Richter - Liszt's Sonata
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The Richter Scale actually measures the earthquakes caused by Sviatoslav's playing.
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@marcelmombeekpiano: I wil have to report you to Youtube to keep you IP adress and block you from coming here.
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2 people...... oh wait these jokes aren't funny
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This is just a practice of course, and at the end he says that it's no good, in a longer version of this recording... I'd like to hear the final version of this, and for people to critisize an unpolished performance like that is just wrong. There's a video of him rehearsing Brahms' 2nd concerto and he's obviously not even trying there, and so many people critisize him there as well, but have they listened to the recording made with the Chicago orchestra?
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@712Stephen I am just repeating what I read in Bruno Monsaigneon's interviews with Richter.
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@705JRC Having absolute pitch doesn't hinder a musician from modulating, because they aren't just playing it by ear. They're playing it from muscle memory, from studying it, from toiling for many hours on phrasing and from shaping their playing to compliments the piece's structure. He would know from working on it what the modulations are without needing to rely on pitch recognition.
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@712Stephen I thought he played from the score because his perfect pitch started to go out of tune as he aged, and he started modulating to the wrong key areas, etc. Can you imagine even having a problem like that?
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@BBoyPure According to his own words in the "Enigma" documentary/biography, he played with the score because it was quite impossible to remember every instruction marked therein. He wanted to perform the music exactly as it was written, so he brought the score. He found playing by memory inadequate.
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Well, Richter did have several memory lapses during his late years. And therefore he lost confidence playing pieces without the score.
I didn't know you had heard Liszt's performance of this piece. Could you link it for me as well, I'd be very interested?
weikko79 2 years ago 21
I think weikko was being sarcastic... lol
cfwpiano 2 years ago 13