Sviatoslav Richter plays Schumann Symphonic Etudes, Op.13

[musicy88]

whether the second repeat in etude 9 was planned or a pure accident, it was a genius and what an agility!

[apollonianclockwork]

Ingenious!! The best performance ever.

[hardlybreath]

Casi nadie suele incluir en los estudios esta pieza. Para mi es genial, una de las mas bellas.

[PrestoPossibile]

wonderful performance... real power, fire! thanks for uploading

[felix0911176727]

Who can tell me why most pianists don't play 0:00~2:10? This part is so beautiful!!

[truecrypt]

You are absolutely correct!!! This is the last of 5 etudes (posthumous) in Des-dur. Schuman wrote more than 12 etudes and later "edited" them to a more "compact" form. Brahms wanted to include them into opus 13, but Clara Schuman thought it was R.S. wish to keep only 12 of them. I personally love these 5 dearly and always play them...

[felix0911176727]

Yes! I love them, too! They are really beautiful! Do you know who had played these 5 etudes? I only know Richter and Stefan Vladar had played...

[punkpoetry]

Off the top of my head: Perahia, Pollini, Kempff, Kissin. The first three put the posthumous variations in the rear of the main body, as an afterthought, or rather an adjunct; while Kissin (if I remember correctly) follows Richter in incorporating them within the original 12

I guess certain pianists feel that the inclusion of the posthumous variations undermines the dramatic unity of the work, making it less concentrated...

[Lukecash12]

Have you heard of how much Clara Schumann mistreated Liszt? she really gave him a cold reception for how generous he was, and not only that, but we all know Liszt and Schumann were fond of one another.

Any truth in these facts, truecrypt?

[truecrypt]

Personal relations between big artists are not always friendly and rosy. Often they are strong and ambitious individuals. The same goes to Liszt, Schumann, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Thalberg... Probably Schumann was the most generous man in terms of accepting success of others. The relations between these Greats were such a mixture of mutual respect, jealousy, admiration and competition...

Read their letters! Fascinating documents!

[Lukecash12]

Indeed. I can't but agree. I was wanting to ask if there was anything truth to the fact that Liszt put on several concerts to commemorate R. Schumann posthumously, and C. Schumann wasn't exactly the most savory character to him (that's about as politely as I could put). I read that information from a few letters between them, but I'm sure you know better than me, so I didn't see the harm in asking whether or not it was true.

[joestephens3]

@truecrypt

I'm sure you've heard Arrau play these - great tenderness!

[andou7]

when Schumann revised this piece, he deleted this part.

[oblifan132]

I don't understand why anyone would perform at such speed; it only makes it worse. Still worth hearing though.

[truecrypt]

Would be nice to know which etude/variation you're directing your comment to...

[hansmeyer111]

To oblifan132: Yes, you don´t understand.

[MemyH567]

I'm with your idea!

It's absolutely a problem!

This speed makes this wonderful piece worse!!!

[morvensky]

At least he is not rushing the hell out of it :P

[nairigrigorian]

tembral'noye bogatstvo,shirota palitri y v toje vremia isklyuchitel`naya delikadnost'...

[chad410]

this is better than the old Russian recording i have where the piano was out of tune. thankss