Sviatoslav Richter: Schubert Sonata A major 1st mvt. 1/2

Sviatoslav Richter plays Franz Schubert´s Sonata in A, D 664, Op. posth. 120, 1st movement

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Music

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• classical
• sviatoslav
• Richter
• schubert
• piano

[ipublica]

Can you tell me in which year was this performance? Thanks. Pierre

[samsonno]

1978 I think.

[KennYWooD2]

While I agree with you about the A major sonata here, your position that Schubert, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Brahms are (or can be) all boring, speaks volumes about the depth of your understanding. Hopefully as you mature so will your insight and you'll realize how foolish you once were to make such asinine statements.

[kantorlive]

" I hope this helps! " No, conventional rules are not helpful. Maybe playing by heart was the.. standard , times are changing! Richter was a wonderful example that it works very well with the music. So he was able to do several recitals with different programs following each other thinking only on the structure of the music and not on the damned memory. People wake up! Be free! Try to make interesting programs, without being to conventional. Everybody as he likes it, with and without music...

[60okka]

@KennYWooD2 perfect adjective you extracted from somewhere: asinine

[kassianik1]

Richter: my favorite pianist.

Schubert sonata in A major: my favorite sonata of Schubert.

What a combination!

[JayMalone]

richter is late with the notes -- i do appreciate his passion though

[cagrisert1]

@KlassikFan2007 what the hell is philosophical depth in a piece ??



[superbemaison]

@uhartchristian You are absolutely right-only music is the issue.

R said he disagreed to public watching him play.That is why he played in darkness.

We understood each other.

No matter if he plays with or without music-sound is the most important!!!

[uhartchristian]

@superbemaison I understand what you wanted to tell us. I just would say that its not important if he did play by heart or with sheets as only the result is important. There were not so good recordings with and without sheets and very good ones with and without sheets.... So what does it matter today how he did it.... What is interesting for example is that he excused himself on one record sheet to have played a wrong note !!!

[superbemaison]

@uhartchristian

Of course you are right:I am fully aware of how many sheets R read during his career, don't you worry.

But did many Richter lovers know that he had played WITH SHEETS far more many times than we ALL thought(even myself) even in his earlier years????

That is what was meant to be stated!

[uhartchristian]

@superbemaison I just would like to know if you are aware how many music sheets richter did perform? no other pianist did that much different music performances . so don t you think sometimes he had the right to do it with the sheets? I think it was good and there were ear reasons also for it. The pianos were not tuned to his absolute ear so he didn t hear in his inner ear the piece in the same tonality.

[uhartchristian]

@ForgetJosh what does it mean a standard. there is no standard , an artist is free to do as he likes !!!

if the public or the manager does not like, well its another problem, but an artist is free to chose what he wants to do and how otherwise he gets a slave of the concert system and the money around....

[uhartchristian]

@ForgetJosh Richter had problems with his perception of what he heard. as the pianos went up a lot during the time he gave recitals he heard the music sheets more low than the actual sound. he actually heard in his ear the music score a half tone lower and this disturbed him. so he took the music sheets to be sure not to make mistakes... he had an absolute ear !!!!