Sviatoslav Richter plays Pictures at an Exhibition (1/4)
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richter always rocks!!!
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If anyone has a chance please listen to Barry Douglas' performance of it. (1985 Tchaikovsky Contest winner).
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another piece of art destroyed
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I got this recording because people I respect raved about it. It took me a while to really appreciate it. I now think it is one of the greatest live performances of anything ever recorded.
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I was (pleasantly) surprised when a violin professor at my university said that he felt the piano version is the best rendition of this piece, over all the orchestrations he is familiar with, including the legendary Ravel. He was concert master also of the orchestra at the summer festival I attended, and they performed the Ravel orchestration. I agree with him though, it took a while, but I now believe the original piano version is the best. :)
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@awake87 yes I agree, but still amazing!
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This is my favourite recording of the Pictures and some consider it to be the greatest of all time. I have listened to it from when I was a young child. Here it appears without the background noise and coughing in the original. It sure beats the worn old version I had on tape.
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Unpleasent or not, the tempo of the first promenade creates a fascinating efect when the first picture appears.
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.the first promenade it' just TOO FAST! I love Richter, but this is unpleasant.
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hey I am getting so sick and tired of all those people with comments like " he played it too fast " etc etc very tiring to have to read from somebody who has the audacity, nay, stupidity to second guess the most pre-emiment keyboard artist of the entire 20th cenntury
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He's just noodling it all down in the same speed. As if he's in a hurry for lunch
GreggaryPeccary 3 years ago
Just like that?
Did you have a chance to listen the rest?
truecrypt 3 years ago 7