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Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Sonata No. 1 in F minor, op. 2, no. 1 (2/3)

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Part 2
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, op. 2, no. 1
2. Adagio
3. Menuetto
Recorded in October 1976, Grand Hall of the Moscow

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  • Why don't we take a poll. I'll bet Richter wins and you can bet on Gould.

  • The thing I love most about his playing - and I have said this before - is his balance. The balance between right and left hands. The only one remotely close to him is Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. I can identify his playing from a thousand others. I have tried for seventy years and cannot come within ten million light years of him.

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  • @mal8739 Thanks for bringing my attention to the balance.

  • I love S. Richter.

  • sorry to inject politics-- I saw him play 2 times he was not lie other soviet artists who fled to "freedom" (ie money)--he would play in the smallest towns and villages in the USSR not jus Moscow or Leningrad so ordinary people could hear his great art--no matter what your politics THAT is a noble thing to do!

  • ...if you listen any prokofiev sonata by richter, then you know what i mean...here he apperas to me, to hold himself back from being to direct....whoch is very good for a second movement of this sonata.

  • this is that´s why better than gould, because richter understands the beethovenian poesie better, and the lines are better thought, and performed than the gould version. technically it is also comparable. richter has a diffirent touch on piano as gould. he actuall has more direct hit on the piano key than here, then he tries to draw the musical atmosphere romantically.

  • These pieces are especially hard for immature people to play, since it requires a lot of focus and self-control, and it's long!!!!!!!

  • I like Gould

  • Richter conveys the classical poise of this mvt perfecfly.

  • Just brilliant! 

  • I prefer Richter to Gould

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