Richter - Liszt's Sonata

[tiagosantospinto]

The Richter Scale actually measures the earthquakes caused by Sviatoslav's playing.

[gkollias14]

@marcelmombeekpiano: I wil have to report you to Youtube to keep you IP adress and block you from coming here.

[Kinjutsuu]

2 people...... oh wait these jokes aren't funny

[MaximPodolsky]

This is just a practice of course, and at the end he says that it's no good, in a longer version of this recording... I'd like to hear the final version of this, and for people to critisize an unpolished performance like that is just wrong. There's a video of him rehearsing Brahms' 2nd concerto and he's obviously not even trying there, and so many people critisize him there as well, but have they listened to the recording made with the Chicago orchestra?

[weikko79]

In fact this is probably as good as Liszt playing gets.

[addeex1]

But he play´s it so slow with misstakes too :S

[weikko79]

Slow? Are you kidding? And exactly where can you spot any "misstakes"?

[weikko79]

Because he's practising, obviously.

"To be pity"? What does that mean?

[IQ40000]

weikko, the problem is that, he makes minor mistakes in this part, in his actual performance also. Still, Richter is a dancing showman and a genius.

[IQ40000]

Liszt played it way better. The attitude Richter has now is terrible. its' the sort of unmusical banging we would expect from a beginner.

[weikko79]

I didn't know you had heard Liszt's performance of this piece. Could you link it for me as well, I'd be very interested?

[chopinandliszt]

weikko79, unfortunately, Liszt died without recording his interpretation of the piece. Even Chopin was impressed by Liszt's playing of Chopin Etudes- "I would like to steal the way he plays my Etudes." As a performer, Liszt was an exceptional genius. Do you honestly need to see Liszt playing in order to compare them?

[cfwpiano]

I think weikko was being sarcastic... lol

[mombeekmarcel]

people, this is the butcher at the piano, he realy NEVER knew what to do with a piece, he is only reproducing and butchering.

[IQ40000]

yeah, addeex1, if you listen to his performance of Liszt Transcendental Etude no.10, you'll hear several recognizable mistakes. I think Richter has a health problem that prevents him from executing passages perfectly. He's a great pianist, but, look at his hair.. I mean, he's not old...Even this passage, which Liszt would have executed with little effort, (I read his biography) is consuming his strength and forcing him to struggle and dance. (Note that it's not a waltz or dance music)

[IQ40000]

"is consuming his strength and forcing him to struggle and dance. (Note that it's not a waltz or dance music) " By "his" in this sentence, I mean Richter. He's a great interpreter of Mozart as well. I would like to see how he dances when playing Mozart Sonata K545 in C major.

[chopinandliszt]

Seriously, IQ40000, if it was a waltz or dance music, he would have gone crazy, dancing.. You know, the word "Ballad" literally means "dance". It came to mean a narrative poem, but Richter's performance of Chopin Ballade No.4 reminds us of the original literal meaning of the title. He's a dancing queen (a metaphor) and a pianistic genius.

[IQ40000]

Agreed. I saw Richter playing Chopin's Ballade No.4 and Etude Op.25 No.5 once. He actually had the score on the piano and a page turner. It gave me the impression that he was practicing, but it was as good as formal performance. He was dancing like crazy, taking quick glances at the score... What a dancing genius he is... He should have worn a wig like that of Mozart and it would have been better.

[weikko79]

Well, you should see his performance in "Glinka the Composer" then; he actually does wear a wig in that one, playing Liszt (in both senses of the word).

[BBoyPure]

Well, Richter did have several memory lapses during his late years. And therefore he lost confidence playing pieces without the score.

[712Stephen]

@BBoyPure According to his own words in the "Enigma" documentary/biography, he played with the score because it was quite impossible to remember every instruction marked therein. He wanted to perform the music exactly as it was written, so he brought the score. He found playing by memory inadequate.

[705JRC]

@712Stephen I thought he played from the score because his perfect pitch started to go out of tune as he aged, and he started modulating to the wrong key areas, etc. Can you imagine even having a problem like that?

[712Stephen]

@705JRC Having absolute pitch doesn't hinder a musician from modulating, because they aren't just playing it by ear. They're playing it from muscle memory, from studying it, from toiling for many hours on phrasing and from shaping their playing to compliments the piece's structure. He would know from working on it what the modulations are without needing to rely on pitch recognition.

[705JRC]

@712Stephen I am just repeating what I read in Bruno Monsaigneon's interviews with Richter.

[soami2u]

He looks a bit like he's at the Wailing Wall, but this is a stupendous performance, obviously! I have a CD of a '60s version, one of the best ever recorded. It puts just about every other one in the shade, except maybe the 1932 Horowitz version or Argerich (though Arrau and Curzon are also great).

[mattandtrissy]

Holy crap! Is that a dildo hanging out behind his piano?????

[Phr33kPi4ni5t]

Microphone

[NuclearTide]

LOL

[Auki1971]

666:

just listen to the music,

you have the IQ of a green pea, a birdbrain so to say WHICH has nothing but **** to spread around. Just my two cents worth on these offtopic bullshit.

[samyooljackson]

z666z666z

"volodya you love me....but i don´t like gays . that´s the problem.

666 "

your not very funny :(

[laqin007]

z666z666z:

i know where u live and i know who you are, i think u should shut the f* up first and give a good comment. y u wrote a comment if you dont like it?!

what u mean DonkeyKong? can u be a donkeykong son? u r full of shit

[callanmchugh]

woah whats all the argument going on here

[z666z666z]

So funny Richter in this video. He looks like "Donkeykong"....

666

[88alan8800]

WOW

[bochonoff]

The most great performance!

[marcelmombeek]

BRRRRRRR, want to hear a GOOD performance: visit the youtube channel "czifframadness" and hear how it has to be played.

[HaparukuU]

Why are you spamming Richter videos with anti-Richter comments? If you don't like him that much, don't watch his videos.

[marcelmombeekeigen]

because youtube is made for publishing videos and publishing comments. Richter could only make noise in these pieces.

[truecrypt]

Dear Marcel;

As I've already said - in order to receive an incoming signal, both "receiver" and "transmitter" should be tuned to the same frequency. For you it's a "noise" but for others - very nice picture.

[volodya2]

you stupid guy! i like cziffra but you cannot speak that richter make only noise! Richter is a god!

[z666z666z]

Heeyy volodya the stupid are you.

Richter was a great pianists BUT NOT for any music. Nrmally his lIszt playing is nice ( but this excerpt is really ugly)

Richter is a god ?.

LOL.....

The onñy God here is myself.

Now.beach time.

666

[volodya2]

shut up if you don't know how to say.

Richter was probably the best pianist of 1900, because he is the best whit all music, from bach to prokofiev.

[z666z666z]

You are not only extremely ignorant volodia.

But a big fat asshole.

Go tu study music, instead to ma¡ke your fucking ridicoulus commnets.

666

[volodya2]

ooooohhh :O :O

you are the devil!!! i'm fearing about you!!! 666!!!

but please...

you are an idiot, and you can critics richter only when you can play better.

ps: i'm not fat...

[z666z666z]

Silly boy. Use just the most elmental logic. You said: "Richter is the best". So according to your reasoning nobody can play better ...so....NOBODY can critic Richter. LOL LOL ROFL Got to somebody who can aply to you a big enema.......To clean your brain, ( becuase your brian is in your ass zone), then.....apply your Scheriproct cream for the itch. LOL.LOL.LOL. What an asshole..............few like you on the world. Ahhhh i forgot: I fuck Richter. 666

[volodya2]

you stupidity make me laugh!

XDXDXD

[volodya2]

gne gne gne gne :P

[HaparukuU]

This is probably the new account of marcelmombeekeigen.

[HaparukuU]

I agree, I love Richter, Horowitz, Cortot, and cziffra. But just because he plays differently than Cziffra doesn't mean he is not a good pianist!

[z666z666z]

Nobody cares about Czifrra, or anybody else.

Despite my heroe pianist wasl always Rubisntein, i also like many differnte piano works played by somebody else. No one can play perfect eveything.

The onñy imbecilos who think in that way are the assholes of the world.

COncerning this sonata : Listen Arturo Moreyra Lima version (around 70s ) i think no one version on earth is better. the second one Rubinstein. Jorge Bolet version is also wonderful.

This Richter version is a piece of shit.

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[z666z666z]

---->His two List concerti released in the seventhies in label Philiphs is the best ( by Richter ).

Here people is not objetive. too many assholes.

666

[z666z666z]

I agree with you "marcelmombeeiroigeim"

The p`robelm in you tube is : Many assholes. Fanatics with a socker fanatic mentallity.

666

[HaparukuU]

You agree with him because you ARE HIM. He deleted his account...

[francorussie]

We've already analysed Marcelmom's and his other avatars' complexes regarding the great Richter. "He" hates him for being his opposite ;-), Richter ' s fame doesn't let him sleep at night

[HaparukuU]

But he himself isn't such a ad pianist. Horowitz and he were just very different, thats all. One used dynamics to color his playing, the other used tone.

[weikko79]

The intensity of the playing is something unbelievable.

[nazhiitoxx]

the crown of the music for piano played by the king... Sviatoslav Richter

[georgecziffra]

wild wild stuff

[guitarike]

too bad its not the whole piece, but its always great to see more of the great master

[seahyimin]

piano wrestling champ lol

[stayoriginal321]

...holy.....shit....

[Ted10038]

Couldn't agree more...