Richter plays funeral march from Beethoven's sonata no. 12

[apuland]

thats why Richter was prefering play in dark!

[emu2000]

It's probably just the desync, but it looks as if he doesn't even play it. His gestures look so counterintuitive, as if you were just mad at the piano :)

Anyway, well played. Emotional but without that crowd pleasing facial expression people apparently need to make in order to make the stupid layman think they enjoy the music.

[thedptvshow]

love it!

[Aqlor]

Has anyone found this particular part played on piano by anyone else online? I would love to see it played too , this is just fabulous

[crissfyb]

whered you get the video?

[marynnaGAGA]

great!!!

[tsokokos]

sex........

[gonoreatryper1986]

@tsokokos ???

[bolawarrior]

Hahaha, almost 80 pct of comments react on others not the video.

and when they are flamed by others they start talking real difficult english like theyre smart then :P

Amazing piano playing by richter!

[Rubuntu61]

Listen to Richter's interpretation on Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto...beyond mere virtuosity

[lamusicahera]

FANTASTIC!

[jalleki12]

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

[aryanpianist]

He was just a Pianist ! Thank you Richter ...

[teddy12543]

OK, crucify me, but........ I've always found Richter too fast and matter-of-fact. No poetry. No personality. What's the point of playing everything in a blur of speed? It's like a computer.

I've tried to like him, I really have, but I get bored every time I listen.

[gerryrains]

teddy12543,

Try listening to his performance of the Schumann piano concerto in A minor, the version posted by truecrypt. That might do it for you:)

[teddy12543]

Thx, I did listen, and it's lovely.

[hansmeyer111]

Dear teddy12543, you know that there are millions of people out there, which are swearing in the name of Richter...

For me, and for many many others he is the best musician since records exist.

Of course I'm not saying you are wrong about it. I'd say: Try to understand why there are so many people believing in his music...

sorry for my english

[teddy12543]

No question he's a tremendous virtuoso, and I do definitely like some things. But much of it is steely hard, loud, fast. I find other pianists more interesting, more musical, more colored.

[oxiigen]

You should listen what Glenn Gould said about Sviatoslav Richter. I know you talking about YOUR taste, but come on, this talk about more musical, more colored, ... pianists is... doh, tasteless for many of us, sorry.

[teddy12543]

Well, yes, I am talking about MY taste, as are you and as was Glenn Gould, who by the way isn't exactly the standard bearer for received opinion, disdaining as he did Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, and having very little time for Mozart or Schubert.

[hansmeyer111]

To teddy12543:

Ok, I understand you. But, maybe I'm wrong, I don't think that RIchter is so popular because of his virtuosity! There are hundred of virtuoso out there! For the most people RIchter's music is like a 3-D picture. It's like a hypnotising procedure, you hear him and you forget who you are, where are you right now and what time it is. Really.

There is the video with the G major Sonata of Schubert.

See it.

[Nosy1993]

I guess you DID get crucified, teddy.

[davidgray2]

That's because you yourself are unsophisticated and boring. Richter always said he required a certain focus and understanding from his audience, which you so clearly lack.

[soami2u]

Thanks for this brief glimpse of two true geniuses--Beethoven, and Richter!!

[kajohada]

amazing played!

[givemetime123]

Excellent , un peu court...

[humbertsin1994]

Funeral music is designed to mourn. Also, it is supposed to give life. To give a new life and hope. After hearing funeral music, you should feel re-energized and most of all, at ease.

[sam0xin]

All the time, MASTER's Piano sounds to me just like orchestra ! even WTC of BACH. And He's just seems condacting - rather playing. GENIUS,GENIUS,GENIUS...

[hansmeyer111]

At the first time I swear, I heard cymbals at 0:30

[sam0xin]

Yes my friend hansmeyer111!RICHTER is only THE MASTER, who makes not just orchestral sound-effects,but moods, characters as well as questions & answers..! so MASTERLY...it's just seems You're "watching opera"..So Theatrical & sexy !What about his range of genres..?? oooh...!RICHTER is GENIUS.

Thanks for respond !

[hansmeyer111]

I learned to know the music of Richter about 10 years ago..

The first 2 years I was fascinated, but I didn´t know why, and then suddenly I begann to "see" his music.

He is the theater, the oper,the regisseur, the singers, the orchester, the conductor, the make-up supervisor, he is the illuminator, the choreograph, he is actually EVERYTHING, when I hear him I see the production of dozen of people on a stage, and he do that only with a

piano. Words are incapable to describe this phenomenon.

[hansmeyer111]

I mean he does. Sorry about my english

[opeeum69]

this sounds more like a celebration

well i guess of the dead guy's life then...

funeral?! my ass lol

[mrn93]

it totally sounds like a dirge, plus funeral music can be celebratory as well as mournful

[farleigh17]

well it depends on who died.

[iambananananananana]

you obviously know nothing of funeral music. before you write a stupid comment like this, educate yourself first ok?

[mrn93]

Why don't you broaden you horizons a bit. The European Christian funerary tradition is not the only funerary tradition. E.g. the Black church in America has a celebration of the deceased life with, CELEBRATORY music. You are an example of the problem with the world of classical music, a seeming incapability to recognize any tradition other than our own. However, you are right in that L.v.B., or any other classical composer for that matter, would never have written celebratory funeral music.

[iambananananananana]

when i meant funeral music, i meant in classical sense ONLY. this is a video on classical music, and i obviously i wasnt saying i dont recognize other traditions. so stop ur useless rant and go away.

[margaxavier]

actually the complete name is Marcia Funebre sulla morte d'un Eroe...so beethoven also wrote moments of that heros celebration when alive

[laqin007]

So Go celebrate your ass then!

just wait for that moment, dont make fun of this alright?

Funeral is not that kinda thing, Richter knows it, u dont need to tell about it

your ass? when u die u mofo, ur ass gonna bussed up and u will celebrate your own funeral soab

[hansmeyer111]

You missunderstand the meening of funeral music

[sam0xin]

Are You replaying to me ? about misunderstanding ?

[hansmeyer111]

No! I´m responding to the fool comment of opeeum69, but I did something wrong and my response got here!

[sam0xin]

No,I'm !sorry for that.And You are so right

....I'll tell You by "secret" many people-musicians know that VERY WELL,but they prefer to not talk about HIM....You know why..!! it is same story of 'MOZART and Salieri' Very simple ! humans... cheep envoy.And my suggestion do not even reply to any negative comment..better just to listen 1 extra performance of MASTER-RICHTER..instead of that useless spending of Your valuable time.I'm shocked ! You are Great analyzer!Thanks.

[sam0xin]

1 more thing about Your English.For not to be Englishman(or woman) You are doing GREAT & mine is not perfect too.But I totally understand You.Are You Russian? If so ..I speak perfect Russian !Enjoy RICHTER's ART as more as possible it's PURE+POSITIVE ENERGY,it's like invisible cure for all kinds of stresses of our reality...THANKS again.

[sam0xin]

opeeum69 you're in WRONG PAGE !look for more simple things to watch: sort of bougy bougy-chachacha, or closer to your number ..."69" and more closer to your last one...with lol!to be able criticize this kind of Cosmic - level theme you have to reborn at least 100 times(... I'm not sure it helps anyway.).

[alceste66]

Beethoven ne sarebbe fiero.

[woodyaan]

Richter is N1 pianist in ALL TIME and for ALL composers.

[seahyimin]

agreed!

[SteveKane33399]

@woodyaan I would have to disagree. Can you only imagine hearing Beethoven play his own pieces?

[volodya2]

i want the complete videoooooooooooooooo!

[wmd10]

Richter, a true pianist.

[dr3Am3r73]

indeed, tremendous conviction, one of the most expressive performances I've ever seen...

[kph2105]

Thank you Richter!

[Alfencequinty]

where can i get a longer version of this?

[mathpianist93]

No doubt that this is dramatic and powerful, but it is a tad too loud.

[suzettegm]

turn the sound lower :)

[Ally123234]

@suzettegm higher :)

[PrinzLikky]

i love him

[vnsn72]

The miracle by Neuahus great teacher!!

[suzettegm]

tremendous conviction.

[chad410]

thanks what a great master musician he is.I d say he was a musician first then a pianist and that is complimentt