Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Concerto No. 3 (1/4)

[CenaniHarun]

Esta es una performance excelente !!!

Bravo !

[billyguns2]

I have no idea how you come up with these amazing performances which I've never heard; this one is as good as it gets, featuring a brilliant, musical and stylish Richter equally partnered by a too rarely heard Maestro.

[paulostroff99]

Awesome! As good as it gets. Bravo!

[PianoMazter]

Spasiva.

[Sinfoniette]

Thank you for the upload, but do you happen to have the Emperor Concerto, if Richter ever recorded it. It is my second favorite Beethoven Concerto. *First is the Triple. I love that one!*

[weikko79]

Richter never recorded (or even played) the Emperor Concerto. If I remember correctly, it was because of Heinrich Neuhaus (he played it so well that Richter thought he had nothing to add).

[Sinfoniette]

Sometimes, I hope Richter played the more famous concertos also instead of the more...less prominent concertos. Like the Prokofiev 3, Bartok 3 and the Emperor Concerto. Its quite a shame. Maybe I should listen to the Neuhaus rendition.

[RabidCh]

I don't really.

Richter desired "freshness" in performance, we may not have gotten as much Haydn or Schubert sonatas, or not have been blessed with the Saint Saens 5th, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, Dvorak piano concerto recordings.

I also wouldn't trade his Prokofiev 5th concerto recording for ANY Prokofiev 3rd recording.

[Sinfoniette]

Mmm. If Richter had recorded all the famous concerto I have stated, I would definitely buy those before the Rimsky, Glazunov, and the Dvorak, although I am looking forward for all of them. And thank god Richter recorded those unknown concertos. Might as well say that he revived them.

[RabidCh]

Also afaik, there are no recordings of Neuhaus's 5th concerto.

[mltube]

So, Richter did not play it for nothing? :-)

[RabidCh]

Maybe. Can't really know what goes on in "the Enigma"'s head...

[weikko79]

There are no recordings of it, but that doesn't mean Neuhaus didn't play it. Do you really think Neuhaus recorded his entire repertoire?

[RabidCh]

Of course not. What do you think I was saying? Some people are interested in a recording and I'm just letting them know that there is none.

[paulostroff99]

waikko79-Of course not. I know of no one that ever did. The point in what he said was that he believed that if something was already in his mind definitive-he believed that it should not be recorded at least by him-hence the Kreisleriano and Neuhaus. Richter was a real enigma.

[weikko79]

Richter didn't think in terms of recording, but in terms of performing music -- thus it's irrelevant whether a recording of the piece of existed or whether it was just performed. Richter thought so little of recordings that he once joked that all his recordings could be destroyed, with the exception of a few that he considered acceptable.

[paulostroff99]

weikko79- Richter was hardly ever satisfied with his own performances-being his own severest critic. He also stated that he played for his benefit and his alone. He was his own man and often in trouble with the authorities in his own country. He was severely chided for playing a lot of Bach-a German and sworn enemy of Russia.

[weikko79]

He was also chided for BEING a German.

[paulostroff99]

weikko-He also never played Kreisleriano and other related works,as he felt that Neuhaus played them to perfection,and that he then had nothing he could add to them.

[weikko79]

Kreisleriana, Goldberg Variations, Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto come to mind. But the pianist who had played them to perfection was not always Neuhaus (e. g. in the case of the Rach 3).

[paulostroff99]

weikko79- As was the case with Kreisleriano and other works.

[grigorserg2005]

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