Sviatoslav Richter plays Debussy "Suite Bergamasque" (1/2)

Part 1
Calude Cebussy - Suite Bergamasque
1. Prélude
2. Menuet
Live recording, 1960

Category:

Music

Tags:

• sviatoslav
• richter
• debussy
• Suite
• Bergamasque
• piano
• classical

[truecrypt]

@MarcelLazar

The only sure things are death, taxes... and the desire to find "mistakes" in great performance. Probably the later makes certain people "feel good" about themselves.

[WAYSMEANS]

IMHO this suite of four magnificent pieces has never gotten its just due. Sure, sure everybody has heard Claire de Lune to the point of nausea, but the prelude, menuet and passe pied are outstanding in their own right. And Claire de Lune itself is a magnificent example of impressionism that like the Adagietto to Mahler's Fifth somehow gets played in isolation and we, the listening public, stand for it. This four-part opus stands its ground against Mozart, Brahms and even Beethoven.

[9Simmo]

Lol the 2nd picture is CLASSIC! Apparently he came up with Blue Steel long before Derek Zoolander did. I love Richter even more now!

[barendschipper]

@ShipperS7 I can't agree more: haha, the complainers and their 'mistakes of life'.

Open yourself for life and enjoy... one does not have so many years here on earth,

Thanks to people like Richter our time here is really better......

Thank you truecrypt for uploding, and Shipper -name of our family in Dutch too- for posting

[barendschipper]

@ShipperS7 I can't agree more: haha, the complainers and their 'mistakes of life'.

Open yourself for life and enjoy... one does not have so many years here on earth,

Thanks to people like Richter our time here is really better......

Thank you truecrypt for uploding, and Shipper -name of our family in Dutch too- for posting

[ShipperS7]

The measure of a performer is not whether they hit all the right notes but whether, when technical mistakes are _inevitably_ made, the integrity of their interpretative structure withstands the blow. Practically everything Richter does is encased in a titanium superstructure, and in this case especially I can't see even a dent. The depth of this interpretation cannot be fathomed. You'd have to be illiterate to think that the mistakes in this performance in any way matter.

[jonnyrs1]

Shame about the bung note but this is the best tempo of any on here. Why do so many versions take it at break neck speed. Its a glorious piece to be savoured.

[awesomekapownoises23]

i love richters performance of this...

[JimmyPage97]

@truecrypt This is simply a critic...the critic offers nothing more then pure opinion. The "power" or "strength" of the words remain inside the pedigree of the critic.