Robert Schumann - Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13

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  • - Composer: Robert Schumann (8 June 1810 -- 29 July 1856)
    - Performer: Sviatoslav Richter
    - Year of recording: 1971
    Symphonic Etudes ("Etudes in the form of variations") for piano [version 2], Op. 13, written between 1834-1836.
    00:00 - Theme - Andante
    01:36 - Etude I (Variation 1) - Un poco più vivo
    02:41 - Etude II (Variation 2) - Andante
    05:18 - Etude III - Vivace
    06:28 - Etude IV (Variation 3) - Allegro marcato
    07:29 - Etude V (Variation 4) - Scherzando
    08:34 - Posthumous variation I - Andante, Tempo del tema
    10:11 - Posthumous variation II - Meno Mosso
    12:19 - Posthumous variation III - Allegro
    13:50 - Posthumous variation IV - Allegretto
    16:33 - Posthumous variation V - Moderato
    19:12 - Etude VI (Variation 5) - Agitato
    20:06 - Etude VII (Variation 6) - Allegro molto
    21:16 - Etude VIII (Variation 7) - Sempre marcatissimo
    23:44 - Etude IX - Presto possibile
    24:33 - Etude X (Variation 8) - Allegro con energia
    25:43 - Etude XI (Variation 9) - Andante espressivo
    28:04 - Etude XII (Finale) - Allegro brillante (based on Marschner's theme)
    Schumann's contributions to the literature of the piano etude, a genre just beginning to blossom in the middle nineteenth century at the hands of Chopin and Liszt, came in three isolated, extremely productive bursts, after which he abandoned the genre forever. (It is perhaps no coincidence that Schumann was also forced to abandon hopes for a performing career after permanently crippling the fourth finger of his right hand during the early 1830s.) Schumann's earliest such effort, the Studies on Caprices of Paganini Op. 3 (1832), is at best little more than a preliminary essay toward the later, altogether more successful Concert Etudes on Caprices of Paganini, Op. 10 (1833). Even this second set of Paganini-inspired works, however, cannot compare with Liszt's parallel achievement, the Grandes études de Paganini (1851). But with the 12 Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13 (1834, rev. 1852), Schumann achieved a remarkable level of expressivity and technical achievement that has made the work a perennial if digitally formidable recital favorite.
    The 12 etudes of Op. 13 originally numbered 18; however, Schumann found the set so exhausting for the pianist that he removed five of the etudes prior to publication, both lessening the work's demands and streamlining its architecture. Johannes Brahms selected five of the additional six etudes for publication during the 1890s, and these 'posthumous variations' have since joined the original 12 in many performances and recordings, like this recording by Richter.
    Schumann also referred to the Symphonic Etudes as "Etudes en forme de variations" (Etudes in the form of variations), and it is largely to this enhanced degree of musical connectivity that the work owes its success. The theme upon which most of the variations are based was composed by Baron von Fricken, an amateur musician and father of Ernestine von Fricken, Schumann's onetime fiancée. The third and ninth etudes bear a much weaker relationship to the theme than do their companions, while the finale is based upon different material altogether.
    The theme, in C sharp minor, is infused by an atmosphere of tragedy, effectively built up into a kind of sepulchral march in the first etude-variation. The second etude is in rolling nocturne style, while the third, marked Vivace, draws upon energetic staccato textures. The fourth is a canon at the octave that uses the first measure of the Baron's theme but soon digresses. The fifth etude is also cleverly imitative, built on impish dotted rhythms (and, for a change, finishing in E major rather than in C sharp minor), while the sixth etude is a study in syncopation. The seventh etude, which like the fifth moves to E major at the end, is quick-witted and repetitive, finishing with a crescendo and a flurry of finger work. The eighth etude employs a thinner texture but is filled with intricate ornamentation. The ninth etude, a scherzo of sorts marked Presto possibile (as fast as possible), is one of the most challenging of the set; the theme is present only in the vaguest outline. The tenth etude is articulate and humorous, the eleventh the only one cast in a key other than C sharp minor; its grim key of G sharp minor and foreboding left-hand texture take the listener into the despairing depths of Schumann's craft. Etude No. 12, the finale, is cast in the altogether brighter key of D flat major, and employs a theme from an opera by Heinrich Marschner as its basic material; its joyful dotted rhythms and Allegro brillante atmosphere make for an appropriately exciting conclusion.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 338

  • @sama.4471
    @sama.4471 3 роки тому +39

    The variation starting at 21:17 is absolutely devastating, heart-wrenching stuff. Schumann pouring his heart and soul into the music

    • @calebhu6383
      @calebhu6383 10 годин тому

      Not only that, but it's in the style of the French Overture. Particularly sounds like the overture to Handel's Messiah which would have been being revived around this time.

  • @joselopes2293
    @joselopes2293 2 роки тому +24

    When you add a Symphonic Etudes,, that although are true masterpieces, played by one of the greatest pianist of our time, fabulous and divine music naturally emerges. This compositions are of an incredible beauty that certainly does not let us remain indifferent, touching our sensibility deeply. What a amazing recording that gives us moments of deep and true pleasure.

  • @k4ir0s
    @k4ir0s 7 років тому +97

    This may be my favorite piano piece of all time. I've been listening to it nearly every day for the past few weeks. It's so hauntingly beautiful. The posthumous variations that start at 13:50 bring tears to my eyes.. each time the tempo comes close to reaching a hopeful climax it suddenly comes to a halt and falls back into melancholy and despair.

  • @orgyenzopa
    @orgyenzopa 7 років тому +166

    I have to say that EVERY single variation is a masterpiece of form and content. Bravo Schumann for making our lives brighter.

    • @majabugarski386
      @majabugarski386 2 роки тому +7

      Sviatoslav Richter ...

    • @aldoringo439
      @aldoringo439 2 роки тому +6

      Why are half of great composers barely known? Or at least badly underrated.

    • @Alix777.
      @Alix777. Рік тому +1

      Because people are lazy and listen to the same old pieces by Chopin and Liszt

    • @antoinezygfryd
      @antoinezygfryd 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Alix777. "OLD pieces by Chopin"?? jesus christ! you are a fanatic

    • @Alix777.
      @Alix777. 10 місяців тому +1

      @@antoinezygfryd Que voulez-vous dire par là ? Chopin et sa musique glutineuse m'ennuie profondément, de même que Bach ou Beethoven, très surestimés à mon sens, surtout Beethoven. On devrait cesser de jouer tous ces compositeurs passéistes, ou la musique classique mourra. J'ai fait un tour dans vos favoris, c'est vous le fanatique dans cette histoire.

  • @marco119w7
    @marco119w7 5 років тому +37

    The posthumous variation 5 is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.

    • @aidengregg
      @aidengregg Рік тому +6

      It recalls the final variation of the Ghost Variations.

  • @paulchristopher2135
    @paulchristopher2135 5 років тому +47

    No question that this is one of the greatest pianistic monuments ever composed. Amazing score on so many levels. Thank you for posting with the scrolling score!

  • @GreerFried
    @GreerFried 5 років тому +46

    I like every variation/etude of this piece. But especially all of Etude 3 (5:19), Etude 5 (7:30), Posthumous Variation 5 (16:34), Etude 7 (20:06), everything from Etude 9 to the end (23:45), especially in Etude 11 from 27:14-17:30, and in the Finale especially 29:47-30:01 and 32:04-32:18.
    Basically the whole thing.

  • @TheSteveBerlin
    @TheSteveBerlin 6 років тому +22

    Thank you for posting this fine performance from Richter, with the score. Schumann is complex, tender, dramatic, gentle, insistent, glorious, and dramatic. Such a vigorous piece of music, one of my favorites of the 19thC.

  • @kimiarafieian
    @kimiarafieian 6 років тому +137

    Time stamps for app users:
    00:00 - Theme - Andante
    01:36 - Etude I (Variation 1) - Un poco più vivo
    02:41 - Etude II (Variation 2) - Andante
    05:18 - Etude III - Vivace
    06:28 - Etude IV (Variation 3) - Allegro marcato
    07:29 - Etude V (Variation 4) - Scherzando
    08:34 - Posthumous variation I - Andante, Tempo del tema
    10:11 - Posthumous variation II - Meno Mosso
    12:19 - Posthumous variation III - Allegro
    13:50 - Posthumous variation IV - Allegretto
    16:33 - Posthumous variation V - Moderato
    19:12 - Etude VI (Variation 5) - Agitato
    20:06 - Etude VII (Variation 6) - Allegro molto
    21:16 - Etude VIII (Variation 7) - Sempre marcatissimo
    23:44 - Etude IX - Presto possibile
    24:33 - Etude X (Variation 8) - Allegro con energia
    25:43 - Etude XI (Variation 9) - Andante espressivo
    28:04 - Etude XII (Finale) - Allegro brillante (based on Marschner's theme)

  • @Schubertd960
    @Schubertd960 Рік тому +68

    05:18 The 3rd etude is probably one of the best things Schumann ever wrote. So weird and yet brilliant.

    • @PieInTheSky9
      @PieInTheSky9 Рік тому +6

      Agreed

    • @rbrilla
      @rbrilla Рік тому +3

      Ok, but same for Etude VII !

    • @serkratos1216
      @serkratos1216 Рік тому +3

      Sounds like depression, just waiting for the seconds to slowly pass , and laments in between.

    • @snorefest1621
      @snorefest1621 10 місяців тому +1

      Feels a lot like the texture of Paganini caprice 1 (this texture was adopted in Liszt's Paganini etude No.4 too)

  • @dennissalinas5862
    @dennissalinas5862 Рік тому +8

    Richter's interpretation is sublime!

  • @JanKowalski-mb7ez
    @JanKowalski-mb7ez 4 роки тому +6

    My favourite Schuman piece.

  • @kefka34
    @kefka34 7 років тому +9

    Such a great piece and Richter was amazing too.

  • @isaiasramosgarcia9771
    @isaiasramosgarcia9771 7 років тому +26

    the extrem dificult & extremely beautiful best piano work by R.Schumann

  • @JakubLebioda
    @JakubLebioda Рік тому +4

    For those who write comments like "this variation is the best in the world". I would like to share my feelings of this outstanding piece. Every variation is full of romantic spirit and schouldn't be choosen as "one of the best". For me the whole piece is one of the greatest piano pieces of the romantic period. I always back to this extraordinary performance 😊

  • @barney6888
    @barney6888 2 роки тому

    That's truly a glorious performance, rich with powerful playing. Immensely satisfying tone.

  • @brandonwootton5575
    @brandonwootton5575 2 роки тому +32

    finally found it, 28:40 is the piano sample from revolution 9 - the beatles

  • @Danihogwda
    @Danihogwda 7 років тому +5

    Posthumos variation 5 😍 those harmonics are gorgeous

  • @Mazurking
    @Mazurking 11 місяців тому +3

    Posth variation IV just got me. Completely silent. Wow. Such beauty.

  • @robertcohn8858
    @robertcohn8858 5 років тому +5

    A tour de force performance. Incredibly difficult music played with such apparent ease and beauty.

  • @numberoneolive2464
    @numberoneolive2464 5 років тому +7

    This is actually amazing.. How come I never heard these before

  • @tariktoudert3842
    @tariktoudert3842 5 років тому +1

    I am glad to meet you with this record, Schumann.

  • @sumiolin
    @sumiolin 7 років тому +2

    What an exquisite piece of music! Thanks for posting

  • @timward276
    @timward276 5 років тому +48

    Schumann wrote more difficult stretches into his music than any other Romantic composer. Just full of 10ths and even bigger stretches that you have to arpeggiate. Variation 2 is full of them, there's the crazy left-hand leaps in Variation 5, and there are those staccato 10ths in the left hand in the finale, to name just a few examples. There's a reason Henle gives this piece its top difficulty rating.

    • @calebhu6383
      @calebhu6383 5 років тому +8

      Him, and Charles Alkan. At least Liszt wrote ossias for his big stretches.

    • @majabugarski386
      @majabugarski386 2 роки тому +3

      Sviatoslav Richter divine plays

    • @happypiano4810
      @happypiano4810 2 місяці тому

      @@calebhu6383Alkan stretches are weird because often the stretch happens because of notes inside. Like for example, symphony for solo piano 4th mvt has a chord in the RH that contains F# A B E F# (pardon my spelling if I spelled it wrong). It’s within an octave, but I can hardly do it.

  • @kelvinyearwood8212
    @kelvinyearwood8212 Рік тому +1

    Incredible. The first time I've heard these, and with Richter playing them! Superb.

  • @nicholasfox966
    @nicholasfox966 2 роки тому +2

    Oh, Robert Schumann, how grateful I am that you were born and existed in the world.

  • @silzai1
    @silzai1 7 років тому +6

    Una de las mejores composiciones para piano de la Historia.

  • @SCRIABINIST
    @SCRIABINIST 2 роки тому +22

    This is one of the pinnacles of early romanticism without a doubt, with his Sonatas and Fantasy, Schumann affirms himself to be a master of the larger form.

  • @andy31793
    @andy31793 6 років тому +6

    Best piano music ever written, this is...

  • @charlesmchugh8811
    @charlesmchugh8811 7 років тому +1

    One of my all time favorites.

  • @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji
    @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 6 місяців тому

    Absolutely lovely!

  • @claraleite7547
    @claraleite7547 3 роки тому +3

    maravilhoso e eterno esses estudos! perfeito!

  • @scillaberry3409
    @scillaberry3409 7 років тому +92

    When my mum was a young woman in the 1930s, studying the piano, she told her best friend that my dad had asked her to marry him. Her friend sat down at the piano and played the last allegro brillante of this, while she sang "I knew you would, I knew you would, you silly fat old fool!" It was a standing joke in our family, but now I play it for itself.

    • @olla-vogala4090
      @olla-vogala4090  7 років тому +22

      Haha what a funny story, thanks for sharing that :) I always really like to learn about people's personal relationships with certain pieces of music.

    • @kickywicky4616
      @kickywicky4616 7 років тому +22

      OK, well, my mother as a young woman played the Moonlight Sonata in a piano recital. She was wearing one of those frothy white dresses, and at one point a bug got inside it and started running around. Her piano teacher told her later that he'd never heard the second movement played so fast in his life.

    • @Schumanna1
      @Schumanna1 7 років тому

      olla Cigala you are a crack

    • @johnstaf
      @johnstaf 6 років тому

      That's such a lovely story!

  • @jennyjang5894
    @jennyjang5894 5 років тому +8

    How superb! No words about this perfect performance..

  • @vokuvoku
    @vokuvoku 5 років тому +2

    Wow, these are really technical and demanding pieces - a challenge!

  • @soundfinder_Lee
    @soundfinder_Lee 8 років тому +4

    thank you....olla-vogala....i love it

  • @daniloberaldo570
    @daniloberaldo570 3 роки тому

    Incredible! Thank You Very Much For That!

  • @trevjr
    @trevjr 2 місяці тому +1

    Amazing work of Schumann, I think his best. So complex and such different sounds some like Scriabin. Richter is almost perfect here, I love the way he plays the repeats every so differently, very subtle. And his fantastic technique allows him to really express himself. I think this is one of the most difficult piano works ever because there are so many techniques that you have to change to in an instant. I tried to read thru this years ago but could not even get thru the slow ones because there is so much to do in every measure. Some of the rhythmic variations had such syncopations I found it hard sometimes to even follow the score. Schumann is quite underrated, such a true genius he is.

  • @georgesmelki1
    @georgesmelki1 2 роки тому +1

    Outstanding performance by Richter of this outstanding masterpiece! Thanks for sharing with the scrolling score(in Etude IX, Richter starts with a bar missing from the score!)

  • @brunolanzasant
    @brunolanzasant 8 років тому +8

    sublime

  • @antoniopizzoglio7318
    @antoniopizzoglio7318 Рік тому +1

    Stupenda composizione

  • @vrixphillips
    @vrixphillips 4 роки тому +1

    wow, that last variation and finale

  • @martinsz441
    @martinsz441 6 років тому +2

    i really really love this etudes

  • @BerrikoAndonik
    @BerrikoAndonik 2 роки тому

    Marvelous cocktail of pieces, whose first worth is to be composed as an organized system or chain of melodies which leads to converge and finish towards the monumental and final variation "Opus Posthuma", an exuberant melody, full of sympathy and humour.

  • @2929felix
    @2929felix 7 років тому

    Gratulations,
    perfectly displayed and with Richter is one of the best choices. ( Emil Gilels plays also very impressive) Thanks!

  • @oritdrimer4354
    @oritdrimer4354 9 місяців тому +3

    I absolutely adore SCHUMANN, Not my favorite piece of him, but it's still pretty good.

  • @thomasbirkhahn9616
    @thomasbirkhahn9616 8 місяців тому +2

    ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS MUSIC!!! SCHUMANN IS A GOD!!!

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np Рік тому

    Gracias 🇮🇷. Bellísimo !!!!!bien hecho. 🌹🎹🥇

  • @davidecarlassara8525
    @davidecarlassara8525 11 місяців тому +3

    I'm not the biggest Schumann fan but this is incredible

  • @ziegunerweiser
    @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому +1

    Just so happened to have stumbled on to Gilies DVD he plays this and Brahms op116 have been my top two piano compositions for a while now, well worth getting as an alternate recording.

    • @ziegunerweiser
      @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому +1

      Err that is Gilels

    • @ziegunerweiser
      @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому

      Just got my hands on the Gilels DVD every note is wonderful from beginning to end.

  • @odyssey3874
    @odyssey3874 Рік тому +3

    In my opinion No. 11 is also amazing! Schumann has really a lot of awesome piano works!

  • @Forgetit2697
    @Forgetit2697 6 років тому +5

    This is one of those works where words simply do not suffice.

    • @Forgetit2697
      @Forgetit2697 6 років тому

      Posthumous variation IV - Allegretto 13:50
      Posthumous variation I - Andante, Tempo del tema 8:34
      Posthumous variation III - Allegro 12:19

  • @malcolmledger176
    @malcolmledger176 5 років тому +1

    STUPENDOUS!

  • @saintansele
    @saintansele 7 років тому +1

    Slobodyanik played the posthumous No ll for an encore in Los Angeles many years ago, I was in the audience. The LA times critic didnt know this piece, guessed it was Scriabin. People were enchanted & I decided to learn this myself & played it many times for enjoyment. I had the Ashkenazy record but didnt let his excellence deter me. It was at UCLA, decades ago.

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np Рік тому

    Gracias por ponerlas 🇮🇷 México.

  • @VonDivaTheRebel
    @VonDivaTheRebel 8 років тому +4

    So breathtaking!.. Schumann was definitely the black sheep among other Romantic Era composers when it came to composing music.

    • @lt6jam
      @lt6jam 7 років тому

      DeVonte Glass

  • @chaikagome9725
    @chaikagome9725 2 місяці тому

    Excellent!

  • @nikol4y.l
    @nikol4y.l 5 років тому +5

    Loving the canonic motion in var. III - brings Franck to mind.

  • @goof260
    @goof260 7 років тому +1

    As a novice piano player teaching ones self to play, this is wonderful, being able to see the music and hear its interpretation by accomplished pianists! A new found youtube treasure. Thank you.

  • @renanmonteiro5261
    @renanmonteiro5261 2 роки тому +3

    I have no word to describe how marvelous this is.

  • @jtwolfe4693
    @jtwolfe4693 5 років тому +15

    Schumann’s greatest work for the piano

    • @musiclover148
      @musiclover148 5 років тому +1

      So much better than his sonatas, which I don't care for much, at all. Many pianists revere the C Major Fantasy, which is also wonderful, but I prefer the Symphonic Etudes. I came to know the work from John Browning's recording.

    • @raymondgood6555
      @raymondgood6555 2 роки тому +1

      Symphonic etudes #1, Davidsbundlertanze #2!!

    • @Niemand3566
      @Niemand3566 Рік тому +1

      Kreislerianer No 1

  • @1blairt
    @1blairt 2 роки тому

    Var. 5 is simply out of this world.

  • @michelecarotenuto9200
    @michelecarotenuto9200 7 років тому +2

    Infinito!

  • @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji
    @CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji 6 місяців тому +2

    5:18 this recalls Paganini's first caprice

  • @johanphillipsvlogs2197
    @johanphillipsvlogs2197 6 років тому +109

    33:29 is the reversed piano loop in revolution 9

  • @stepanstudilov2139
    @stepanstudilov2139 Рік тому +7

    Для Викторины:
    Тема - 0:00
    Этюд 1 - 01:36
    Этюд 2 - 02:41
    Этюд 3 - 05:18
    Этюд 8 - 21:16
    Этюд 11 - 25:43
    Этюд 12 - 28:04

  • @brianbernstein3826
    @brianbernstein3826 6 років тому +3

    an absolute masterpiece

  • @aschellerando
    @aschellerando Рік тому +2

    Here to familiarise myself to this piece in anticipation of Kate Liu’s performance this Saturday at the 14th International Royal Kraków Piano Festival!

  • @ziegunerweiser
    @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому +9

    Just got 2 disks of Richter playing nothing but Haydn sonatas on the Decca label, I took a chance not knowing how good it would be, it's absolutely wonderful, can't recommend them enough.

    • @olla-vogala4090
      @olla-vogala4090  8 років тому +1

      +scottbos68 Thanks, I'll check them out!

    • @ziegunerweiser
      @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому +3

      I was reading a review at Amazon to see what other people were saying about these recordings and one person said I liked it alot more than I thought I would, that is exactly what I was thinking. I remember reading from his book when he spoke of Haydn's music and I had a suspicion the recordings would be good. I think when a performer really likes the music it comes through in the sound. I have a huge box complete recordings of all Haydn's music but I wanted to get some quality recordings of his piano sonatas so I got Richter, Ax, and Hamelin. So far I've only listened to Richter and I'm really happy I got those disks. I tell you Haydn wrote so much good music I'm glad I have the huge box of recordings of all his music. It's nice to go from piano music to string quartettes and there's so much more. I have the complete Mozart Beethoven Chopin and Brahms boxes too. These guys are too important not to have everything they did. It's kind of like only looking at part of a painting.

  • @bitchslappedme
    @bitchslappedme 10 місяців тому

    very nice recording

  • @ondinehd6889
    @ondinehd6889 5 років тому

    This one is the best!

  • @adalbertogomesdossantos4545
    @adalbertogomesdossantos4545 Рік тому +1

    É incomensurável! Cada variação é um universo musical! Simplesmente fantástico! Para o pianista é uma maratona onde ele enfrenta os mais variados desafios! Simplesmente estupendo!

  • @jczcameron
    @jczcameron 8 років тому +6

    Who else thinks that the crushed octave at 24:54 is actually an improvement on the pure?
    Gives it a slightly demonic edge, maybe unintended but as someone said a while ago a lot of Richter's bad notes sound a lot better than the 'right' notes of some others!

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np Рік тому

    Ponga anuncio fijo. 🇮🇷😘 demasiado fino. 🎹🌹 una gran obra de piano solo.

  • @alexs-zd5wv
    @alexs-zd5wv 2 роки тому +2

    Variatiunea 5 post. Este.. de la Dumnezeu direct!

  • @aschellerando
    @aschellerando 11 місяців тому

    Kate Liu brought me here. She performed an epic rendition at the Singapore Esplanade Concert Hall, 18 July 2023!

  • @umbertospaviero4350
    @umbertospaviero4350 Рік тому +1

    Schumann Is a very good composers and this piece is very incredible and depressed.

  • @musiclover148
    @musiclover148 5 років тому +11

    Richter plays most of these variations faster than I'm used to hearing them. Who am I to say he's wrong? But I feel that most of them are shown to their best advantage at slightly slower tempi. Let the music unfold in a way that allows the listener to appreciate all the details of Schumann's genius, not just its overall sweep.

    • @raymondgood6555
      @raymondgood6555 Рік тому

      I’ve been listening to Richter for 55 years. He sometimes plays pieces much faster or much slower than anyone. The 2nd prelude from book 1 of The Well Tempered Clavier is played as fast as humanly possible. The June Barcarole of Tchaikovsky is played slower than anyone. I think the fast tempo of Symphonic Etudes suits the mania that Schumann must have had when composing them.

  • @jeanmarie0733
    @jeanmarie0733 5 років тому

    Fameuse interprétation de Schumann piano !

  • @gerardbegni2806
    @gerardbegni2806 6 років тому +14

    What can we say? Richter offers us a fabulous rendering of these symphonic studies. Each study or variation is a world closed to itself, and nevertheless the theme acts as an overarching unifying factor. Richter renders that perfectly.

  • @gyeongchankim5423
    @gyeongchankim5423 5 місяців тому

    That upward scale in 17:50 is heavenly

  • @jimsammann
    @jimsammann 3 роки тому +2

    An excellent performance of an amazing piece of music. Recommend also the Pollini version, which I find marginally more melodic.

  • @ziegunerweiser
    @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому +29

    The term etude to me evokes a concept of mechanical exercise with no musical content, something you practice but do not perform in a recital. This does not sound like an exercise to me it sounds like music that I find myself enjoying. I like how each variation varies so much in feel and tempo with an almost fun/playful like attitude, I like the hints of chromaticism also that add to the character of the harmony implied. I think this is some of his better piano music and an impressive exploration into a wonderful creative mind full of imagination.
    This is another victory for Richter displaying a great deal of warmth color and emotion, I feel like I am getting to know the artist side of him through your channel. I have many of his recordings but it was not until I started to come here that I started to hear what I thought I wanted to hear from him for the first time. Somehow with an artist that iconic, I find that strange. When I think of Richter I think the guy could and did play everything but I wonder about his life and how that affected his performances, I wonder about his love life and sence of happiness and I could be wrong but I think I know the answer without looking. I think inside a storm was brewing but most of the time it just didn't come out because of events in his life and his emotions. On a technical level I think he was dead on almost all the time, playing what was written, it is the emotional aspect and display of color I often find myself questioning. For one of the first times I what he was hiding inside. I'm sorry if what I said or you don't know what I'm talking about, some of these are harsh words for what is commonly known as one of the greatest, just speaking my mind about how I feel about his playing. I actually own the box complete Decca Phillips and DG recordings, while many times I don't feel anything I do find it interesting his delivery in terms of tempo dynamics and shaping the phrase, the musical conception is always there but it wasn't until I started to come here that I started to feel something. Instead of dull greys I started to see vivid colors. Recording I think affects people differently, it can be difficult the get the right performance recorded, one day you're just not feeling it and it gets recorded the next day you play a concert and things come out better than you could have imagined. In Richter I don't think many of his recordings showed how he really played, this is one of the few I have found so far. Sorry It took a lot of words to get out what I was thinking but I finally feel like I got it done.

    • @olla-vogala4090
      @olla-vogala4090  8 років тому +3

      +scottbos68 I think I know what you mean, some of Richter's recordings I find almost unlistenable (his Ravel for example... ugh), but other recordings like this one he's just fantastic. Check out his 1961 recording of Schumann's Fantasy Op. 17 for a Richter full of colour, warmth and depth.

    • @ziegunerweiser
      @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому +2

      After spending a few months rediscovering and getting to know his piano music a little more closely I find myself in love with the fantasiestucke equally with this piece.

    • @olla-vogala4090
      @olla-vogala4090  8 років тому +1

      scottbos68
      Yes that's a very good piece too!

    • @javiertw89
      @javiertw89 8 років тому +5

      There's a documentary called "Richter: the enigma". It's on YT if you're interested, I liked it a lot.

    • @ziegunerweiser
      @ziegunerweiser 7 років тому +6

      After about 9 months of.listening to everything he wrote for piano the third sonata was actually my favorite in the end, this was my second favorite, third was kreisleriana, fourth was unexptedly intermezzo op 4 and fifth also unexpectedly was davidsbundlertanze op 6

  • @newgeorge
    @newgeorge 8 років тому +5

    totally wonderful! I've never heard these before - always suspecting they were more or less unplayable. Well they probably are - except for guys like Richter on best form. I'm guessing this was a studio performance: he did so few of these.

    • @calebhu6383
      @calebhu6383 5 років тому +5

      It's standard repertoire for concert pianists but definitely unplayable for the average pianist. Even if one can master the uncomfortable stretches and general awkwardness, there is still the huge challenge of creating a coherent musical whole within so many contrasting colors.

  • @rbrilla
    @rbrilla Рік тому +4

    My bet is that Chopin's barely hidden disrespect for Schumann was the feeling that in terms of musical quality, he was his only real competitor. This cycle (and, IMO, op. 17 and Kreisleriana) shows that Schumann was getting close (if not catching up entirely).

    • @garrysmodsketches
      @garrysmodsketches 10 місяців тому +2

      Are you joking? Schumann is much more complex, look at the textures he comes up with, look at counterpoint, richness of dissonance, etc. Chopin could've never caught up to this in a hundred years. Schumann is on another level, another league.

    • @BRNRDNCK
      @BRNRDNCK 6 місяців тому

      @@garrysmodsketchesInteresting that you assume complexity makes music better. Chopin was extending the elegance of Mozart into romanticism with an auteurist flavor. Music is better with depth, true, but not with obscurity, and much of Schumann is obscure and inaccessible to people not initiated to his very particular style.

  • @charlescxgo7629
    @charlescxgo7629 5 років тому +57

    Schumann had the richest of all music from his contemporaries. 100 characters and harmonies in a few minutes. Horribly underrated.

    • @Herodatticus
      @Herodatticus Рік тому +1

      So false
      Bloody typical

    • @oritdrimer4354
      @oritdrimer4354 9 місяців тому +3

      ​@@HerodatticusOh shut up, He was the hidden gem of Romantic music.

    • @Herodatticus
      @Herodatticus 9 місяців тому

      bravo@@oritdrimer4354

    • @Nostalgicavenue2000
      @Nostalgicavenue2000 9 місяців тому +1

      I personally like Brahms more, but yes Schumann always strikes me as this pure, stately music

    • @thomasbirkhahn9616
      @thomasbirkhahn9616 8 місяців тому +1

      Who underrates Schumann???

  • @Madaduxum
    @Madaduxum 9 днів тому

    Thick with expressive and intricate harmonies, symphonic in every way.

  • @prfabre
    @prfabre 8 років тому +5

    Why is he in such a rush? I feel we miss out on some of the sumptuous beauty of this piece.

  • @baldrbraa
    @baldrbraa Рік тому

    The short piano clip in The Beatles’ Revolution #9 is taken from the final variation of this work.

  • @leonardhall6674
    @leonardhall6674 2 роки тому +1

    Fabulous music! Never knew Schumann's keyboard music was this great! Very familiar with his exceptional chamber music. Very mature Romantic music.

    • @amiapsychopat
      @amiapsychopat 10 місяців тому +1

      i can recommend you check out the ghost variations, humoreske , kreisleriana and his piano sonatas if you haven't yet! he wrote so much amazing music for the piano but i have to agree that his chamber music is exceptional as well, the piano trio in Eb major is one of my favorite pieces ever

  • @raphg.8403
    @raphg.8403 5 років тому +8

    16:34 🎶❤

  • @johannsebastianbach3411
    @johannsebastianbach3411 7 років тому +2

    Variation 1 and 7, always my favorites.

  • @toukoudennki1130
    @toukoudennki1130 3 роки тому

    あまりに素晴らしい演奏。最初のテーマでさえ、このように神秘に響かせる演奏は皆無だとおもいます。

  • @CarmenReyes-em9np
    @CarmenReyes-em9np Рік тому

    Pianista exelente ❤️🇮🇷.

  • @user-gw2qb7ey2h
    @user-gw2qb7ey2h 5 місяців тому +1

    0:06 Тема
    1:36 1 этюд
    2:41 2 этюд
    6:28 4 этюд
    21:16 8 этюл
    25:43 11 этюд
    28:04 финал

  • @LunaLeaves
    @LunaLeaves 5 років тому +7

    I actually hear a lot of Alkan in a couple of these.
    Does anybody know of any link between Schumann and Alkan?

    • @calebhu6383
      @calebhu6383 5 років тому +7

      Schumann was often critical of Alkan, for example calling the latter's Trois Morceaux dans le genre de Pathetique a piece of "false...unnatural art ...a crabbed waste, overgrown with brush and weeds ... nothing is to be found but black on black."
      Schumann also criticized other etudes for having "weakness, vulgarity and a remarkable lack of imagination."
      However, he did praise Alkan for the work Le Mois: ""In this work we find such an excellent jest on operatic music that a better one could scarcely be imagined ...The composer...well understands the rarer effects of his instrument."
      So I'd say that Schumann wasn't a fan (probably due to his somewhat conservative tastes) but he probably held a great deal respect for him as a colleague.

  • @ziegunerweiser
    @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому +2

    Wanted to re-emphasize this one, only listening to this once or twice just didn't do it for me, excluding any Rachmaninoff and the Brahms op 116, this is my favorite thing you uploaded. The sudden changes that vary so wildly have found its way into my all time solo piano hall of fame. In a way I find it similar to Rachmaninoff's Variations on a theme of Chopin not in tonality but in how each variation is so different from one to the next. Maybe it's the concept of sudden changes and a sence of the unexpected that excites me the most, a style I describe as progressive, or progressively traditional in this case - old fationed sounds structured in a progressive style arrangement, the same way i describe the Brahms op 116. This is a sound I always knew Richter had inside him, it was really nice to finally hear him let it out.

    • @olla-vogala4090
      @olla-vogala4090  8 років тому +2

      +scottbos68 Well this is one of Schumann's best pieces for piano, even though they are only called 'etudes'... composers like him, and Rach/Scriabin/Chopin etc. knew how to transcend a mere etude to something profoundly musical, especially when situated in a set like this. Did you listen to Richter's Fantasy Op. 17 recording already? That is perhaps my favorite recording by him.

    • @ziegunerweiser
      @ziegunerweiser 8 років тому

      I found a studio recording from 1961 and didn't make it very far through that recording, then found a different recording titled first London appearance or something like that from 1961 also. It's exactly what I was talking about, the studio recording was almost unlistenable but recorded well, and the live recording was completely the opposite, a horrible recording played with incredible expression and intensity. Recording quality doesn't mean a whole lot to me its more about what notes are being played and how much meaning is between the notes. Same piece recorded the same year and one is amazing and the other I couldn't really listen to very long.

    • @camzyule007
      @camzyule007 8 років тому +2

      +olla-vogala True, they're only 'etudes', but they're 'Symphonic Etudes', so there's that huge, almost orchestral quality to them. They're also fiendishly difficult to play - Etude VI's leaps are nigh-on impossible - so to hear a master like Richter is both amazing and infuriating, because you just don't know how he can do it!

    • @camzyule007
      @camzyule007 8 років тому +1

      +olla-vogala Also, when I saw that your channel had re-appeared, this was one of the videos that I was most looking forward to, so thanks for uploading it!

    • @olla-vogala4090
      @olla-vogala4090  8 років тому +1

      Cameron Yule
      Thanks, and I'm happy that you're back!

  • @xavierlemblun8446
    @xavierlemblun8446 Рік тому

    A l homme je ne demande pas quelle est la valeur de ses lois mais bien quelle est sa valeur spirituelle.Antoine de St Exupery..
    Merci Mr Richter pour cette interpretation de Schumann...

  • @mateuszdybka4743
    @mateuszdybka4743 5 років тому +1

    30:00 and 32:17! Beautiful!

  • @pledd7139
    @pledd7139 Рік тому

    Прелесть-то какая. Именно ТАКАЯ музыка, и ничего более, мотивирует тебя заниматься по 6 часов в день

    • @ciararespect4296
      @ciararespect4296 Рік тому

      Yea but others do it far faster and with less effort so I'm not wasting my time anymore

    • @pledd7139
      @pledd7139 Рік тому

      @@ciararespect4296 вы никогда не узнаете как долго на самом деле занимается человек, и сколько усилий прикладывает. Таланта не существует. Важна лишь любовь к музыке, а не успех других людей. Мне так кажется. Я хочу сказать, что вы можете забросить занятия только если вам это не нравится. Не стоит постоянно стараться быть лучше, делайте это для себя, во имя любви к музыке