea is to forget about figures of speech and just watch Richter over and over and over! That's my kinda solution.
Brianjonestown 3 years ago
(5) Music is subjective, that's the best understood concept in a person with the minimum level of intelligence though what I've noticed that ShmitS and many others do here, is to listen over and over again a musician -- paradoxically hated by all of them- who felt the music deep in his heart, deep in his soul and expressed with passion, love, humble and honesty. If we can be sure of something is that Richter was an authentic and genuine musician whether you like him or not.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago 2
(6) There is no doubt that he was a sensible and superb human being and Shmits or anyone else will not take it out from him definitely. ShmitS is just lonely person who tries to call attention by this means. He is just trying to hide away his fears, his mediocrity and his loneliness making us believe that he is an intellectual gifted person.
Someone here described his page perfectly: "The house of terror". That resumes the truly essence of a loser.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago 3
God forbid an artist is "driven"
suzettegm 4 years ago 3
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Or God forbid...if he never stops driving mechanically...like here.Poetry is roadpizza here.
smithsherman 4 years ago
Richter's interpretation of Rachmaninoff is amazing!
warmperson2007 4 years ago 2
For me, this is the Magnitogorsk School of pianism. Richter's playing gets under the skin and makes it crawl. This is like a Halloween shriek. My verdict:
Stalin Prize, First Class
stacysucksviacom 4 years ago
Nononono, you're too modest, First Stalin Price goes to your comment, it sucks!
suzettegm 4 years ago 6
Go straight to hell, you tramp.
stacysucksviacom 4 years ago
Oh, you run a travel agency or what? Send me some documentation please? Look, I don't care what you say about this rendition, just leave the great dictators out of it, is that too much to ask?
suzettegm 4 years ago 3
She must be related to Smithy...
pianopera 4 years ago 3
A little worse, as Smith seems to take some pity lately on us war-torn Europeans, moreover he wouldn't wish me to hell to dwell there with Stalin, but yes,those dictator arguments make me angry, remind me too much of Marcel van Dam c.s.
suzettegm 4 years ago 3
You mean...Marcel Mombekeigen?
smithsherman 4 years ago
Stacy...You're hysterical!
smithsherman 4 years ago
i admire
the confidence
of his first attack!
I think he had a good day :)
EricEtheric 4 years ago
He plays Chopin Beautifully,but not this.
smithsherman 4 years ago
hello, Sha110w (sha10m rav(en craw))
search: Richter Chopin!!! then
if you ain't no maSSochist ;)
((as certain as we know
how good this man is,
do you know how he MUST
Certainly fail at A n y T h i n g else
than... let's say... Chopin!))
"Ich bin der Geist der stets verneint" (Mephisto/Faust) -Göthe
U R 1 Re-tard (i.e. U've miSSt Ur e-X-it)
MnEmonicist 4 years ago
I agree smithsherman. far too driven, and too hard in terms of sound quality.
HeifetzBeatsOistrakh 4 years ago
An excellent performance, as usual. After he has walked off the stage, though, a sad incident occurs - he has it off with a cat -yes, a beautiful, innocent miaow-miaow! How could he do such a terrible thing?!
toyoboeIII 4 years ago
i suppose i am seeing that i am a 6 ft.3 well-endowed black man. But, how did you guess? Perhaps you are psychic?
bassodivo 4 years ago
he is indeed a great pianist, but in my opinion, he sometimes falls victim to his own virtuosity. Coupled with his own inner fire, he lets it out unrestrained and thus lets his soul sing louder the compositions that he is responsible for interpreting and not just playing.
bassodivo 4 years ago
voland60, that's a good one :D
pjkorab 4 years ago 3
2.- still to shmitsherman:
What kind of legacy are you going to leave in this world about music, what are your credentials, are you a composer, where have you performed before: in Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Center, Paris, Sidney,? Nop. You are another simple mortal who has a disttorsioned and hatre critics to someone who CLEARLY influenced positivly millions of people in music.
A truly loser with Saliery's Sindrome. Yes indeed.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago 2
1.- Voila!
Smithsherman has the key to understand the essential, the basics and theaching us how to love and fell the music.
Millions of people around the world, a whole generation and next generations like us, the most accreditable art and music critics, all of us are wrong.
Richter was a true heroe, still is and will be for many, many years. Nobody will care or remember you or even your obtuse comments when you pass away Mr. Shmitsherman.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago 3
Вы правы, ребята, насчёт smithshermana: этот болван уже более чем пол года не может найти себе лучшего занятия, чем жрать дерьмо! Пусть наестся как следует, ему это явно не вредит. Если человек глуп, так это надолго =)
voland60 4 years ago 3
eto cmeshnoi zakaz u tebya. mulludets!
toyoboeIII 4 years ago
Personally I prefer Emil Gilels and Lazar Berman to this wooden virtyozo.And please leave anybody's tecticles alone.
Anexepa 4 years ago
Your personal preferences are quite respectable.
Your arrogant comment - "wooden virtyozo" (virtuoso) - probably belongs to your only friend on YT.
Get some maturity and a thesaurus, otherwise there is little interest in what you're saying.
truecrypt 4 years ago
Smithsherman; Lets get the new year going! Why does a dog lick its testicles? Because it can!
Why does SS sherman post stupid comments? Because he can't lick his dog's tecticles!
RealRussiansOnly 4 years ago 2
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Ценю настоящее искусство,не механическое бреньчание вашего псевдо кумира.Вы и беситесь
потом что с вашими совком мозгами не отличить
чувств от виртуозного но механическового исполнения.
smithsherman 4 years ago
Ну, кого ты ценишь, мудила долбанный, хорошо видно в твоих favorites.
По поводу мозгов - ты точно пришибленный. Учи русский язык, нацист недобитый!
Ты вроде русскуя
nemchinovich 4 years ago
русскую литературу знаешь... так там специально для тебя Чехов писал:
"Хоть ты Иванов Седьмой, а дурак!"
nemchinovich 4 years ago 3
wow, thats some clear thinking- what a wonder you haven't said that before, also, is there some specific note you think could be improved? Please elaborate, that would be great!
yarzacc 4 years ago
2.- still to shmitsherman:
What kind of legacy are you going to leave in this world about music, what are your credentials, are you a composer, where have you performed before: in Carnegie Hall, Rockefeller Center, Paris, Sidney,? Nop. You are another simple mortal who has a disttorsioned and hatre critics to someone who CLEARLY influenced positivly millions of people in music.
A truly loser with Saliery's Sindrome. Yes indeed.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
NKVD officer RealRussians has returned to defend the mechanical church of Richter-Leninism. ....AND LIKE A GOOD LITTLE NKVD OFFICER...
HE IS LOOKING TO SEDATE ME FOR NON-CONFORMITY
...BEFORE EXECUTING ME. It won't change the typewriting here.
smithsherman 4 years ago
Schizophrenia is a psychotic disorder (or a group of disorders) marked by severely impaired thinking, emotions, and behaviors. Schizophrenic patients are typically unable to filter sensory stimuli and may have enhanced perceptions of sounds, colors, and other features of their environment. Most schizophrenics, if untreated, gradually withdraw from interactions with other people, and lose their ability to take care of personal needs and grooming.
truecrypt 4 years ago 3
smithsherman; What the hell are you babbling about? You do not need prayer & understanding. You need exorcism or a frontal lobotomy. I have a rusty screwdriver and some Richter' fans that have volunteered to perform this operation early in 2008. We are looking for a strait jacket! Please donate.
RealRussiansOnly 4 years ago
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Рихтер играеть толко с намётками на эмоций
похожиме на недонощенные выкидышы......
smithsherman 4 years ago
Ошибаешься! Рихтер играет гениально!
А вот ты точно - жертва грязного аборта!
nemchinovich 4 years ago
YT community should know its "heroes".
Here is the translation of smithsherman's "masterpiece":
Richter produces only hint of emotions which look like premature miscarriaged embrios.
My reply is: Richter is genius and the only victim of criminal abortion here is smithsherman himself.
It's time to ban this moron!
nemchinovich 4 years ago 3
1.- Voila!
Smithsherman has the key to understand the essential, the basics and theaching us how to love and fell the music.
Millions of people around the world, a whole generation and next generations like us, the most accreditable art and music critics, all of us are wrong.
Richter was a true heroe, still is and will be for many, many years. Nobody will care or remember you or even your obtuse comments when you pass away Mr. Shmitsherman.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
Dear Nietsche, Of all that U list...with the exception of Horowitz...all R different apples from the same modern revisionist,masculinely objectivist,musically absolutest inexpressive tree.Therefore your taste is as such.....Richter simply is "better" at all that than the others.
Ridhter is such a good AUTHORITARIAN ABSOLUTEST...that it inclines 1 2 vomit.
smithsherman 4 years ago
boy, what constructive criticisms you have- truly when will give your honest analysis, measure-by-measure, of this performance? That would be truly great!
yarzacc 4 years ago
Again...Nietsche is rolling out his Horst Wessel lied and Ein Volk,Ein Reich,Ein Führer
sloganry and sentiment for music.His world is a world where only the pitiless masculine hero
triumphing over all in his objective greatness
is worshipped.
smithsherman 4 years ago
You are wrong again Mr. smithsherman.
This is not about a masculine or fememine issue. (With all my respect, I presume that you must have suffered as a boy precisly a military childhood)
This is about the connection between you and the performer. That includes not only his/her way of playing but the his/her personality and life as well.
More to come...
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
Therefore, I love: Brendel, Jorg Demus, Paul Badura-Skoda, Solomon, Alexander Brailovsky, Lipatti, Vasary, Eileen Joyce, Argerich, De La Rocha, Conchita Renard, Angelica Morales, and many many others.
Nothing to see with masculinity as you can notice.
But above all of them there's NOBODY LIKE Richter and Horowitz to me, nor for most of people around the world.
You are wrong again my friend.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
shmithsherman is one of those guys who thinks that a "toccata" has to be played like a "ballade", a "prelude" like an "adagio", a chopin "etude" like a "romanza" with full rubato and romantiscism forgetting the main intention of it, and so on, in order to "fell" the music.
I'd like to see him, playing Bartok, Prokofiev, and many others, and make the audiences to cry, because according to his point of view all music belongs to the romantic period.
Pathetic.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago
Why on earth do the people who post on these sites waste so much time and so many words commenting on trolls? People like smithsherman have one goal only--to cause as much turmoil as possible and see their name in print as often as possible. The rest of you come to sites like this for the magnificent performances that have been posted and you end up spending your time commenting on the troll at the site. IGNOR HIM. He's a child. He'll go away.
Without1Feather 4 years ago
195 is wrong! There are plenty of metronomes in the west who can play like this.
I wish that it were true that only the east was infected with anti-expressive mechanical-itus.
smithsherman 4 years ago
if you could give a measure by measure analysis of this piece, that would be great
yarzacc 4 years ago
Please tell me, who of the alive pianists can play like Richter.
nosferatusvampire 4 years ago
Who can paint like Rembrandt? ;)
I'm sure you'll find right answer after listening more recordings and live performances.
truecrypt 4 years ago
I rather like it, it seems strong and tender at the same time with a nice build-up.
suzettegm 4 years ago
Nobody in the "west" can't play like this????
195DUB 4 years ago
nietzschemasterclass: you are correct in your profound analysis of our demented friend Smithsherman. What is troubling is the total disrespect and animosity generated by what I suspect is a spiritually disfunctional human being. We can only pity and express our dismay at this juncture in his life. Richter must not be dishonored.
RealRussiansOnly 4 years ago
Realrussians, thanks for your comment.
I only would add, if you allow me, that Smithsherman and company (bunch of losers), should go somewhere else. They are no longer invited here. Best regards.
nietzschemasterclass 4 years ago