I first heard of Ravel from reading The New York Review of Books this week, and I feel like I've missed out on one of the Twentieth Century's greatest composers.
Off-topic, but you should really check out the New York Review. That magazine rocks! :)
@coldplayasian It consists of a magical an simple melody which needs to be heard above anything, the problem is the complexity of everything else. The piece is extremely unconfortable as it contains very large chords, and there are parts were both hands come together in such a way that they tangle up. Listen to the 5:40 mark , your right plays the melody, while your left plays complex arpeggios and the problem comes with the constant notes in the middle when both of your hands are taken.
Responder a este vídeo... btw....Richter is soo good because he can make it sound so simple, and lets you listen to the melody without letting the accompaniment take on a major role.
Voilà, je l'ai travaillé en m'inspirant du maitre Richter...marquant encore plus les sensibles. pédale harmonique bien sûr...hésitation à peine perceptible...
Would you people quit focussing on the coughing? Right now there are over 300 comments about the coughing! Would you just lay off and listen to the beatiful piece that's being played and give Richer the praise he deserves instead of complaining about the freaking coughing? Grow some balls and deal with it, because it isn't going away.
Ya the other thing people forget is there are thousands of people sitting in a concert hall, a fair percentage are going to make some noise occasionally. The reason modern concert recordings sound better is not because there are fewer people coughing, but simply because recording technology and technique has improved.
Ok, I couldn't stop laughing while listening to this incredibly beautiful performance of Ravel's Pavane while reading the bickering comments about the coughing, and listening to the coughing at the same time!-- Nevertheless Richter is amazing and it has inspired me to give it a whirl at the piano. Of course nothing like Richter but we can only try! Thanks for posting this great performance.
You guys may be complaining now, but you don't know how annoying it is to be in the actual audience :P. I went to a piano performance once, and everyone around me made so much noise. They were massaging their hands, sighing, pulling out mints??? I mean, seriously? Does your breath really need to be freshened in the middle of a piece??
Richter probably WAS playing in a hospital...but I find nothing wrong with that. I play in nursing homes and hospitals all the time. The people love it, and for that split second, that moment that the beauty washes over them, they seem healed. Music truly is the medicine of the soul.
Well, if you want to hear some really noisy music, listen to some of Satie's more controversial works. One of them literally involves a kitchen stove and a tea pot whistling in the background, and some other weird stuff. It caused a greater riot than Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Of course, it's faded into obscurity now, but it still remains pretty revolutionary in terms of how our collective conception and organization of sounds has really warped since. Strange...
I read somewhere that Ravel used a leaver of sorts to produce a synthetic coughing sound when he was performing it. It was meant to emphasize the idea that the aristocrat was on the verge of death. He wrote the piece in the memory of the Princess of Polignac. I don't know much about it, all I know is that the coughs are annoying as hell. But this is the impressionism era; people were starting to incorporate noises into music, until it eventually all became noise (e.g. John Cage - 4:33).
Meraviglioso... se non ci fossero quegli ....... che potrebbero starsene a casa a fare suffumigi invece di tossire e cercar fiato mentre un artista interpreta
Meraviglioso... se non ci fossero quei...... che potrebbero restarsene a casa a fare suffumigi invece di tossire e cercar fiato mentre un artista interpreta
Beautiful, he plays this piece just the way I imagine it should sound! It sucks I can't quite reach the bigger chords in the middle part, so I have to change some of the notes lol
This is one of the best recordings of this piece. I was dismayed by the coughing and blamed my fellow Americans, as I think we are a nation of boors. The coughing is unfortunate, but it was a little boorish of me to play the blame game. I hardly think it was deliberate, so I should have kept quiet on the matter.
what's amazing is how beautifully richter performs the piece in spite of it taking place in a sanatorium. if this had been keith jarrett performing the piece would have lasted apprx 15 seconds.
Such a poor guy, who admired Richter so much, though got coughing problems, still saved his money by not going to a doctor so he could have enough money to buy a ticket of Richter's concert.
@Storykilladude All this discussion about the coughing has been both funny and silly, but insulting people because they are coughing is pretty ridiculous. First of all the volume of the coughing probably has a lot to do with the fact that microphones were not as directional as they are today. Beyond that, anyone who has been to a concert knows that the air in a lot of concert halls is pretty dry which can be an irritant to a lot of people. And I would LOVE to see you hold in a cough smartass.>.>
@tonyngjichun you have no idea how many snobbish assholes would tell you that it's "common courtesy" to stay home if you're coughing, even if you saved up and bought your tickets months in advance. i agree with you wholeheartedly.
Concentration is the key factor beyond trivial coughing. I'm glad Richter can concentrate. His glorious touch and line is immaculate. John-Hans Melcher
PS you too can concentrate and listen beyond the coughing....but it takes practice.
Despite the coughing, this is still the best version on Youtube. Only Richter truly makes me shed tears. I think this is the perfect tempo for this piano arrangement. A sensible mix of sadness, melancholy and fragile hope. My favorite on Youtube along with "Jeux d'eau" also composed by Ravel and also interpreted by Richter.
There does not worry the cough of the public... His music is so intense that it is the only thing that matters for me indeed...beautiful interpretation... Richter was in his own world... He was not listening to the cough of the people... It was too far... Painting the beauty...
@marcohorowitz8 one must process exquisite taste to choose to play something like this in the hospital. i think the song finally finished off the cough guy.
@tonygumbrell22 Do you have any idea how many symphonies, operas, and ballet companies there are in the United States? As an American and a cellist and a regular devotee of classical recordings on youtube, I have to respectfully disagree. Sure, there is much to be ashamed of in American culture (American Idol, Brittany Spears, Justin Bieber, etc.), but to characterize all Americans as Philistines because you only see our ignorant, uncouth people on television is unfair.
I once attended a concert given by a German pianist of great standing. It was the depths of winter and lots of people had colds. He was playing that wonderful G flat Moment Musical by Schubert. In the middle however he shouted at his noisy audience. Dead silence did ensue but the tension created by his outburst ruined the evening for me. I would never have attended another concert by this man if someone had paid me. I should add that it was not Richter who was playing.
I once attended a concert given by a German pianist of great standing. It was the depths of winter and lots of people had colds. He was playing that wonderful G flat Moment Musical by Schubert. In the middle however he shouted at his noisy audience. Dead silence did ensue but the tension created by his outburst ruined the evening for me. I would never have attended another concert by this man if someone had paid me.
I think it's a lack of respect for any pianist who gives everything in every concert, having sick people around the concert hall. If icatched a cold I would stay at home instead of making annoying noises and make others get sick too.
It's sort of angering at the amount of hate going on in the comments towards the coughing. As someone else mentioned, this was recorded in Budapest, Hungary, in 1954. Half the people in the audience were probably dying from exposure, but of course you don't care because they're ruining your listening experience. Disgusting.
@grungzer yea cus when i listen to ravel i try to think of people in hungary 60 years ago dying from a cough. also if they were dying from exposure they shouldn't go out to concert. also fuck them they probably got everyone else there sick
@grungzer i love you man, you're like a time activist. the people's ghosts (cus most everyone in that recording is dead) will come back to thank you for your concern towards them, or to ask you for some vicks 44 cus they were screwing richters wonderful performance and they want to make it up to ravel fans and gaywads like you
@grungzer Why are you being so serious...? As you said, it WAS 1954, so there's nothing we can do about it now. I agree with not hating on them, but try to have a sense of humour...
@pearsewl I'm sorry, it's just a sensitive topic for me, so I got a bit worked up. I have a friend that was directly affected by what happened around that time, I've heard the stories. She had family that died there, so it's frustrating to see these comments. I apologize for my outburst though.
While there may be a hundred coughs in this rendition, there's just as many hate-filled comments about them. It's Budapest in the Eastern bloc, in the winter, 1954 - Sorry these people came out to the concert hall to have their spirits lifted and hearts warmed.
Did the princess die of a coughing fit? For fucks sake. SHUT UP!!!! Such a nice piece and pianist. Arrrggghhh I'm so mad a coughing for ruining this lovely work
Magnifique Richter. Merci truecrypt. Mais insupportables tous ces cathareux qui perturbent trop souvent les concerts, opéras, et donc le plaisir de ceux qui écoutent.
Qu'ils restent chez eux et toussent à volonté devant une vidéo.
Actually, the coughs are carefully placed signals which create synergetic message packets that carry across the bleak Moscow concert hall, from furry hat to furry hat. The occasional cough is in fact emitted by a determined member of the KGB attempting to disrupt the flow of information. But WE know how it all ended, don't we? (And RAVEL= Russian Analytical Vortex Elucidation Logistics).
I tried to count the number of coughs but completely lost count after 1 minute. I think half the audience was on their deathbeds with a cold or flu. At most performances I have gone to recently I have seen cough drops given out for free in the lobby. It's annoying but the music is played so beautifully I am able to just tune the coughing and snuffling out because I am so captivated by the masterful playing of this beautiful score.
beautiful
seagoat790 1 hour ago
Somebody shoot that coughing bitch!
toddaillon 2 days ago
I can easily hear the counts within the bar. I think they should be vague, like the faded contours in an impressionistic painting.
keesvangulik127 1 month ago
jaime les soulier vert
timoshii123 1 month ago
ah i kind of thought that the coughing was meant to be recorded, its kind of distracting though ithink it makes the music even sadder.
CuAnge1 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Una de las mas bellas melodías clásicas en el maravilloso piano de Richter, que más se puede pedir ante tanta perfección
carlosgarcialeos 2 months ago
I really love his pavane. It sounds like fragile.
CylinderA 2 months ago
2:37. My goodness. Wow.
rachchen 2 months ago
I first heard of Ravel from reading The New York Review of Books this week, and I feel like I've missed out on one of the Twentieth Century's greatest composers.
Off-topic, but you should really check out the New York Review. That magazine rocks! :)
clflem02 3 months ago
@MrHersheyXOXO Search for "Michelangeli - Ravel Piano Concerto - [2] Adagio assai". YT messes up URLs.
horiac 4 months ago
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Great playing.Richter was without doubt one of the best ever.TY for posting.
paulostroff99 4 months ago
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paulostroff99 4 months ago
can someone please tell me the difficulty of this piece?
coldplayasian 4 months ago
@coldplayasian It consists of a magical an simple melody which needs to be heard above anything, the problem is the complexity of everything else. The piece is extremely unconfortable as it contains very large chords, and there are parts were both hands come together in such a way that they tangle up. Listen to the 5:40 mark , your right plays the melody, while your left plays complex arpeggios and the problem comes with the constant notes in the middle when both of your hands are taken.
barnesg91 4 months ago 3
Responder a este vídeo... btw....Richter is soo good because he can make it sound so simple, and lets you listen to the melody without letting the accompaniment take on a major role.
barnesg91 4 months ago
What is wrong with the audience? How many weird sounds can you make? Why can't people just sit still for bloody 7 minutes, and shut up.
bartje11 5 months ago
This is so beautiful, and Richter's playing transcends the coughing.
Kinda funny; anyone else notice how in the picture, it looks like his raised hand is playing a second keyboard, where the cover is reflecting?
joharper38501 6 months ago 15
@joharper38501 he must be playing a harpsichord in that photo ;-)
edkriege 2 months ago
bloody keep coughing people!!!
super annoying.
r085049 6 months ago
@Cocoa2442 I totally agree, and that's one more reason that makes me regret the damn coughing.....
minasgekos 6 months ago
Voilà, je l'ai travaillé en m'inspirant du maitre Richter...marquant encore plus les sensibles. pédale harmonique bien sûr...hésitation à peine perceptible...
DominoNews 6 months ago
The profound genius and artistry of this performance is ineffably sublime. I love how much I identify with this piece
Viruw 7 months ago
Would you people quit focussing on the coughing? Right now there are over 300 comments about the coughing! Would you just lay off and listen to the beatiful piece that's being played and give Richer the praise he deserves instead of complaining about the freaking coughing? Grow some balls and deal with it, because it isn't going away.
looney1023 7 months ago
*its not a song
tiguras 7 months ago
OMG did he perform this in a hospital or something? SO MANY COUGHING!!!!
DavePianist 7 months ago 2
Ya the other thing people forget is there are thousands of people sitting in a concert hall, a fair percentage are going to make some noise occasionally. The reason modern concert recordings sound better is not because there are fewer people coughing, but simply because recording technology and technique has improved.
Cancrizans 7 months ago
Fantastic playing from Richter. He was superb in Ravel -- his "Le Gibet" is also superlative.
ggn1234 8 months ago
Ok, I couldn't stop laughing while listening to this incredibly beautiful performance of Ravel's Pavane while reading the bickering comments about the coughing, and listening to the coughing at the same time!-- Nevertheless Richter is amazing and it has inspired me to give it a whirl at the piano. Of course nothing like Richter but we can only try! Thanks for posting this great performance.
88Ed1962 8 months ago
@88Ed1962
You guys may be complaining now, but you don't know how annoying it is to be in the actual audience :P. I went to a piano performance once, and everyone around me made so much noise. They were massaging their hands, sighing, pulling out mints??? I mean, seriously? Does your breath really need to be freshened in the middle of a piece??
keetner 8 months ago 2
Why is it that so many of Richter's live concerts seem to have coincided with flu epidemics?
billyguns2 8 months ago
the coughing is part of the program!
its supposed to add to the depressing mood, by symbolizing the dying princess
Likeafoxow 9 months ago 3
Every note and chord has an emotional expression to it. Amazing!!
LTRAINchen 9 months ago
Richter himself was producing the coughs.
hellboyreloaded 9 months ago
@hellboyreloaded you made me laugh :) (might not be true, but still its a funny thought!)
ionas82 8 months ago
@ionas82 it's true, he was producing it by pressing some kind of mechanism with his left elbow, it was produced to simbolyze the princess.
hellboyreloaded 8 months ago
I think the coughing just adds to this haunting piece.
It sounds ethereal; the beautiful melody above such a gloomy backdrop.
dameditatingpanda 9 months ago
such a haunting melody...
JazZebra 9 months ago
Richter probably WAS playing in a hospital...but I find nothing wrong with that. I play in nursing homes and hospitals all the time. The people love it, and for that split second, that moment that the beauty washes over them, they seem healed. Music truly is the medicine of the soul.
meiji274 9 months ago
@meiji274 beautiful said!
Kunsterfreut 8 months ago
Well, if you want to hear some really noisy music, listen to some of Satie's more controversial works. One of them literally involves a kitchen stove and a tea pot whistling in the background, and some other weird stuff. It caused a greater riot than Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. Of course, it's faded into obscurity now, but it still remains pretty revolutionary in terms of how our collective conception and organization of sounds has really warped since. Strange...
iHateAmericanCinema 9 months ago
I read somewhere that Ravel used a leaver of sorts to produce a synthetic coughing sound when he was performing it. It was meant to emphasize the idea that the aristocrat was on the verge of death. He wrote the piece in the memory of the Princess of Polignac. I don't know much about it, all I know is that the coughs are annoying as hell. But this is the impressionism era; people were starting to incorporate noises into music, until it eventually all became noise (e.g. John Cage - 4:33).
iHateAmericanCinema 9 months ago
Anyone else wanted to build a time machine and give that guy some lemsip max, lovely though. Gives you a feel for the time
xQsLxSpratty 9 months ago
i think the cough is part of the play.
ibm4 10 months ago
Meraviglioso... se non ci fossero quegli ....... che potrebbero starsene a casa a fare suffumigi invece di tossire e cercar fiato mentre un artista interpreta
cielocoperto 10 months ago
Meraviglioso... se non ci fossero quei...... che potrebbero restarsene a casa a fare suffumigi invece di tossire e cercar fiato mentre un artista interpreta
cielocoperto 10 months ago
Certainly the best concerto for coughs I have ever heard!
Recorded in Sanatorium Palace, the best acoustic theater.
Don't be crual, they are all deads now!
PALAQUER 10 months ago
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PALAQUER 10 months ago
The coughs are not that bad. Grow up!
nathanscottly 10 months ago
Richter's ability to bring out such stillness and grace amongst such a cacophony of whooping coughs makes his playing even more astonishing.
micheng1 10 months ago
Beautiful, he plays this piece just the way I imagine it should sound! It sucks I can't quite reach the bigger chords in the middle part, so I have to change some of the notes lol
JLYoko 10 months ago
wow! I adore Youtube for this
repelsteeltje12345 10 months ago
wow!
repelsteeltje12345 10 months ago
would a room full of people cough so much if they didn't know they weren't meant to cough? these people are seriously fucktards
houseman179 10 months ago
wow! 7 people was coughing while watching this perfect interpretation!
vietbaonv 10 months ago 4
@vietbaonv haha!
dbz9803 10 months ago
we'll never know who coughed like that but he let a trace of his existence on earth
DjAotaka 11 months ago
This is one of the best recordings of this piece. I was dismayed by the coughing and blamed my fellow Americans, as I think we are a nation of boors. The coughing is unfortunate, but it was a little boorish of me to play the blame game. I hardly think it was deliberate, so I should have kept quiet on the matter.
tonygumbrell22 11 months ago
i've never witnessed this piece played with such a motionless tranquillity like the stillness you get when the moon is out at night.. true performer
houseman179 11 months ago
what's amazing is how beautifully richter performs the piece in spite of it taking place in a sanatorium. if this had been keith jarrett performing the piece would have lasted apprx 15 seconds.
edkriege 11 months ago
she died of tuberculosis, this audience is all solidarity.
ramondt2 11 months ago 24
Coughning increases the depth of the sound and underlines the live character of this music.
dgaranin 11 months ago
It's called a live recording. Get over it.
rbradaigh 1 year ago
the coughing is INSANE I would've strangled that person
pianolinpet 1 year ago
wonderful prefomance.......Great music.
Zayooooooo 1 year ago
pavane for a dead audience member. :(
bvolsky 1 year ago 4
screw that cougher!
flugel07 1 year ago
@flugel07 i kinda like the coughing, adds to the mood
vtothegtotheatothen 1 year ago 5
it's simply wondeful
cvhdrd 1 year ago
j'aime bien sûr c'est joué avec tant d'âme mais je préfère cette pièce avec orchestre
mayou59500 1 year ago
l'interprétation par un orchestre est plus prenante et moins angoissante, ce qui n'enlève rien aux mérites du pianiste!
mayou59500 1 year ago
this is by far the best version of pavane on youtube- but its so hard to find !!?
sshhiivvuumm 1 year ago
LEAVE THE MAN TO COUGH
derek44344 1 year ago
Such a poor guy, who admired Richter so much, though got coughing problems, still saved his money by not going to a doctor so he could have enough money to buy a ticket of Richter's concert.
Forgive him!
tonyngjichun 1 year ago 108
@tonyngjichun its actually several people... :<
No matter how sick you can hold the cough in... Douchebags... way back in the 50's but still douchebags.
Storykilladude 9 months ago
@Storykilladude All this discussion about the coughing has been both funny and silly, but insulting people because they are coughing is pretty ridiculous. First of all the volume of the coughing probably has a lot to do with the fact that microphones were not as directional as they are today. Beyond that, anyone who has been to a concert knows that the air in a lot of concert halls is pretty dry which can be an irritant to a lot of people. And I would LOVE to see you hold in a cough smartass.>.>
Cancrizans 7 months ago
@Cancrizans Actually I can hold a cough without a problem. And i did. Laughter thou. A bit harder.
But yes i am a smartass... Good song ruined by a live audience. Prove me wrong.
Storykilladude 7 months ago
@tonyngjichun Ha! Good one.
rayclentchris 5 months ago
@tonyngjichun -Could really be the case.lol
paulostroff99 4 months ago
@tonyngjichun you have no idea how many snobbish assholes would tell you that it's "common courtesy" to stay home if you're coughing, even if you saved up and bought your tickets months in advance. i agree with you wholeheartedly.
fledgehog 3 months ago
Reminiscent of Ravel Piano Concerto in G. Very similar melody.
MrOftenBach 1 year ago
@MrOftenBach Michelangeli does it like a God! youtube.com/watch?v=ftJ-gJ-l5HQ
horiac 4 months ago
Concentration is the key factor beyond trivial coughing. I'm glad Richter can concentrate. His glorious touch and line is immaculate. John-Hans Melcher
PS you too can concentrate and listen beyond the coughing....but it takes practice.
johnnyzing 1 year ago 4
after like 4 minuted the coughing got really annoying.
frenchylexi 1 year ago
What an amazing performance!
peopleinsorrow 1 year ago
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One of the most beautiful classical works ever composed! Very good pianist!
bratsheMag 1 year ago
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bratsheMag 1 year ago
Despite the coughing, this is still the best version on Youtube. Only Richter truly makes me shed tears. I think this is the perfect tempo for this piano arrangement. A sensible mix of sadness, melancholy and fragile hope. My favorite on Youtube along with "Jeux d'eau" also composed by Ravel and also interpreted by Richter.
TheRemicarrier 1 year ago
There does not worry the cough of the public... His music is so intense that it is the only thing that matters for me indeed...beautiful interpretation... Richter was in his own world... He was not listening to the cough of the people... It was too far... Painting the beauty...
Thank you very much for raising this post!!
camileludwig 1 year ago 3
was he performing in a hospital full of sick people?
marcohorowitz8 1 year ago 67
@marcohorowitz8 one must process exquisite taste to choose to play something like this in the hospital. i think the song finally finished off the cough guy.
ibm4 10 months ago 2
@marcohorowitz8 room full of VERY inconsiderate people.... sheeezz
irish89055 7 months ago
Oh lol... Now I've read that I can't unread it. This video has just become a million times more morbid for me. The music is perfect.
RH98 6 months ago
@marcohorowitz8 HAHAHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
newFranzFerencLiszt 5 months ago
@marcohorowitz8 hahahahah
garloish 4 months ago
@marcohorowitz8 Because there aren't any hospitals that are full of healthy people.
mangoslicedancer 3 months ago 2
@mangoslicedancer hah
BasileusR 3 months ago
Budapest in March or, may be, Moscow in April of 1954
GoryashiiSneg 1 year ago
The coughers must be Americans. They are insensible to beautiful music.
tonygumbrell22 1 year ago
@tonygumbrell22 Insulting Americans. How original.
dredeye 1 year ago
@tonygumbrell22 Do you have any idea how many symphonies, operas, and ballet companies there are in the United States? As an American and a cellist and a regular devotee of classical recordings on youtube, I have to respectfully disagree. Sure, there is much to be ashamed of in American culture (American Idol, Brittany Spears, Justin Bieber, etc.), but to characterize all Americans as Philistines because you only see our ignorant, uncouth people on television is unfair.
herodotus53 11 months ago
Whatever the date-great playing!!
superbemaison 1 year ago
carnegie hall?
4785689 1 year ago
@4785689 seeing the date-Richter did not play in Carnegie Hall before 1960- so this comes from in the East-Poland tp be exact.
superbemaison 1 year ago
@superbemaison or even in Hungary.
superbemaison 1 year ago
So heartbreakingly beautiful, it's easy to concentrate on the relevant part - let them cough away... Thanks so much!
LeonFleisherFan 1 year ago
I once attended a concert given by a German pianist of great standing. It was the depths of winter and lots of people had colds. He was playing that wonderful G flat Moment Musical by Schubert. In the middle however he shouted at his noisy audience. Dead silence did ensue but the tension created by his outburst ruined the evening for me. I would never have attended another concert by this man if someone had paid me. I should add that it was not Richter who was playing.
newgeorge 1 year ago 2
I once attended a concert given by a German pianist of great standing. It was the depths of winter and lots of people had colds. He was playing that wonderful G flat Moment Musical by Schubert. In the middle however he shouted at his noisy audience. Dead silence did ensue but the tension created by his outburst ruined the evening for me. I would never have attended another concert by this man if someone had paid me.
newgeorge 1 year ago
@newgeorge
I think it's a lack of respect for any pianist who gives everything in every concert, having sick people around the concert hall. If icatched a cold I would stay at home instead of making annoying noises and make others get sick too.
Cough-cough.
andibonnington 1 year ago
obrigado
astudyofmuse 1 year ago
Painful
MakaGogaladze 1 year ago
曲のテンポと メロディラインがさすが！
1123freddie 1 year ago
If I were Richter, I would interrupt and tell them to shut the fuck up
malhashoudega 1 year ago 2
Awesome playing! TY truecrypt
paulostroff99 1 year ago
Brings tears to my eyes. So damm sad and beautiful at the same time
violetavalery 1 year ago
It's sort of angering at the amount of hate going on in the comments towards the coughing. As someone else mentioned, this was recorded in Budapest, Hungary, in 1954. Half the people in the audience were probably dying from exposure, but of course you don't care because they're ruining your listening experience. Disgusting.
grungzer 1 year ago 4
@grungzer yea cus when i listen to ravel i try to think of people in hungary 60 years ago dying from a cough. also if they were dying from exposure they shouldn't go out to concert. also fuck them they probably got everyone else there sick
pozsoz 1 year ago
@pozsoz You're a fucking disgusting prick.
grungzer 1 year ago
@grungzer i love you man, you're like a time activist. the people's ghosts (cus most everyone in that recording is dead) will come back to thank you for your concern towards them, or to ask you for some vicks 44 cus they were screwing richters wonderful performance and they want to make it up to ravel fans and gaywads like you
pozsoz 1 year ago
@grungzer Why are you being so serious...? As you said, it WAS 1954, so there's nothing we can do about it now. I agree with not hating on them, but try to have a sense of humour...
pearsewl 1 year ago
@pearsewl I'm sorry, it's just a sensitive topic for me, so I got a bit worked up. I have a friend that was directly affected by what happened around that time, I've heard the stories. She had family that died there, so it's frustrating to see these comments. I apologize for my outburst though.
grungzer 1 year ago
sounds like the soundtrack to Camille...
stay at home, hackers!!
BernardProfitendieu 1 year ago
@yukakosakai 貴重な音源だよ。
momohajime 1 year ago
This is what should be called magical.
iplongnin 1 year ago
Quietly beautiful performance.
yourforte 1 year ago
very nice!!
rainrain777 1 year ago
I love it. This nostalgic fantasy.
Ivopogorelichchopin 1 year ago
wonderful music, i specially liked the part when i pressed the little ball button -.-
dagadbm 1 year ago
About the coughs:
If you were sick and dying...wouldn't you go to a Richter concert? :)))
...
*58 coughs later*
Nevermind.
Darklord12356 1 year ago 2
it was not the cough hat carried her off
It was the coffin they carried her off in
armstrongariz 1 year ago 4
old recording? circa plague?
sherbert10ink 1 year ago
@sherbert10ink Yes, he recorded it on a large stale biscuit, an idea stolen by the inventor of the gramaphone.
maureenOWW 1 year ago
Thank you for this. Very moving.
danaross 1 year ago
wish ravel could've composed more sentimental pieces like this one
dalecampbl7 1 year ago 3
@dalecampbl7
but he did!
franciscocio 1 year ago
While there may be a hundred coughs in this rendition, there's just as many hate-filled comments about them. It's Budapest in the Eastern bloc, in the winter, 1954 - Sorry these people came out to the concert hall to have their spirits lifted and hearts warmed.
mitislumen 1 year ago 8
@mitislumen
Exactly! You've got it right, mitislumen.
professor501 7 months ago
For cough.
devoludo 1 year ago 2
This is a piece to which most people cough - Victor Borge
Piacevole 1 year ago 3
I think they're coughing in the wrong key to begin with. Then they have obviously
not practiced enough or the coughing technique would have been perfected.
And did you notice the man blowing his honky nose?
freefroggynow 1 year ago
P.S. those bastards were not even ashamed of the Defunte...
Richter had his haters, they tried and still are trying to ruin him... amazing, but true.
And I am not surprised to see how many people loved Richter and still love him
francorussie2 1 year ago
thank you, folks, for the hilarious comments!
comforting
francorussie2 1 year ago
jesus christ! is there a doctor in the house, or what?
jakiner 1 year ago
Is this all to do? Stop whining about the coughing, instead listen to music like pianist do.
ComradeKomaron 1 year ago
@ComradeKomaron ...and is great.
ComradeKomaron 1 year ago
WTF?
how many "cofs" did you hear in this recording???
Fuck Off
luizfabrizio22 1 year ago
coughing must be what noise the audience makes when they eargasm.
sevieht 1 year ago 3
omgoodness... these people should just shut up and die outside
akaiyoruyume 1 year ago
haunting
crayfishrock 1 year ago
Did the princess die of a coughing fit? For fucks sake. SHUT UP!!!! Such a nice piece and pianist. Arrrggghhh I'm so mad a coughing for ruining this lovely work
UnwrittenPaul 1 year ago
They were dying. Cof cof cof cof...... cof..... cof cof cooooooof.
BirdsBrasil 1 year ago
One of the most beautiful classical works ever composed
RJLKMRD 1 year ago
very biutiful music!!!
shopindani 1 year ago
Magnifique Richter. Merci truecrypt. Mais insupportables tous ces cathareux qui perturbent trop souvent les concerts, opéras, et donc le plaisir de ceux qui écoutent.
Qu'ils restent chez eux et toussent à volonté devant une vidéo.
10surdix 1 year ago 2
Cathareux? Culs-terreux non?
InfernoDaBaka 1 year ago
Culs-terreux, je ne sais. Mais
catarrheux sûrement. Grrrr !Pardon pour
l'orthographe précédente.
10surdix 1 year ago
This must be Richters winter tour :P
rafaelito1981 1 year ago
I got halfway, and counted 38 coughs before I gave up.
PrestoTenebroso 1 year ago
if that were me playing i would've been like, "will someone shut those people the fuck up?!? buy some damn cough drops fagots"
ReasonIsTruth 1 year ago 2
Actually, the coughs are carefully placed signals which create synergetic message packets that carry across the bleak Moscow concert hall, from furry hat to furry hat. The occasional cough is in fact emitted by a determined member of the KGB attempting to disrupt the flow of information. But WE know how it all ended, don't we? (And RAVEL= Russian Analytical Vortex Elucidation Logistics).
mjw368 1 year ago 20
@mjw368 That, sir, is some fine, fine nonsense.
PrestoTenebroso 1 year ago
Thank you, Tenebroso - I didn't read *Illuminatus* for nothing, then. Are you "le ténébreux, le veuf, l'inconsolé? Scriabin or Berg?
mjw368 1 year ago
The dark, the widower, the inconsoled? I'm uncertain.
PrestoTenebroso 1 year ago
I just thought there might be a literary reference to Nerval in your internym (or whatever) as well as to Scriabin or Berg.
mjw368 1 year ago
Ah. Oh, no. It's a bit of self referential humor. It's actually the tempo marking on my first "big hit" classical piece.
PrestoTenebroso 1 year ago
Curiouser and curiouser. Can one by any chance access this classical piece somehow?
mjw368 1 year ago
Well, I've never recorded it, but you can look at the score if you'd like. Piano, two hands.
PrestoTenebroso 1 year ago
Pity I don't really read music well enough to "hear it" in my head. Good luck with that recording!
mjw368 1 year ago
roflcopter that's priceless
TheOneWingAngeI 1 year ago
I actually didn't notice the coughing until I had read the comments on the video, the song sounds so nice that it all just went away =)
michaeljh216 1 year ago
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emillianaa 1 year ago
I tried to count the number of coughs but completely lost count after 1 minute. I think half the audience was on their deathbeds with a cold or flu. At most performances I have gone to recently I have seen cough drops given out for free in the lobby. It's annoying but the music is played so beautifully I am able to just tune the coughing and snuffling out because I am so captivated by the masterful playing of this beautiful score.
crogersrx 1 year ago 4
Today the coughing has been replaced with cell phones.
Which, in my opinion, is why ushers should carry smashing hammers.
septip123 1 year ago 31
@septip123 Not replaced. Coupled.
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@septip123 Not replaced. Coupled.
Yellottwe 11 months ago
haha yea i pretend that the princess is dying of tuberculosis and hence the coughing
rainyskies89 1 year ago 68
Maybe they should have dedicated this splendid performance as "Pavane for a dying audience..." LOL
crogersrx 1 year ago 10
@rainyskies89 Dude, you made my day, I'll never listen to coughing in Richter's recordings the same way again.
arcturian627 1 year ago
@rainyskies89 The music is not to do with the princess dying, but with a dance she may have done while alive.
rbradaigh 1 year ago
guess I'm not the only one to have noticed. hard to concentrate with so many distractions.
loustylez 1 year ago