Schumann Toccata
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There is a version on YouTube of Richter playing this demonically fast coming in at 6'40"
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3:29 "Boy! Rid me of these decrepit glasses!"
I do not care for the timbre of this Yamaha piano but maybe it adheres more to the late 19th century sound ideal.
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Did Robert perhaps write this for his beloved wife, I wonder? Was he angry with her?
It's pretty fab, in any case. Lots and lots of notes, but very musical. He himself surely could not have played it, with his splayed hand, eh?
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Interestingly, Richter thinks even playing at that speed is too fast.
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I don't know how people can begin to judge this performance. The sound quality is too low. I mean, the sound quality is low on all Youtube videos, but especially this one. A different Richter performance is more listenable: /watch?v=PyqH5Qs6FvI
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His performances of this work are just one of the most incredible things in musical history. The combination between forcefulness and exquisite shaping of the themes is just a wonder. Complete genius, and a masterpiece of a reading!
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Toccata' originally comes from 'toccare', which means 'to touch'.
ToccatA is the female passive form of something which is touched, nothing more.
Later it became a 'pièce de bravoure', using lots of notes and a strict rhytm.
However, we recognize the poet Schumann in the short melody , he repeats 5 times.
In my opinion, no one understood this better than the older Gilels.
Therefore, shouldn't the tempo be based on that melody, rather than on empty 'notes' ?
Cordially,
G. Dehoux.
geertdehoux 2 years ago 10
All that means is that if music were an athletic contest, Barrere would beat Richter in the "Schumann Toccata event." Except music isn't an athletic contest, and Richter gets a lot more beauty and meaning out of this difficult piece than Barrere does, and possibly more than anyone.
priscianusjr 2 years ago 5