Sviatoslav Richter plays Ravel "Pavane"

Maurice Ravel - "Pavane pour une Infante Defunte"
Live recording, 1954

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Music

Tags:

• sviatoslav
• richter
• piano
• ravel
• pavane

[joharper38501]

This is so beautiful, and Richter's playing transcends the coughing.

Kinda funny; anyone else notice how in the picture, it looks like his raised hand is playing a second keyboard, where the cover is reflecting?

[vietbaonv]

wow! 7 people was coughing while watching this perfect interpretation!

[seagoat790]

beautiful 

[toddaillon]

Somebody shoot that coughing bitch!

[keesvangulik127]

I can easily hear the counts within the bar. I think they should be vague, like the faded contours in an impressionistic painting.

[timoshii123]

jaime les soulier vert

[CuAnge1]

ah i kind of thought that the coughing was meant to be recorded, its kind of distracting though ithink it makes the music even sadder.

[carlosgarcialeos]

Una de las mas bellas melodías clásicas en el maravilloso piano de Richter, que más se puede pedir ante tanta perfección

[CylinderA]

I really love his pavane. It sounds like fragile.

[rachchen]

2:37. My goodness. Wow.

[edkriege]

@joharper38501 he must be playing a harpsichord in that photo ;-)

[clflem02]

I first heard of Ravel from reading The New York Review of Books this week, and I feel like I've missed out on one of the Twentieth Century's greatest composers.

Off-topic, but you should really check out the New York Review. That magazine rocks! :)