Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Six Variations, Op. 76

[TERRYBIGGENDEN]

This an absolute joy! What a wonderful inspiring a human being Beethoven was, and Richter does him proud! :-)

[xarmil]

An old favourite of mine :) I used to listen to it in a vinyl record from my father, then I forgot about it entirely. I found meanwhile the original Beethoven's march, but I still prefer the variations. I have always loved them.

And yes, the original is called Turkish March from 'The Ruins of Athens'. Which nevertheless has nothing to do with Mozart. His Turkish March is in fact the 'Rondo Alla Turca' and is the 3rd movement of the sonata Kv 331.

[papayas234]

mein HP gibt wahre Begebenheiten wieder, was sich so abgespielt hat, wenn

es Beethoven wirklich als Mensch erzeugt hat und nicht nur als Potenzielle Konkurrenz...

[3kissii]

最高!!!大好きです!!!

[musicalux]

Richter has all the charm and warmth of a MIDI. Oh well, lovely piece anyway.

[kwastormayt]

isnt this turkish march :)

[sonarrat]

I was just playing this, going randomly through one of my books and decided to give it a try. I thought it was fantastic, and realized I had never heard it.

Then I come on Youtube and find that Richter has recorded it - are you f***ing kidding me?? He got to everything awesome first!

[epifaniopineda]

I love this piece and almost every thing that came out from Beethoven genius!!

[JillianChung]

awesome!!!

[AznAfroMan513]

he killed the 3rd variation, its way too fast

[Andresppiiaannoo]

Nunca Habia escuchado estas variaciones...si bien sabia la existencia de la marcha turka de Beethoven no sabia que luego habian variaciones, MARAVILLOSAS , y MARAVILLOSAS INTERPRETACIONES.. sin palabras CONGRATULATION!

saludos desde Argentina.

[beethomozart]

6 variations of the famous op.114 Athens ruins, Beethoven was not fond of this pretty page the turkish margh,long live ludwig van

[michaeltheace]

It's simply great.

[donghyun45]

This recording makes me smile :)

Richter's palying is likely to twinkle on the piano.

[fredpierce08]

As much as I admired Richter's playing, I'm very annoyed by old, terrible recordings, usually live, e.g., his recording of Mussorgsky's Pictures etc. Beethoven's Variations are very rewarding for pianists and sadly are too often dismissed as potboilers. They are splendid, full of interesting problems in rhythm, pianism & form. These should not be neglected, particularly those works to which the Master gave Opus numbers, 76, 34. 35 & 120 the Diabelli Variations, the greatest works since Bach.

[mariusdav]

it's turkish march from beethoven, but different wit mozart's

[smithsherman]

The only way I can rationalize that this is the same man who plays the Scriabin or Chopin Ballades (as if he had all the time in the world) with such deep feeling is that this was the height of the days of thinking of Beethoven as an Objectivist Godhead.

I respectfully disagree...entirely.