Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Concerto No. 3 (1/4)

Part 1
Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Minor Op. 37
1. Allegro Con Brio
Live recording, 1954
Cond. H. Abendroth

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• sviatoslav
• richter
• beethoven
• concerto
• piano
• classical

[grigorserg2005]

рихтер-ето мой идеал

[Sinfoniette]

Thank you for the upload, but do you happen to have the Emperor Concerto, if Richter ever recorded it. It is my second favorite Beethoven Concerto. *First is the Triple. I love that one!*

[CenaniHarun]

Esta es una performance excelente !!!

Bravo !

[billyguns2]

I have no idea how you come up with these amazing performances which I've never heard; this one is as good as it gets, featuring a brilliant, musical and stylish Richter equally partnered by a too rarely heard Maestro.

[weikko79]

He was also chided for BEING a German.

[paulostroff99]

weikko79- As was the case with Kreisleriano and other works.

[paulostroff99]

weikko79- Richter was hardly ever satisfied with his own performances-being his own severest critic. He also stated that he played for his benefit and his alone. He was his own man and often in trouble with the authorities in his own country. He was severely chided for playing a lot of Bach-a German and sworn enemy of Russia.

[weikko79]

Richter didn't think in terms of recording, but in terms of performing music -- thus it's irrelevant whether a recording of the piece of existed or whether it was just performed. Richter thought so little of recordings that he once joked that all his recordings could be destroyed, with the exception of a few that he considered acceptable.

[paulostroff99]

waikko79-Of course not. I know of no one that ever did. The point in what he said was that he believed that if something was already in his mind definitive-he believed that it should not be recorded at least by him-hence the Kreisleriano and Neuhaus. Richter was a real enigma.

[RabidCh]

Of course not. What do you think I was saying? Some people are interested in a recording and I'm just letting them know that there is none.

[weikko79]

Kreisleriana, Goldberg Variations, Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto, Rachmaninoff's 3rd Piano Concerto come to mind. But the pianist who had played them to perfection was not always Neuhaus (e. g. in the case of the Rach 3).

[weikko79]

There are no recordings of it, but that doesn't mean Neuhaus didn't play it. Do you really think Neuhaus recorded his entire repertoire?