I don't agree that all you need are practice and determination, if anything, they will make you frustrated if you don't have the hands and the talent. I know, after playing for some 5 years, for the rest of my life (I'm quite old) t I could no longer improve no matter how much I practiced. Could you be a rhytmic gymnast or a coloratura soprano performing Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto if you practiced for years?
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chopin's best songs in my opinion are etude op.10 no.4, op.25 no.9, grande polonaise brillante, nocturne in c-sharp minor, minute waltz, and this one, although i think Yeol Eum Son played it better. still, bravo to this guy.
I've fought my way through op 10 no 4, the C#m, but can't get too far with the op 25 no 11!! It's getting the thing up to speed, not least the scale passage in unison to finish. Richter is amazing, really amazing.
I have played op.10 no.4 and am currently working on this one! So far, op.10 no.4 is harder, yet you can't compare both pieces because the technical aspects required for each differ greatly! While 10/4 demands a completely relaxed hand and amazing finger dexterity (not to mention having to hit those random high octave notes in the second section... ugh), this etude requires more tone coloring and more rhythmic control! For sheer technical difficulty, 10/4 wins, but overall this etude is harder!
Why do you think he hated this performance, chrish? BTW, I received yesterday a new CD, where Richter plays this etude about 30 years earlier (I never knew such recording existed) and clocks it at about 30(!) sec. faster. I like this performance too, but the earlier one is awesome, the likes you never heard before.
I was lucky enough to be in the second row at this recital in London from 1988 and it was a transcendent experience. In the second half Richter was in a foul mood, the atmosphere electric as he raced through 12 Etudes of Chopin as though the KGB were waiting in the wings. This was the last offering, the winter wind, never so icy as here, after the thunderous final chords and the brief bow you see at the end, he was long gone into the night, our tumultous bravos and applause unheard by the Master
I do not think many could equal him, but when he was really old, his hands were probably not as "mighty" any longer as in his youth. Before his death he suffered from brain / auditive pitch alteration that is what he recounts. It's a kind of professional disorder due to "overtraining", I know there are people who worked for too long in choir singing they suffer from that ("higher pitch" they say)
he made mistakes but i dont care... thats why this interpretation is unique.... and of all the iterpretation i´ve heard of this piece this is my favorite 1, too much power.... and listen the final A octave... i mean... damn.....
A fantastic pianist, a huge virtuoso,my favourite pianist (and I don´t say that abuot anybody xD), and maybe (not maybe but obiusly) the best pianist of all in 20th century
oye, richter si se equivocó, lo admito, pero considera tres cosas antes de decir lo q estás diciendo:
1. Richter estaba ya viejo y desgastado, como ya han dicho, en este video Richter ya no es lo que era antes.
2. La leyera o no, estaba pendiente de la partitura y eso te distrae, quieras o no de la música.
3. Se nota que jamás has escuchado una grabación de Richter de cuendo era joven, digamos 1939, después de escucharlo tocar los "Trascendental Etudes" de Liszt vas a cambiar tu opinión sobre él
wow fantastic interpretation......tempo is so balanced and full of feeling of cold winter. perhaps for this piece this YAMAHA works better than Steinway; Just love the clear sharp sound of the piano
I would not say it is the most difficult etude. #4 op. 10 is definitely more complicated... personally, I just started studying this one, and I'm not finding it that hard (the quick notes are all a matter of rotation of the hand)... it's just a bit harder than op.10 #12, which I just completed.
I do love this etude because it gives huge satisfaction to the pianist who plays it.. it's just so loud and impressive!
I'm pretty weak on fast reading, but I find this etude definitely harder to put in place than #4 op 10. #4 op 10 does have great 'local' difficulties but (in my opinion at least) globally easier.
Oh no, when I read those silly comments and all the mistakes :
1. Richter ALMOST "stopped" playing virtually before his death. And he died aged 82. Apart from that he had photographic memory and had absolute pitch.
2. Richter ' s one of or may be the best interpreter of Chopin, at least emotionally.
3. His mother never was involved with any "uncle" This is nonsense told by some German site : the tragic story of betrayal was linked to a collegue of Richter 's father Theophil.
P.S. "Richter the Enigma" is a film made shortly before Richter 's death. It is of greatest interest, but apparently, from what I have seen, it sometimes offers a somewhat distorted image of Richter 's exceptional personality. I do not know if it reflects that fact the Richter was a man who knew how to have a great time with friends (but when he was old and very ill, surely he could be depressed) or the fact that he was an "avid" reader and knew a huge lot about art, etc.
Oh no, when I read those silly comments and all the mistakes :
1. Richter ALMOST "stopped" playing virtually before his death. And he died aged 82. Apart from that he had photographic memory and had absolute pitch.
2. Richter ' s one of or may be the best interpreter of Chopin, at least emotionally.
3. His mother never was involved with any "uncle" This is nonsense told by some German site : the tragic story of betrayal was linked to a collegue of Richter 's father Theophil.
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when i learn op 10 no 12, and thought it was hard........till i saw this=.= aaaaaaaaa........i seriously got alot of catching up! im 16 and i stil cant play pieces like this, damnit i seriously suck!
Interpretation is required since not all the dynamics are there... Richter's interpretation could have been different, but it's his talent, not yours to judge. You think he couldn't do it? Of course he could start making a lot more stuff than on the sheets. I bet you know how Chopin wanted his pieces played, but didnt' want to write it down at all, to cause flustration and doubt :P
This is beautiful beyond doubt; but listen also to Alexander Brailowsky playing in Paris in the 1920's (?) and based upon comments from Chopin's remaining students ... ! The record is here on YTube.
A master playing a master's composition. What power, rancor, and winter gales. Richter was undoubtedly among the very greatest pianist of the 20th Century, better than Horowitz in my opinion for Richter's philosophy was that you should convey the composer's intent at all costs and never did things like skip repeats.
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"convey the composer's intent"??? that's just playing the note's and dynamics like they are written, so no human touch, no re-composing, so if we have 10 pianist's who do this, there would be no difference between there interpreation? Ok, so you have found richter, no human touch, no lyric... almost like pollini
Did you know that there is an emotion called anger. Emotions doesn't necessarily mean plating in a romantically sloppy style. Richter father was killed and betrayed by his uncle and the soviet union. His mother later betrayed her husband, and went with the uncle - so we can't expect him to play in a sloppy wishy- washy manner.
Well he chose to be a pianist (luckily for us) and he left a huge mark on piano tradition, along with an inspirational treasure of live and studio recordings, which gave the opportunity for attention-seekers to criticize such a giant. I'd be thankful if I were you :)
I do not hate all performances of richter, only those where he does not play with his heart but only with his fingers, and most of his performances are this way... see "enigma",there he admits that he played most of the time not good... only at the end of his live I had a feeling that he was a musician... but that was at the end of his life. He even say that: "i began to play more freely and took attention for my tone..."
Richter always played with his heart. For me he has been the pianist of the 20th entury, no doubt. I recommend you stop listening him playing and re-try when you grow 15 years older than now. You´ll never find excess or magic tricks in him, which for me makes music more and more interesting. He is like Brahms or Mozart, the emotions are hiden, never obvious but insinuated, it is music for either old people or old music lovers. Regards.
People have criticizing Richter for playing 10/10 technique and 0/10 with soul, which is of course a lie. Especially when he plays one of the chopin etudes. Let me ask you a question, if you were playing chopin at lightspeeed, would you be able to have time to pause for the 'lyrical, melodic' qualities of music?
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I would not play chopin at light speed, that's just the point. He plays it at light speed because he has no imagination to play it with "lyrical or melodic" qualities.
Richter beleived you are to follow the score exactly, which you may find unoriginal, but it how he played. However, he still, i think, played with heart and a commanding tone. For his etudes, chopins tempo marking were very fast, hence the speed here
SHUT UP DEGENERATES you realize that tempos have changed over time. Life is goes at a much quicker pace now. a Presto in Bach's time is not the same as a Presto today so shut up about him speeding up all of you. His tempo is perfect and so is his portrayal of the cahracter of this piece go study then come back and for now keep your tongues behind your teeth animals.
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I suppose you went not long to school, let me guess: basic education? any way, your knowledge of interpreation is far away, if you like this, well you like probably also pollini. non-music!!!
you mortal how dare you judge this GOD i'd like to see you climb mount olympus. in other words you have nothing on richter please give it up he is accepted world wide as one of the greatest pianists in the history of mankind so please keep your stupidity to yourself
DISGRACE: richter is respected world-wide as one of the greatest pianists in the history of piano. Heinrich Nehaus calls him a genius and you stand here and unload your uneducated filth-worthless. You are worthless go listen to something simpler like The Beatles this kind of music is not for you.
What is the Chopin tradition really? Carried on by such pupils too, who very likely were only able to play the easier nocturnes, preludes and such - on a modest level of skill and talent. He must have had some real virtuoso level pupils too. I don't know. Chopin-Liszt-Cortot,there is a link for sure.
This is from the "Enigma" movie. There are sub-titles there. Richter complains about deteriorating pitch and that he practically stopped playing because of that. But it has nothing to do with this performance, which took place 7 years earlier.
OK OK OK OK wait listen to musicgolod's fucking video the kid has a lot of promise and people fucking ripped him up! ?????????? IDK y they do that to the kid! MUSICGOLOD is his name
it's not the kid himself it's someone publicizing for the kid and will be eating the kid's money later. i've also seen a myspace profile commercialing for a "special child" like this one. i think the only advertising a pianist should need would be done by his/her performance because believe me; if the kid's good enough, people WILL be talking about him.
i understand that the heartful people within the financial liberty of contributing to the kid's path noticing the kid is a positive thing to happen, but the shady and cruel system of marketing forces the desire to question the whole structure every time.
maaan chopin is just freakin amazing. and richter plays this just awesome. plays everything awesome really......... especially chopin etude op10 no4 =O
I shall pass that message on my next time travel. He will be thrilled, I am sure. Who are the other two (just in case if I run into them by some chance)? :-)
Of course it's not fair. No all of us have as much talent as this guy.
Just like a guy with IQ of 60 working really hard while a guy with 160 is slacking off, wasting his HIGH IQ abilities that the IQ 60 clearly deserves more.
I LISTENED AND IT WAS FANTASTIC.......Thanks for posting=]....dont let people bring you down! just remember three words in any situation of life....PEACE LOVE AND MUSIC
Well... Consider this is Chopin =P I'm playing one of these studies, in which I have to play a Do with my fifth finger and then a La b with my fourth finger... my hand hurts after that =P
BTW It's lovely the way this Richter guy plays the left hand, you can hear it's melody properly =D
if you can't reach all the notes of a chord.. doesnt mean you can't play the piece.;. all you do is play one note at a time real fast.. like arpeggios in a way.. thats what my amazing teacher does because she has small hands
It certainly takes a pianist to appreciate this kind of playing,because "pianism"is all that's offered.
If you're a musician of another instrument,a writer,a painter,or just a good old-fashioned feeling music-lover it's very unlikely you are to appreciate
this spiritually and emotionally fossilized exoskeleton.
a performer is not the sum of there parts but instead they are to be adored for the many fine examples of musicianship they've produced over their
lifetime. emotionally fossilized for this performance maybe though it sounds cruel and inhumane. you must be an angry wannabe. richter's body of work is quite remarkable. He's an old man now. Lighten up Mr. Perfect
richter is considered by most of the pianists of my generaton inluding ivo pogorelich ,late arthur rubinstein as a one of the greatest ,this was the best perfpormans of the 'winter storm" that i ever heard!
Interesting comment. Going bankrupt with ShitMusicFox Dot com, that you need to post these kind of advertorials everywhere? Hopefully YouTube is sending you a royal bill.
he was the giant under the universalists of 20 century in classical music at all. and believe me, he was one of the greatest pianists of all times also. i remember not good, but was as a child sometimes when he was playing in moscow, once i was sitting and listening to a concert of another pianist next to him, and i remember it was for me like sitting next to god
i love many pianists, like horowitz or rubinstein, like gould or affanasiev, like gilels or lipatti. but richter is still my idol
but what can i say about a pianist who play all barock until modern classic on this really extrem high level. he played bach and händel ( do not forget: many people prefer his "wohltemperiertes klavier"), beethoven, mozart, schubert(!), schumann(!!!), brahms(!), haydn (!), all russian romantic and twenty century music, french music ( you know another not spcialist who play 3 concerts from saint-saens ?), all slavish music and a lot, really a lot of chamber music...and ..and ...and
I had the privilege of seeing Richter in concert back in 1993. Although his performances of baroque music left a lot to be desired he was a supreme artist when it came to the romantic repertoire.
Lucky you, since by then he was already winding up with his concerts. But what baroque music did he play, other than Bach? All his Bach recordings that I heard from that time, such as English and French suites, are superb.
I learned the first 20 bars of this and then gave up. Now I can see why. He seems to have huge hands, though that's not necessarily an advantage in this piece. Chopin's hands were quite small - a cast of them can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery.
I struggled with this etude and never performed it. I'm gald to see that Richter also seems to find it challenging. These videos are incredibly important. We see wonderful but imperfect performances, everybody out there keep practicing, reaching...
There are many 'real' talents these days..but they dont sound the same as the talents of yesteryear...its odd that some people expect them to. Times have changed, people change but good music making is eternal. One has to listen with an open and attentive eye. Certainly there is a greater emphasis on accuracy and control than was common in Richters day but there are many truely great 'thinkers' and 'poets' of the keyboard out there... you just have to listen out for them.
I still find it odd that piano players unswervingly idolize Richter. Ok he was a great pianist..yes at his best he was one of the top pianists of his era. its also true to say when he was bad he was BAD. We were always taught in conservatory 'a pianist is only as good as his last performance' , I have no pianistic idol - attempt I learn from all..there are many college students who give as good and better performances of this study.
I imagine that, like Horowitz, 'you had to be there.' There is so much more to an enthralling performance than the music. There is history, atmostphere, electricity, emotion and of course sound. I suspect Richter had a 'sound' that had to be heard live to be fully appreciated.
he was at 74 years old at this recording. if you watch the legendary documentary of bruno monsangeon (a violonist and director, whom mostly worked with glenn gould) called "richter the enigma" you saw that
richter told his retirement story with this piece.
he said at the end of enigma " i have lost sense of my pitch, i am retired now" and listened a version of this etude he said "i am not making up". after this explanation we watched this video, what a sinematic efect.
It's interesting how my teacher(Juliard phd btw) told me how Richter didn't necessarily have great technique, but playing from 'heart' to cover it up. Same goes for Rubinstein.. Then she told me on the other hand Ashkenazy and Pollini were PERFECT.
I love the way he walked off the stage. Almost like saying I don't need your applause, I preform for myself.
HardHouseMusic4Me 1 year ago
I don't agree that all you need are practice and determination, if anything, they will make you frustrated if you don't have the hands and the talent. I know, after playing for some 5 years, for the rest of my life (I'm quite old) t I could no longer improve no matter how much I practiced. Could you be a rhytmic gymnast or a coloratura soprano performing Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto if you practiced for years?
starborg9 2 years ago
Free Dictionary?
pookiehohn 2 years ago
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chopin's best songs in my opinion are etude op.10 no.4, op.25 no.9, grande polonaise brillante, nocturne in c-sharp minor, minute waltz, and this one, although i think Yeol Eum Son played it better. still, bravo to this guy.
nadocoro 3 years ago
oh yeah, and Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 is a good one too
nadocoro 3 years ago
Best PIECES, not songs
Cartoonsbystan 3 years ago 4
"bravo to this guy" ?? LOL, is Sviatoslav Richter!!!
BarcelonaNation 2 years ago
I've fought my way through op 10 no 4, the C#m, but can't get too far with the op 25 no 11!! It's getting the thing up to speed, not least the scale passage in unison to finish. Richter is amazing, really amazing.
vladdegs 3 years ago 2
I have played op.10 no.4 and am currently working on this one! So far, op.10 no.4 is harder, yet you can't compare both pieces because the technical aspects required for each differ greatly! While 10/4 demands a completely relaxed hand and amazing finger dexterity (not to mention having to hit those random high octave notes in the second section... ugh), this etude requires more tone coloring and more rhythmic control! For sheer technical difficulty, 10/4 wins, but overall this etude is harder!
pureaKero 3 years ago
Davvero magnifico... a parte il pezzo, l'esecuzione è stupenda!!!!lo consiglio a tutti coloro che amano questo studio!!!
zhenjiqiaos 3 years ago
After how many years of piano playing could I expect to play that piece?
pierolivier111 3 years ago
it depends on how hard you work really :)
vocalpianist 3 years ago
yeah but normaly?
pierolivier111 3 years ago
hmm maybe 10 years, if you are v.good
MartinaFromPoland 3 years ago
It really does depend on how much you practice and if your determined. I've been playing for a year & 1/2 and I could play this if I worked at it.
weslo1finalfantasy1 3 years ago
2 b honest i doubt it for 1 year and a half well age does matter 2 how old r u
12345678321456 2 years ago
Ist9162, check out Analxixen's entry below. Also, I don't think Richter smiled much at all.
dsm2240 3 years ago
Why isn't he smiling? that performance was mind-blowing!
lst9162 3 years ago
:O
OMG
lst9162 3 years ago
greatest....hardest....
cross147 3 years ago
Why do you think he hated this performance, chrish? BTW, I received yesterday a new CD, where Richter plays this etude about 30 years earlier (I never knew such recording existed) and clocks it at about 30(!) sec. faster. I like this performance too, but the earlier one is awesome, the likes you never heard before.
mltube 3 years ago
I was lucky enough to be in the second row at this recital in London from 1988 and it was a transcendent experience. In the second half Richter was in a foul mood, the atmosphere electric as he raced through 12 Etudes of Chopin as though the KGB were waiting in the wings. This was the last offering, the winter wind, never so icy as here, after the thunderous final chords and the brief bow you see at the end, he was long gone into the night, our tumultous bravos and applause unheard by the Master
analxixen 3 years ago 2
he hated this performance.... hard to believe why
chrish12345 3 years ago
I do not think many could equal him, but when he was really old, his hands were probably not as "mighty" any longer as in his youth. Before his death he suffered from brain / auditive pitch alteration that is what he recounts. It's a kind of professional disorder due to "overtraining", I know there are people who worked for too long in choir singing they suffer from that ("higher pitch" they say)
francorussie 3 years ago
he made mistakes but i dont care... thats why this interpretation is unique.... and of all the iterpretation i´ve heard of this piece this is my favorite 1, too much power.... and listen the final A octave... i mean... damn.....
number1pianist 3 years ago
A fantastic pianist, a huge virtuoso,my favourite pianist (and I don´t say that abuot anybody xD), and maybe (not maybe but obiusly) the best pianist of all in 20th century
Even better than Horowitz
(But not better than me) xDDD!!!!!!
nazhiitoxx 3 years ago 2
did anyone else notice the very very faint sound of the cascading melody at 00:27 just before it is played at 00:30? what's going on there?
butcheniho 3 years ago
q mal toca yo conoci a un stripper q tocaba el piano con el pene y lo hacia mejor.
MCJ6KK 3 years ago
oye, richter si se equivocó, lo admito, pero considera tres cosas antes de decir lo q estás diciendo:
1. Richter estaba ya viejo y desgastado, como ya han dicho, en este video Richter ya no es lo que era antes.
2. La leyera o no, estaba pendiente de la partitura y eso te distrae, quieras o no de la música.
3. Se nota que jamás has escuchado una grabación de Richter de cuendo era joven, digamos 1939, después de escucharlo tocar los "Trascendental Etudes" de Liszt vas a cambiar tu opinión sobre él
nazhiitoxx 3 years ago
umh the hardest 1 is theop 10 no 4.... believe me :P
number1pianist 3 years ago
mmm...can you play at a fast pace the tenths in the op. 10 Nº1 etude?
nico22059 3 years ago
OMFG
godzilla282004 3 years ago
wow fantastic interpretation......tempo is so balanced and full of feeling of cold winter. perhaps for this piece this YAMAHA works better than Steinway; Just love the clear sharp sound of the piano
PedoTorPanda 3 years ago
Wunderschön...
dieses Stück ist einer von meinen Günstlingen... ich glaube, den Wind zu fühlen...
Und Richter...
Danke
ArbiterElegantium 3 years ago 2
I would not say it is the most difficult etude. #4 op. 10 is definitely more complicated... personally, I just started studying this one, and I'm not finding it that hard (the quick notes are all a matter of rotation of the hand)... it's just a bit harder than op.10 #12, which I just completed.
I do love this etude because it gives huge satisfaction to the pianist who plays it.. it's just so loud and impressive!
ladychopin 3 years ago
I'm pretty weak on fast reading, but I find this etude definitely harder to put in place than #4 op 10. #4 op 10 does have great 'local' difficulties but (in my opinion at least) globally easier.
romotchka 3 years ago
The most difficult Chopin Etude! So many notes and combinations. It's a huge problem just to read all the notes!
DesAbends 3 years ago
Oh no, when I read those silly comments and all the mistakes :
1. Richter ALMOST "stopped" playing virtually before his death. And he died aged 82. Apart from that he had photographic memory and had absolute pitch.
2. Richter ' s one of or may be the best interpreter of Chopin, at least emotionally.
3. His mother never was involved with any "uncle" This is nonsense told by some German site : the tragic story of betrayal was linked to a collegue of Richter 's father Theophil.
francorussie 3 years ago
P.S. "Richter the Enigma" is a film made shortly before Richter 's death. It is of greatest interest, but apparently, from what I have seen, it sometimes offers a somewhat distorted image of Richter 's exceptional personality. I do not know if it reflects that fact the Richter was a man who knew how to have a great time with friends (but when he was old and very ill, surely he could be depressed) or the fact that he was an "avid" reader and knew a huge lot about art, etc.
francorussie 3 years ago
Oh no, when I read those silly comments and all the mistakes :
1. Richter ALMOST "stopped" playing virtually before his death. And he died aged 82. Apart from that he had photographic memory and had absolute pitch.
2. Richter ' s one of or may be the best interpreter of Chopin, at least emotionally.
3. His mother never was involved with any "uncle" This is nonsense told by some German site : the tragic story of betrayal was linked to a collegue of Richter 's father Theophil.
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when i learn op 10 no 12, and thought it was hard........till i saw this=.= aaaaaaaaa........i seriously got alot of catching up! im 16 and i stil cant play pieces like this, damnit i seriously suck!
ongpohheng 4 years ago
Poor you.
gdan666666 4 years ago
absolutely fantastic
barelyapianist 4 years ago
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He played this piece a little bit rigid. For me I like it to be smoother. But that's his perception, I respect that.
meteoriasiow 4 years ago
Inspiring.
3NUNS 4 years ago
Interpretation is required since not all the dynamics are there... Richter's interpretation could have been different, but it's his talent, not yours to judge. You think he couldn't do it? Of course he could start making a lot more stuff than on the sheets. I bet you know how Chopin wanted his pieces played, but didnt' want to write it down at all, to cause flustration and doubt :P
DaConstruct 4 years ago 3
this is the best performance i've ever seen...
vinbelgium 4 years ago 5
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good example of bad music making
iwantmusicplease 4 years ago
wtf are talking about , stupid moron
thegoddescomposer 4 years ago 19
man chopin composed this well and ritcher played well u stupid fuck
VivaChihuahua 4 years ago
This is beautiful beyond doubt; but listen also to Alexander Brailowsky playing in Paris in the 1920's (?) and based upon comments from Chopin's remaining students ... ! The record is here on YTube.
BarNuun 4 years ago
A master playing a master's composition. What power, rancor, and winter gales. Richter was undoubtedly among the very greatest pianist of the 20th Century, better than Horowitz in my opinion for Richter's philosophy was that you should convey the composer's intent at all costs and never did things like skip repeats.
Ghost2499 4 years ago 3
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"convey the composer's intent"??? that's just playing the note's and dynamics like they are written, so no human touch, no re-composing, so if we have 10 pianist's who do this, there would be no difference between there interpreation? Ok, so you have found richter, no human touch, no lyric... almost like pollini
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
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better then Horowitz????? most of his live richter only played note's without emotion... Horowitz was a real musician...
iwantmusicplease 4 years ago
Did you know that there is an emotion called anger. Emotions doesn't necessarily mean plating in a romantically sloppy style. Richter father was killed and betrayed by his uncle and the soviet union. His mother later betrayed her husband, and went with the uncle - so we can't expect him to play in a sloppy wishy- washy manner.
saintdracula 4 years ago 2
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now I am very said.
maybe he had to choose another profession... blue-helms?
marcelmombeek 4 years ago
Well he chose to be a pianist (luckily for us) and he left a huge mark on piano tradition, along with an inspirational treasure of live and studio recordings, which gave the opportunity for attention-seekers to criticize such a giant. I'd be thankful if I were you :)
beethoven4ever 4 years ago
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I stay with my opinion: this is NOT making music, this is just playing the notes.
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
Why do you hate all Richter performances? He is one of the greatest in my mind (along with Cziffra =P).
georgecziffra 4 years ago
I do not hate all performances of richter, only those where he does not play with his heart but only with his fingers, and most of his performances are this way... see "enigma",there he admits that he played most of the time not good... only at the end of his live I had a feeling that he was a musician... but that was at the end of his life. He even say that: "i began to play more freely and took attention for my tone..."
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
Richter always played with his heart. For me he has been the pianist of the 20th entury, no doubt. I recommend you stop listening him playing and re-try when you grow 15 years older than now. You´ll never find excess or magic tricks in him, which for me makes music more and more interesting. He is like Brahms or Mozart, the emotions are hiden, never obvious but insinuated, it is music for either old people or old music lovers. Regards.
zerlina77 4 years ago 5
People have criticizing Richter for playing 10/10 technique and 0/10 with soul, which is of course a lie. Especially when he plays one of the chopin etudes. Let me ask you a question, if you were playing chopin at lightspeeed, would you be able to have time to pause for the 'lyrical, melodic' qualities of music?
saintdracula 4 years ago 3
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I would not play chopin at light speed, that's just the point. He plays it at light speed because he has no imagination to play it with "lyrical or melodic" qualities.
marcelmombeek 4 years ago
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Great comment. Richter plays like the Pharisee he actually is. They ALL play like that that.
u2bmetub 4 years ago
Richter beleived you are to follow the score exactly, which you may find unoriginal, but it how he played. However, he still, i think, played with heart and a commanding tone. For his etudes, chopins tempo marking were very fast, hence the speed here
serox901 4 years ago 3
SHUT UP DEGENERATES you realize that tempos have changed over time. Life is goes at a much quicker pace now. a Presto in Bach's time is not the same as a Presto today so shut up about him speeding up all of you. His tempo is perfect and so is his portrayal of the cahracter of this piece go study then come back and for now keep your tongues behind your teeth animals.
olaga246 3 years ago 5
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I suppose you went not long to school, let me guess: basic education? any way, your knowledge of interpreation is far away, if you like this, well you like probably also pollini. non-music!!!
marcelmombeek 3 years ago
Dear Marcel;
So, how long did you study? ;)
truecrypt 3 years ago
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longer then richter as it come's to studing and thinking about an interpretation.
And my previous comment on study-time was ofcourse cynic mentioned...
marcelmombeek 3 years ago
Dear Marcel;
I think you are wrong on your first assuption (about "studying and thinking") and correct about about the rest.
As a pianist and musician you should hold yourself to a higher standard.
truecrypt 3 years ago
you mortal how dare you judge this GOD i'd like to see you climb mount olympus. in other words you have nothing on richter please give it up he is accepted world wide as one of the greatest pianists in the history of mankind so please keep your stupidity to yourself
olaga246 3 years ago
DISGRACE: richter is respected world-wide as one of the greatest pianists in the history of piano. Heinrich Nehaus calls him a genius and you stand here and unload your uneducated filth-worthless. You are worthless go listen to something simpler like The Beatles this kind of music is not for you.
olaga246 3 years ago 5
maybe its because all you do is watching the video. next time, try to LISTEN to the music, then maybe ull hear it.
Bouboule52 4 years ago
Lets see you play better than this. You're just like all the other big gobbed people. You have no right to criticize maestro richter.
saintdracula 4 years ago
What is the Chopin tradition really? Carried on by such pupils too, who very likely were only able to play the easier nocturnes, preludes and such - on a modest level of skill and talent. He must have had some real virtuoso level pupils too. I don't know. Chopin-Liszt-Cortot,there is a link for sure.
joumietko 4 years ago
does anyone know where to get the full recital on video?
sviatoslavberezovsky 4 years ago
No.
mltube 4 years ago
What a genius!!!
iguarni 4 years ago 4
What a great pianist. He's is a mankind's patrimonium!!!!!
iguarni 4 years ago 7
matthew that's foour words:D
achtanabl 4 years ago
would someone please do me - or maybe us - a big favor and summarize a translation for what he says in the beginning?
ibclappin 4 years ago
This is from the "Enigma" movie. There are sub-titles there. Richter complains about deteriorating pitch and that he practically stopped playing because of that. But it has nothing to do with this performance, which took place 7 years earlier.
mltube 4 years ago
absolutely amazing, favoriting NOW
feste312 4 years ago
OK OK OK OK wait listen to musicgolod's fucking video the kid has a lot of promise and people fucking ripped him up! ?????????? IDK y they do that to the kid! MUSICGOLOD is his name
4444matthew4444 4 years ago
it's not the kid himself it's someone publicizing for the kid and will be eating the kid's money later. i've also seen a myspace profile commercialing for a "special child" like this one. i think the only advertising a pianist should need would be done by his/her performance because believe me; if the kid's good enough, people WILL be talking about him.
ibclappin 4 years ago
i understand that the heartful people within the financial liberty of contributing to the kid's path noticing the kid is a positive thing to happen, but the shady and cruel system of marketing forces the desire to question the whole structure every time.
ibclappin 4 years ago
rachmaninoff and liszt xD
maaan chopin is just freakin amazing. and richter plays this just awesome. plays everything awesome really......... especially chopin etude op10 no4 =O
tuzziez 4 years ago
I would say Mozart and Rachmaninoff
fullyfatty 4 years ago
Oh My God...! Frederick Chopin, you are one of maybe three people from the past that I'd like to meet.
NYCBG 4 years ago
I shall pass that message on my next time travel. He will be thrilled, I am sure. Who are the other two (just in case if I run into them by some chance)? :-)
mltube 4 years ago
Listen to "Elegy" composed and performed by Grant Foster. It is such a moving piece of music. The emotioms are so well displayed.
1124755 4 years ago
meraviglioso!
jordanos81 4 years ago
Superb! I gave an AWESOME!
rnie85 4 years ago
superb. Just brilliant
bilibalala 4 years ago
one of the best pieces of chopin
likeclassicmusic 4 years ago
Of course it's not fair. No all of us have as much talent as this guy.
Just like a guy with IQ of 60 working really hard while a guy with 160 is slacking off, wasting his HIGH IQ abilities that the IQ 60 clearly deserves more.
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
*rubbish what has IQ to say to anything? a non academic may be a GENIUS at fixing your car
*no one deserves anything
*you get what you get
**practise helps you improve!
pupniktomatoface 4 years ago 4
I love this piece!!!
Wish that I could play like that....
Its NOT FAIR!!!!
megmoni 4 years ago
Just love it, he plays very articulate. Bravo!
bellehetbees 4 years ago
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Played with the sensitivity that one exhibits when one runs over the neighbor's dog...
and then looks in the rearview mirror to make sure it was done correctly.
smithsherman 4 years ago
that's right, real passion for something you want to do really well!!!!!
pupniktomatoface 4 years ago
@rolandonavarro : yeah both richter and horowitz
@ marcelmombeekeigen : DUDE.... i'd love to see what you consider awesome =) perhaps your own playing? If so i would so love to see you play.
great piece and the way he brought out the chords using his left hand was great
nekolux 4 years ago 2
did you know that if richter played with notes it was just because of his lover sitting next to him
eomersami 4 years ago
It is unproven rumor, FYI, eomrsami. Not that there is anything wrong with it:-)
mltube 4 years ago
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Please listen to my CHopin etude!!!
IM only 11 years old!!!
MusicGolod 4 years ago
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And where is the fuckin' video? I wanna hear.
AlzateContraElPastor 4 years ago
I LISTENED AND IT WAS FANTASTIC.......Thanks for posting=]....dont let people bring you down! just remember three words in any situation of life....PEACE LOVE AND MUSIC
4444matthew4444 4 years ago
WTF look at the left hand how wide the fingers are stretched what the hell I don't think I can even reach all the notes in those stupid chords!
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
Well... Consider this is Chopin =P I'm playing one of these studies, in which I have to play a Do with my fifth finger and then a La b with my fourth finger... my hand hurts after that =P
BTW It's lovely the way this Richter guy plays the left hand, you can hear it's melody properly =D
Vahnis 4 years ago
if you can't reach all the notes of a chord.. doesnt mean you can't play the piece.;. all you do is play one note at a time real fast.. like arpeggios in a way.. thats what my amazing teacher does because she has small hands
DesireeFatso 4 years ago
Alicia de Larrocha is a good example of a great and famous pianist... who had small hands!
inteleki 4 years ago
I wrote the previous comment for
DesireeFatso
inteleki 4 years ago
The greatest of all 20th Century pianists.
rolandonavarro 4 years ago 5
so exciting a playing! so lively like fire! I wish I had a chance to be in one of richter's concert
Shaghayegh11 4 years ago
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This piece is tiring as hell.
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
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absolute boring piano playing, like much of his interpretations... he is deffinetley NOT one of the greatest...
marcelmombeekeigen 4 years ago
Instead of winter storm,it should be retitled here
"Winter Execution in lieu of Mechanical boredom."
Another totally modern & abstractly unoriginal
version of this.If we're not going to make any attempt
to play within the bounds of the living Chopin tradition,the least we could do is come up with something musical & human!
smithsherman 4 years ago
beautiful...great pianist!!!
Rawinho 4 years ago
Check out the Love Theme from Grant Foster's "War; Peace; Love" performed by Mirra Yevtich with the New Russia Orchestra. It is really something
1124755 4 years ago
who the heck talks when somebody is playing piano wtf?
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
SkiddyBlade: LOL!
YGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYG 4 years ago
It certainly takes a pianist to appreciate this kind of playing,because "pianism"is all that's offered.
If you're a musician of another instrument,a writer,a painter,or just a good old-fashioned feeling music-lover it's very unlikely you are to appreciate
this spiritually and emotionally fossilized exoskeleton.
smithsherman 4 years ago
a performer is not the sum of there parts but instead they are to be adored for the many fine examples of musicianship they've produced over their
lifetime. emotionally fossilized for this performance maybe though it sounds cruel and inhumane. you must be an angry wannabe. richter's body of work is quite remarkable. He's an old man now. Lighten up Mr. Perfect
11455RN 4 years ago 2
Smithsherman ' s obssession (infatuation ? or infatuation with Gavrilov ?) with the great Richter is a medical case
francorussie 3 years ago
richter is considered by most of the pianists of my generaton inluding ivo pogorelich ,late arthur rubinstein as a one of the greatest ,this was the best perfpormans of the 'winter storm" that i ever heard!
igormarich1968 4 years ago
i think richter was not satisfied with his performance too.
forumkesh 4 years ago
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Excellent piece, I found free sheet music for it on SheetMusicFox DOT com and absolutely love it!
pianoparadise 4 years ago
Interesting comment. Going bankrupt with ShitMusicFox Dot com, that you need to post these kind of advertorials everywhere? Hopefully YouTube is sending you a royal bill.
yvesvangelre 4 years ago
agreed.
Mumum2 4 years ago
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Right from the 1st notes it's wrong.Played on the beat by both hands simultaneously with inflexible time
in a non-gestural manner that delivers everything without surprise or mystery.This is truly a late Arte Deco fiction of Romantic Performance practice.
Not a trace of Chopin or his expression,just the physical cadavers here.
smithsherman 4 years ago
shut up, your just jealous.
bhokka 4 years ago
how esoteric please
11455RN 4 years ago
Oh God it doesn't look too fun to learn this piece...
but man awsome to see him play so well.
Jessi520 4 years ago
he was the giant under the universalists of 20 century in classical music at all. and believe me, he was one of the greatest pianists of all times also. i remember not good, but was as a child sometimes when he was playing in moscow, once i was sitting and listening to a concert of another pianist next to him, and i remember it was for me like sitting next to god
i love many pianists, like horowitz or rubinstein, like gould or affanasiev, like gilels or lipatti. but richter is still my idol
germaniwan 4 years ago
but what can i say about a pianist who play all barock until modern classic on this really extrem high level. he played bach and händel ( do not forget: many people prefer his "wohltemperiertes klavier"), beethoven, mozart, schubert(!), schumann(!!!), brahms(!), haydn (!), all russian romantic and twenty century music, french music ( you know another not spcialist who play 3 concerts from saint-saens ?), all slavish music and a lot, really a lot of chamber music...and ..and ...and
germaniwan 4 years ago
sorry for my terrible enlish
sure, richter was not a chopin specialist, but his chopin is allways extremly in a very strange way.
germaniwan 4 years ago
I had the privilege of seeing Richter in concert back in 1993. Although his performances of baroque music left a lot to be desired he was a supreme artist when it came to the romantic repertoire.
This can be clearly seen in this Chopin etude.
pagreen1966 4 years ago
Lucky you, since by then he was already winding up with his concerts. But what baroque music did he play, other than Bach? All his Bach recordings that I heard from that time, such as English and French suites, are superb.
mltube 4 years ago
Brilliant, can someone tell me how old he was, wen he played it???
Scandalli88 4 years ago
73.
mltube 4 years ago
This piece sucks to learn! I think it's the most difficult of all the etudes.
jecian1978 4 years ago
Can somebody please translate what the heck that guy was saying at the beginning?
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
wonderful!!!
8221750 4 years ago
This is like right hand excercise right?
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
not at 1:50!
jonnyboy126 4 years ago
Wonderful!
pianogirl98 4 years ago
I bet people who plays this piece would agree that your hands really really hurts when playing this... Takes a lot of practice.
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
how are we supposed to know?
SkiddyBlade 4 years ago
look at his hands they're so huge! how many notes can he reach?
libetta 4 years ago
I learned the first 20 bars of this and then gave up. Now I can see why. He seems to have huge hands, though that's not necessarily an advantage in this piece. Chopin's hands were quite small - a cast of them can be seen at the National Portrait Gallery.
sorbino9 4 years ago
I struggled with this etude and never performed it. I'm gald to see that Richter also seems to find it challenging. These videos are incredibly important. We see wonderful but imperfect performances, everybody out there keep practicing, reaching...
steinway1901 4 years ago
I love this Etude, I have to learn it after I'm done with the pieces I'm currently working on...
TxVAureole 4 years ago
Richter is fabulous! And this etude so beautyful!
Kwstello 4 years ago
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ayturksercan 4 years ago
mr pianoboyo
I m still looking for tools to measure art
play better ? bad ?
all of them are good and nobody is as Chopin or Scarlatti or Rachmaninof
If you open your eyes you will see nothing but performers
Very sad
internosil 4 years ago
There are many 'real' talents these days..but they dont sound the same as the talents of yesteryear...its odd that some people expect them to. Times have changed, people change but good music making is eternal. One has to listen with an open and attentive eye. Certainly there is a greater emphasis on accuracy and control than was common in Richters day but there are many truely great 'thinkers' and 'poets' of the keyboard out there... you just have to listen out for them.
pianoboyo 4 years ago
Thanks for your advice, pianoboyo. I guess listening with an open eye should do the trick.
mltube 4 years ago
I still find it odd that piano players unswervingly idolize Richter. Ok he was a great pianist..yes at his best he was one of the top pianists of his era. its also true to say when he was bad he was BAD. We were always taught in conservatory 'a pianist is only as good as his last performance' , I have no pianistic idol - attempt I learn from all..there are many college students who give as good and better performances of this study.
pianoboyo 4 years ago
I imagine that, like Horowitz, 'you had to be there.' There is so much more to an enthralling performance than the music. There is history, atmostphere, electricity, emotion and of course sound. I suspect Richter had a 'sound' that had to be heard live to be fully appreciated.
pianovideo 4 years ago
try to find a real talent nowadays
internosil 4 years ago
what a genious.
he was at 74 years old at this recording. if you watch the legendary documentary of bruno monsangeon (a violonist and director, whom mostly worked with glenn gould) called "richter the enigma" you saw that
richter told his retirement story with this piece.
he said at the end of enigma " i have lost sense of my pitch, i am retired now" and listened a version of this etude he said "i am not making up". after this explanation we watched this video, what a sinematic efect.
gandalfs80 4 years ago
It's interesting how my teacher(Juliard phd btw) told me how Richter didn't necessarily have great technique, but playing from 'heart' to cover it up. Same goes for Rubinstein.. Then she told me on the other hand Ashkenazy and Pollini were PERFECT.
supreheeeeeee 4 years ago
your teacher from JUILLIARD was on crack :)
Boxingglovestud 4 years ago
Ashkenazy and Pollini having better technique than Richter? What joint was your Julliard teacher snorting?
lyhpcl 4 years ago
She's actually retired, got her doctorate degree and was a teaching faculty at Juliard. I love Richter's playing, but I agree with my teacher's view.
supreheeeeeee 4 years ago
Crap, keep misspelling JULLIARD
supreheeeeeee 4 years ago
JUILLIARD come on
supreheeeeeee 4 years ago
Sometimes Richter lapsed into a historic style of
playing that was prevalent before the rise of the
Anti-Expressionist Conservatory Originalist movement
told pianists to play only dryly and perfectly...
but not expressively or with interest...When
Richter has an antique relapse I like him.However
I prefer Pachmann,Godowsky's,and Rosenthal's recordings of this.
smithsherman 4 years ago
brilliant, I'm speechless...
xklamation 4 years ago
wasn't he wearing glasses during the performance and then they dissapeared after he got up and bowed.
advarcher 4 years ago
you can see him taking them off as he took the sheetmusic off the stands
achilless 4 years ago
oh..
advarcher 4 years ago
keep in mind, volodos is young, only been playing since '87... he's got plenty of time to catch up... and surpass.
petethepianist 4 years ago
In my estimate he needs about a thousand years to surpass Richter, so let's wish him long and happy life.
mltube 4 years ago
That's the most amazing thing I've ever heard!
Actavia 4 years ago
i just got the Same Etude and ll try learn it like Richter, he is Amazing
Bashibozuk 4 years ago
Amazing!
ihrtmusic12334 4 years ago