Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven "Hammerklavier" (3/6)

Part 3
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major, opus 106, "Hammerklavier"
3. Adagio sostenuto
Live recording, 1975

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• sviatoslav
• richter
• beethoven
• sonata
• piano
• classical
• Hammerklavier

[Trickme10]

So...there is a God

[clipwip]

This is possibly the greatest Agagio in the entire repetoire. Certainly it is my favorite!

[smalltalkingchicken]

@jcalli66 Any piano player that has devoted the year or so to learning the hammerklavier will know exactly what you are talking about in this movement. As others have mentioned, anyone that does not play the piece will be less likely to know precisely the passage you mean. There is nothing truly like it.

[haxxoromer]

@jcalli66 Actually, you can. But the people who you want to identify the passage probably don't understand what you mean. Just call it a passage in Hammerklavier sonata mov 3rd. By the way, In my opinion you can call it. There is a mark on this passage "espressivo". You can also try to identify it "espressivo passage on Hammerklavier sonata mov 3rd." But as I said they probably don't understand. Good luck ^_^ . Have a great day!

[jcalli66]

Question for all the real musicians and Beethoven experts out there (I'm just an amateur long-time fan with minimal piano-playing skill). I've always wondered - does that passage at approximately 8:20 -10:00 have a name- some sort of moniker to identify it? I have always thought it one of the most beautiful and moving snippets of piano composition ever created...

[jcalli66]

Englishman John Russell's poignant observation of Beethoven composing in 1820 not long after this was published: "When playing very piano, he often does not bring out a single note. He hears it himself in the 'mind's ear'. While his eye and the almost imperceptible motion of his fingers, show that he is following the strain in his own soul through its dying gradations, the instrument is actually as dumb as the musician is deaf".

[prinzparsiphal]

@JoEbYX A FRIGHTENING Neapolitanischer Sextakkord can be found at the end of the song "Der Doppelgaenger" from "Schwanengesang" by Franz Schubert.-

C-Major in b-minor ! Check it !

[prinzparsiphal]

@JoEbYX Also listen to the (almost too many) Neapolitans in the first movement of the moonlight sonata.-

[JoEbYX]

@prinzparsiphal Another very powerful use of the Neapolitan sixth is at the end of the Dies Irae of Mozart's Requiem.

[prinzparsiphal777]

@iguarni 2 minutes are missing.

[iguarni]

@clipwip cut off probably. Beethoven is a mankind's genius!

[prinzparsiphal777]

These are just the notes written down.-Imagine what the deaf man heard inside his head !