I play it at that speed and it sounds ridiculous. He plays it at that speed and it sounds like music from another planet. His SOUND is just beyond description!!
Richter is one of the very few who repeat the exposition here (7:53). And that, despite playing it about 50% slower than most others. I guess they all think this sonata is too long? But when Richter reaches the end of the exposition and returns to the beginning, it is one of the truly magical moments in his recording. It's hard to explain for me, but the first time it's like living through an experience as a little kid, and the repetition is like looking back at those events with the experience of an adult. And when the recapitulation comes at the end of the first movement, it is like an old man on the deathbed thinking one last time of those very events. I've never heard anyone else able to tell this story the way Richter did. To me, this is unsurpassable!
There is an interview where he comments on performers habit of ignoring composer instructions to repeat sections. I love that he always honours the composers wishes in this regard. Whenever I see a pianist perform and they do not play repeats I write them a letter expressing my dissapointment and frustration, I will complement them on their playing but I want to convey to them that the respeat is paart of the song, not some superfluous extra.
Richter is a genius and no one will ever understand or grasp the depth of the music he has played and given us over the wonderful years of his life. A soviet, who many wouldve never seen in the world if it wasent for the beauty of music and having it shared. Bless his soul, he is definatly one of the greatest in history.
Repeats are essential: they change the nature of the musical fact in case they are not being played. As a consequence, when they are executed, it produces a breath that developes throughout the piece. It all stems from a genuine understanding of the composition.
I don't know why this music is shaking my heart. Schubert, was not a scope of my interest until recently, but Richter brought me into it, the deep sky of his world. This is just beautiful.
Richter's performance of Schubert is always special. He always plays Schubert with a cautious attitude.The beautiful piano sound that rings his soul always makes me cry. It was such a beautiful performance.
What an amazing mysterious interpretation ?! How he could maintain such a irresistible flow is truly magical. Thank you, you experience Schubert differently with Richter.
I've been listening to the masterpiece for about two weeks. However, I am hungry for listening to it again and again. It touches some deep strings of my soul.
Unter all den Schubert-Sonaten soll diese Richters liebste gewesen sein. Im weiten Vergleich weiß ich auch keinen anderen, der sie so konzentriert und intensiv und ausdrucksvoll spielt wie er.
Schubert here seems to be on the same spiritual plane as Beethoven in his late piano sonatas and quartets - that feeling of hushed reverence, of prayerful utterance that is beyond words and points to the infinite
With every note & the opening tempos, Schubert paint strokes profound serenity and the triangle essence of living, love & eternity. There are those eternal poetic notes telling the listener Schubert's deep pensive sadness. It is a diary full of emotion and uncertainty, yet that astounding serenity gives a clear insight into what is involved: reflection and perspective. S. Richter recites Schubert's poetry with grace and superb dexterity! A simply masterful captivating story. SUBLIME & HEARTFELT!!!
Utterly sublime. It's easy to become fixated on the slow tempo, but then you might miss the most interesting thing of all about this performance. Listen closely to the first few measures, and pay attention to the meter. Schubert writes this in 6/8, but this is not at all what Richter plays. Measure 1: 5/8, Measure 2: 5/8, Measure 3: 6/8. You hardly notice it, but this creates a subtle tension, offset by the slow tempo and the incredible purity and balance of his playing. This may be the single most creative and ingenious moment of musical interpretation I have ever come across.
I was noticing this while reading a comment that says he plays it exactly as written. That was something my teacher brought up. She liked this version, but she said it was not what schubert composed, and when you compete, you play what the composer wrote, or you get points off, and she is correct. I really like this version, it was why i played it for her while i was mastering this piece, but she was preparing me for competition, not recitals.
It's ironic that Richter, who prided himself on playing only what was in the scores, was one of the most individual, recognizable performers on record, i.e., a Great Pianist, a law unto himself.
Semplicemente sublime! Richter è la dimostrazione di come la grandezza di un interprete consista nello scomparire per permettere alla musica di manifestarsi. Più che a un concerto per piano sembra di assistere a una seduta medianica! Con questa sonata di Schubert si oltrepassa la sia pur nobile fedeltà allo spartito.
There is the controversially slow tempo in the first mvt, however Richter involves the listener to such an extent that one is riveted to every note and phrase. There is such intensity and honesty running through his entire interpretation of this beautiful work, and what irresistible ebullience he brings to the final mvt.
This slow tempo is not a controversy. It is an achievement. It is like listening to the final truths, which come from a man who has not enough air. But he knows.
Ogni volta emozionabte. Ogni nota, ogni frase, hanno significato. Richter ha un controllo totale del suono , mai freddo e duro anche nei momenti forti . Enorme tenerezza nelle parti più intime. Un suono " liquido" incomparabile. ❤
De joven, entré a la música por la puerta grande, la sinfónica. Todo lo demás me parecía pequeño.... Más tarde vino la ópera y pensé que había tocado el cielo. Pero me he ido haciendo mayor y la edad lo destila todo, también la música. Y un día, casi por casualidad, descubrí su esencia: un piano, una sonata, Schubert, Richter. Gracias a la música, gracias a la vida.
F.Schubert gelang hier, dank GOTTES Hilfe eine der schönsten Kompositionen überhaupt. Richter spielt dieses herrliche Stück mit größter Ehrfurcht und wundervoller Detailtreue. Einfach genial!! Wenn doch alle Menschen die wunderbare Botschaft dieser Musik, die voller Reinheit, Vollkommenheit und Schönheit ist , hören und vernehmen würden !?!
Il tempo del primo tempo è come una gabbia dalla quale non puoi e non vuoi uscire. Esperienza unica e questo grazie a Richter e alla tensione che crea suonando. ❤
Opening chords very reminiscent to Beethoven 4th concerto opening. Enourmously difficult to get it right. What a formidable rendering again by the Maestro.
Sam Williamson Would somebody, who knows how, sync the audio and video for this and everything else? Is there money in it? I guess not. Maybe Kanye will do it...
Aristote pensait que la musique pouvait influencer la façon dont un homme grandissait dans son propre être. Écouter cette musique est comprendre que le matérialisme est une folie. Quant à Schubert, c'est vraiment l'un des plus grands architectes musicaux de son temps. Il y a de nombreuses années, une très bonne amie m'a présenté ses œuvres... Je serai toujours reconnaissant à son âme majestueuse et prématurément envolée. J'espère que nous nous reverrons s'il y a un "au-delà"
Eh ben ... voilà du commentaire .... sapristi ... "le matérialisme est une folie" ... "nous nous reverrons dans l'au-delà" .... ça c'est du lourd ... merci Monsieur, enfin quelque chose chose de dense et de lisible sur ce You Tube ouvert à tous les vents ... (c'est bon de ne pas se sentir tout seul ..)
Besides Death and the Maiden i don't know any Schubert. I just recently discovered Richter. - came across when I delved into Bach. This piece is just phenomenal....
Ese sonido profundo y maravilloso de donde viene? Eso no es solo una tecnica increible sino un noble corazon que interpretra al compositor desde su lugar mas intimo. Y en Richter ESTO es un hecho innegable y con una dosis de inmortalidad.
This music let the light touch a soul in a very deep cave, reconnecting it. An idiot person just wouldn't understand it, because he is happy with the darkness of the cave and will use it, but for a soul that is suffering this is pure oxygen, and is very appreciated.
The tempo in the first movement is too slow? Yes, true...But when a master such as Richter plays it with that agogic and phrasing perfection and deep understanding, everything seems just perfect and the outcome is a marvellous musical experience.
i disagree that he plays it exactly as composed. I competed with this song many times, won a few competitions with it as well, and it was not written exactly like that is. In fact i listened to this during my competition days, played it for my instructor and she balked. "no, the way i teach you is as the music is" And she was right. I realized why my version sounded different.. she had me play it EXACTLY as composed. Richter ends blending notes wrong in a few places, legato when it should be staccato, and vice versa.
Eian, because you think the jury would count the quavers in the opening measures?... Come on. Also, Richter didn't have the same Urtext standard of sheet music as we do now.
I do generally agree with you, but I would go even further to say, many of the composers he play have no sensibility/spirituality to even imagine Richter's interpretation. Those are very different talents.
Tiefempfundene live Aufführung dieser romantischen Klaviersonate im lyrischen Tempo mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und effektiv kontrollierter Danamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Virtuoso!
Despite the radiant G major key, there is an exquisite sadness and immense longing to the first movement that Richter draws out sublimely. There are long phrases almost of prayerfulness; even from mm27 when the sad little waltz melody appears Richter doesn't increase the tempo or give way to prettiness. And he does the full first exposition repeat!
Dopo Coltrane, Jarrett, Bach , ora Schubert/Richter , l’Ho ascoltato per l’ennesima volta 😊, insuperabile , non mi stanco mai , che scoperta a 62 anni, vale la pena vivere ❤😊
Richter in the late Schubert ... ? This is a Pyramide in the desert . Definitive . Perhaps the only moment in the whole history of music where an interpret is telling you : " I KNOW" .
A todos aquellos que puedan considerar que el ritmo es ….si acaso…mínimamente lento…decirles… Es que acaso ustedes, todos ustedes, no ven al chico que pasa las hojas en el 36.50 como baila ¡!!! Con lo serio que parece, dirán ustedes??? Pues sí ..lo es..muy serio!!! Pero ese ritmo que Richter marca lo obliga a bailar!!! Y como baila!!! Como mueve la cabeza!!! Si parece que está en un concierto Heavy!!!Y los aplausos que dedica al maestro al final y la sonrisa, que por fin sonríe!!!… No son acaso el reconocimiento de la perfecta ejecución???!!!
An iconoclastic performance to say the least. No Viennese musician of the 1820s would be in any doubt about the prevailing tradition of the fast sonata-Allegro for opening movements. Schubert, knowing this, sometimes used "Moderato" or "molto Moderato" to prevent the performer from playing a traditional brisk Viennese tempo. Richter's tempo for the opening movement is thus completely historically implausible. Is it "wrong"? That is another question. And this same question can be asked of Glenn Gould's slow rendition of the Aria in the Goldberg Variations (1981). When one is dealing with inspired music, it's surprising the variety of tempi it can withstand!
"To carry the self forward and illuminate myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and illuminate the self is awakening." -- Eihei Dogen, 1233
The virtues and vainglories of pianistic genius, in its inherent self-assertion, add up to what they are. In my opinion, what makes Richter exceptional is how much he cared about finding, and dared to find, the rest. As is well-known, Richter said that: "The interpreter is really an executant, carrying out the composer's intentions to the letter. He doesn't add anything that isn't already in the work. If he is talented, he allows us to glimpse the truth of the work that is in itself a thing of genius and that is reflected in him. He shouldn't dominate the music, but should dissolve into it." To my mind, it makes so much sense that he would have been one of the first pianists to really understand how to play, to have the humility to really listen to, Schubert.
Schubert!!!Richter!!! Colosales!!! Vamos a prohibirnos decir tonterías. Esta versión no es para una noche de insomnio ¡!!ES PARA UNA NOCHE MARAVILLOSA!! Para la de insomnio que escuchen a R. Lupu Si acaso...con esta maravillosa versión de esta obra maravillosa...un vino....
........usted concuerda...con....Schubert y Richter.......jajaj lo mio no tiene merito. Una recomendación que seguro conoce ..el quinteto de piano de Shostakovich con Richter. Un saludo.
Concuerdo nuevamente.....Rado Lupu es un buen pianista...creo que no supera ese nivel....es bueno, pero Richter es como dices es colosal.............. y no estamos diciendo tonterías........ respecto del quinteto de shostakovich admito que no lo he escuchado........ aceptaré la recomendación y me ocuparé de ello!!!! de shostakovich disfruto de las obras para piano y orquesta con mi admirada Martha Argerich.......... cordial saludo.
Estimado.........que fenomenal obra!!!!............. la escuché por Argerich......, luego lo haré por Richter..........no para comparar porque son incomparables entre sí, son mis favoritos...... simplemente para hacerme dos regalos musicales iguales!!!!! jajajaja..... muchas gracias!!!!!
Thank you that is very useful. So if we would not consider the repeat, the duration would be 7-8 minutes less, so 25:50 - 7to8 = 18 to 19 minutes, still considerable slower than other players
Richter's slower tempo permits the exploration and expression of a richer, more nuanced experience- and with its spiritual qualities - than the 'more normal' tempo, which might tend to miss or gloss over these subtleties.
probably this is the first sonata teo played as a kid and he chooses to play it in the same manner he liked back then.✍️🥹 my first sonata was mozart 11th and i felt something similar to this about the way to play it. gotcha😊
Combien d'heures de travail ? D'acharnement. Et ça ne suffit pas . Car en plus il faut un don . Celeste ou terrestre. C'est le meilleur de l'humanité. Avec qqs autres artistes .
I play it at that speed and it sounds ridiculous. He plays it at that speed and it sounds like music from another planet. His SOUND is just beyond description!!
In Richter’s hands, every note turns lyrical. Just magical how he does it.
Richter is one of the very few who repeat the exposition here (7:53). And that, despite playing it about 50% slower than most others. I guess they all think this sonata is too long? But when Richter reaches the end of the exposition and returns to the beginning, it is one of the truly magical moments in his recording. It's hard to explain for me, but the first time it's like living through an experience as a little kid, and the repetition is like looking back at those events with the experience of an adult. And when the recapitulation comes at the end of the first movement, it is like an old man on the deathbed thinking one last time of those very events. I've never heard anyone else able to tell this story the way Richter did. To me, this is unsurpassable!
There is an interview where he comments on performers habit of ignoring composer instructions to repeat sections. I love that he always honours the composers wishes in this regard. Whenever I see a pianist perform and they do not play repeats I write them a letter expressing my dissapointment and frustration, I will complement them on their playing but I want to convey to them that the respeat is paart of the song, not some superfluous extra.
Richter is a genius and no one will ever understand or grasp the depth of the music he has played and given us over the wonderful years of his life. A soviet, who many wouldve never seen in the world if it wasent for the beauty of music and having it shared. Bless his soul, he is definatly one of the greatest in history.
Repeats are essential: they change the nature of the musical fact in case they are not being played. As a consequence, when they are executed, it produces a breath that developes throughout the piece. It all stems from a genuine understanding of the composition.
Yes...and after all is always about life...our life. In the absolute simplicity of those harmonies there is EVERYTHING. Thank you for your words.
Volo dos Sokolov and brendel repeats too
I don't know why this music is shaking my heart. Schubert, was not a scope of my interest until recently, but Richter brought me into it, the deep sky of his world. This is just beautiful.
4343okurayama not too bad
Schubert's music is so deep and pure that will drive you mad!
@@amirmotahari6186 - Schubert played by Richter will drive you sane.
You are shaking 4343 because the angels are in possession of your heart.
Only Richter's Schubert in the world makes me cry
Richter's performance of Schubert is always special. He always plays Schubert with a cautious attitude.The beautiful piano sound that rings his soul always makes me cry. It was such a beautiful performance.
What an amazing mysterious interpretation ?! How he could maintain such a irresistible flow is truly magical. Thank you, you experience Schubert differently with Richter.
I've been listening to the masterpiece for about two weeks. However, I am hungry for listening to it again and again. It touches some deep strings of my soul.
Me, too. Absolutely right..
Unter all den Schubert-Sonaten soll diese Richters liebste gewesen sein. Im weiten Vergleich weiß ich auch keinen anderen, der sie so konzentriert und intensiv und ausdrucksvoll spielt wie er.
La sonata 21 , al pari di questa, sempre interpretata da Richter , è ugualmente emozionante .
Schubert here seems to be on the same spiritual plane as Beethoven in his late piano sonatas and quartets - that feeling of hushed reverence, of prayerful utterance that is beyond words and points to the infinite
Grszie x aver espresso il tuo pensiero così bene. " sentimento orante che punta all'infinito" ..bellissimo . Ed è proprio così.
Sviatoslav Richter is a miracle ! No one can do with this sonata what he does.
started to burst into tears from 2:20ish...just...sublime and ethereal...love you, Ritcher.
Che esperienza meravigliosa!!! 46 minuti stupendi della mia vita. Grazie immenso Maestro Richter!!!
Extrêmement difficile de ne pas avoir les larmes aux yeux en entendant ce génie dans cette oeuvre tout aussi géniale...
Un vrai chef-d'oeuvre qui a trouvé son wanderer...Magnifique Richter, il a les clés du temps et nos destins en mains. Merci pour le voyage.
With every note & the opening tempos, Schubert paint strokes profound serenity and the triangle essence of living, love & eternity.
There are those eternal poetic notes telling the listener Schubert's deep pensive sadness. It is a diary full of emotion and uncertainty, yet that astounding serenity gives a clear insight into what is involved: reflection and perspective.
S. Richter recites Schubert's poetry with grace and superb dexterity!
A simply masterful captivating story. SUBLIME & HEARTFELT!!!
Richter grabs time by the throat. Sublime musical transcendence!
My favorite comment on this video. This is exactly my experience. I must have listened to this video 100 times by now.
He brings soooo much passion to this music. You can feel his life intersecting with Schubert here. Remarkable.
Utterly sublime. It's easy to become fixated on the slow tempo, but then you might miss the most interesting thing of all about this performance. Listen closely to the first few measures, and pay attention to the meter. Schubert writes this in 6/8, but this is not at all what Richter plays. Measure 1: 5/8, Measure 2: 5/8, Measure 3: 6/8. You hardly notice it, but this creates a subtle tension, offset by the slow tempo and the incredible purity and balance of his playing. This may be the single most creative and ingenious moment of musical interpretation I have ever come across.
I was noticing this while reading a comment that says he plays it exactly as written. That was something my teacher brought up. She liked this version, but she said it was not what schubert composed, and when you compete, you play what the composer wrote, or you get points off, and she is correct. I really like this version, it was why i played it for her while i was mastering this piece, but she was preparing me for competition, not recitals.
It's ironic that Richter, who prided himself on playing only what was in the scores, was one of the most individual, recognizable performers on record, i.e., a Great Pianist, a law unto himself.
Don't they ALL say they're only playing what's in the score... :) @@NobodyTheGreat01
It's actually written in 12/8 - the very slow tempo may be confusing you.
Semplicemente sublime! Richter è la dimostrazione di come la grandezza di un interprete consista nello scomparire per permettere alla musica di manifestarsi. Più che a un concerto per piano sembra di assistere a una seduta medianica! Con questa sonata di Schubert si oltrepassa la sia pur nobile fedeltà allo spartito.
Sconvolgente 😱, Alessio aggiungo solo questo aggettivo. Ho scoperto per caso, regalo della clausura pandémica, a 62 anni. Incredibile
There is the controversially slow tempo in the first mvt, however Richter involves the listener to such an extent that one is riveted to every note and phrase. There is such intensity and honesty running through his entire interpretation of this beautiful work, and what irresistible ebullience he brings to the final mvt.
+Meredith Foster I so agree. After hearing Richter's "too slow" way of playing it, everyone else sounds rushed and superfluous.
This slow tempo is not a controversy. It is an achievement.
It is like listening to the final truths, which come from a man who has not enough air. But he knows.
yes, i agree with you
The slow tempo may not be considered a controversy these days in light of the double-beat metronome marking theory ...
'Controversial' only amongst idiots.
Ogni volta emozionabte. Ogni nota, ogni frase, hanno significato. Richter ha un controllo totale del suono , mai freddo e duro anche nei momenti forti . Enorme tenerezza nelle parti più intime. Un suono " liquido" incomparabile. ❤
Toute la musique et tout le silence : la souffrance de Schubert et la souffrance de sa souffrance... C'est ça le miracle !
this play never fail to make me tears. sublime.
我不是很有耐心，但是这个视频深深的吸引着我，再次点开来听。。。我看到岁月在里面流动，树叶发芽变绿，秋风又将它吹落，直到被白雪覆盖，等待下一个轮回。宇宙之外，不知名的小星球飘荡在黑暗与真空中，苍茫与孤独。而在我们的眼中，穿越了时间，它也是一颗闪闪发光的钻石，点亮人们的内心。
❤️
I think Richter is the greatest pianist in 20th.
I very very very like his performance .
And so Clara Haskil.
@@estremp Two of the greats, for sure.
Glenn Gould too, and others like Horowitz, Rubinstein. Too many to be named
no one can sing this piece like him. i cannot find any word to describe this feeling..
H Penzio listen to Schiff
Yes but he is not was good as Richter in the second and third movements
SCHIFF???????
are you suggesting Schiff as an alternative to Richter?....oh dear...
Schiff ... this impostor ?
De joven, entré a la música por la puerta grande, la sinfónica. Todo lo demás me parecía pequeño.... Más tarde vino la ópera y pensé que había tocado el cielo. Pero me he ido haciendo mayor y la edad lo destila todo, también la música. Y un día, casi por casualidad, descubrí su esencia: un piano, una sonata, Schubert, Richter. Gracias a la música, gracias a la vida.
Schubert's poetry. by Richter.
incredible vision and atmosphere - all too rare
Franchement, Richter était sur une autre planète...
F.Schubert gelang hier, dank GOTTES Hilfe eine der schönsten Kompositionen überhaupt. Richter spielt dieses herrliche
Stück mit größter Ehrfurcht und wundervoller Detailtreue. Einfach genial!! Wenn doch alle Menschen die wunderbare
Botschaft dieser Musik, die voller Reinheit, Vollkommenheit und Schönheit ist , hören und vernehmen würden !?!
The world would be a better place, for sure!
it's so simple, but the part at 15:13 shakes me with it's emotional force
I agree. The slower tempo makes it more powerful at that part. However, for the rest of the sonata, it just seems to drag.
Il tempo del primo tempo è come una gabbia dalla quale non puoi e non vuoi uscire. Esperienza unica e questo grazie a Richter e alla tensione che crea suonando. ❤
I've stood by the opinion that Richter is the greatest pianist of all time.
A genius playing the music of another genius? I guess so. Richter simply REVEALS this sonata !
When i listen to this it just grounds me and i find myself staring at nothing just absorbing every chord and note.
Opening chords very reminiscent to Beethoven 4th concerto opening. Enourmously difficult to get it right. What a formidable rendering again by the Maestro.
Maybe the Best version of this piece.. i feel the depth of soul. S0 sublime..
Richter was a machine with feelings. Lovely.
Sam Williamson Would somebody, who knows how, sync the audio and video for this and everything else? Is there money in it? I guess not. Maybe Kanye will do it...
+Sam Williamson your metaphor breaks down
it's one thing to impress other pianists, it's one thing to surpass them, and so on, but to make them cry...
Aristote pensait que la musique pouvait influencer la façon dont un homme grandissait dans son propre être. Écouter cette musique est comprendre que le matérialisme est une folie. Quant à Schubert, c'est vraiment l'un des plus grands architectes musicaux de son temps. Il y a de nombreuses années, une très bonne amie m'a présenté ses œuvres... Je serai toujours reconnaissant à son âme majestueuse et prématurément envolée. J'espère que nous nous reverrons s'il y a un "au-delà"
Eh ben ... voilà du commentaire .... sapristi ... "le matérialisme est une folie" ... "nous nous reverrons dans l'au-delà" .... ça c'est du lourd ... merci Monsieur, enfin quelque chose chose de dense et de lisible sur ce You Tube ouvert à tous les vents ...
(c'est bon de ne pas se sentir tout seul ..)
Besides Death and the Maiden i don't know any Schubert. I just recently discovered Richter. - came across when I delved into Bach. This piece is just phenomenal....
Definitely try his 21st piano sonata. I recommend Tatiana Nikolaeva's recording which (at this time) you can still find here
He plays as if he is just trying something out and liking what he sees. Just such a wondrous player
Yes! Whenever I listen to Richter I feel I'm setting out on an adventure of exploration.
마음을 가만가만 두드려주는 선율들.
그저 아름답게 빠져듭니다.
Ese sonido profundo y maravilloso de donde viene? Eso no es solo una tecnica increible sino un noble corazon que interpretra al compositor desde su lugar mas intimo. Y en Richter ESTO es un hecho innegable y con una dosis de inmortalidad.
Slow and sparse as it seems, it becomes progressively meaningful deeper into the piece
This music let the light touch a soul in a very deep cave, reconnecting it. An idiot person just wouldn't understand it, because he is happy with the darkness of the cave and will use it, but for a soul that is suffering this is pure oxygen, and is very appreciated.
00:10 Molto moderato e cantabile
25:54 Andante
33:42 Menuetto: Allegro moderato - Trio
38:06 Allegretto
First Mov. in 25 min. Hypnotic. This is what other men say in whole books or what other men do not say in whole books.
Métaphysique et profondément humain à la fois. Unique.
The tempo in the first movement is too slow? Yes, true...But when a master such as Richter plays it with that agogic and phrasing perfection and deep understanding, everything seems just perfect and the outcome is a marvellous musical experience.
Mr Richter is the greatest ever, why? I think becauce he plays exactly the way the composer has written it, nothing more, nothing less.
Magnus Jönsson I agree.
i disagree that he plays it exactly as composed. I competed with this song many times, won a few competitions with it as well, and it was not written exactly like that is. In fact i listened to this during my competition days, played it for my instructor and she balked. "no, the way i teach you is as the music is" And she was right. I realized why my version sounded different.. she had me play it EXACTLY as composed. Richter ends blending notes wrong in a few places, legato when it should be staccato, and vice versa.
oh and he changes the time signatures in the beginning. I would have never gotten away with that in competition.
Eian, because you think the jury would count the quavers in the opening measures?... Come on. Also, Richter didn't have the same Urtext standard of sheet music as we do now.
I do generally agree with you, but I would go even further to say,
many of the composers he play have no sensibility/spirituality to even imagine Richter's interpretation.
Those are very different talents.
Je ne m'ennuie pas une seule seconde à l'écoute de cette sonate divine. Je ne sais même pas quoi dire sur Richter...Eternel.
Apasionada, potente, sublime.
My favourite shubert sonata..
If only Schubert could hear this...
Tiefempfundene live Aufführung dieser romantischen Klaviersonate im lyrischen Tempo mit gut artikuliertem Anschlag und effektiv kontrollierter Danamik. Echt unvergleichlicher Virtuoso!
Despite the radiant G major key, there is an exquisite sadness and immense longing to the first movement that Richter draws out sublimely. There are long phrases almost of prayerfulness; even from mm27 when the sad little waltz melody appears Richter doesn't increase the tempo or give way to prettiness. And he does the full first exposition repeat!
Ipnotico è davvero il termine giusto.
"i was in a state that i can only compare to a hypnotic trance" (Glenn Gould)
Dopo Coltrane, Jarrett, Bach , ora Schubert/Richter , l’Ho ascoltato per l’ennesima volta 😊, insuperabile , non mi stanco mai , che scoperta a 62 anni, vale la pena vivere ❤😊
Il dar vita al silenzio ❤
I tend to dislike Richter's interpretations (of any composer), but this is majestic. Such gravitas.
+antonioxnil First time I read something like this. Why do you dislike?
+antonioxnil trying to sound special?
+HaWkEmPiRe I do have to retract that. I was confusing him with Rubinstein. That's how musically literate I am.
+antonioxnil I'm sorry for speaking in that manner...well, speaking of Rubinstein, I must say we're together in that.
Rubinstein reminds me of a translator of poetry who strives to improve on Homer or Virgil rather than bring the poetry to life to a new audience.
Svatty really has this composition in his pocket... Mesmerising.
Richter in the late Schubert ... ? This is a Pyramide in the desert .
Definitive . Perhaps the only moment in the whole history of music where an interpret is telling you : " I KNOW" .
From now on , it' s going to be the "Four" last Schubert sonatas because Richer has put it up right up there with the other three.
Right.
Indubitably.
Гений! Рихтер это целая Галактика, свет от которой будет сиять в Вечности...
Я согласен с вами! Пусть он будет благословен за его талант и чувственности
русская легенда🇷🇺👍🎹
mesmerizing beyond belief...
a giant in all senses........
Miracle !
This is immense .... immense .... Richter in connection with the other world.
(I am serious)
9:07 more facial expressions than notes in the score. This tells you about the uninimaginable contrentation of Richter. And the inner lava.
Richter said this was his favorite Schubert sonata.
A todos aquellos que puedan considerar que el ritmo es ….si
acaso…mínimamente lento…decirles…
Es que acaso ustedes, todos ustedes, no ven al chico que
pasa las hojas en el 36.50 como baila ¡!!! Con lo serio que parece, dirán ustedes???
Pues sí ..lo es..muy serio!!!
Pero ese ritmo que Richter marca lo obliga a bailar!!!
Y como baila!!! Como mueve la cabeza!!! Si parece que está
en un concierto Heavy!!!Y los aplausos que dedica al maestro al final y la sonrisa,
que por fin sonríe!!!… No son acaso el reconocimiento de la perfecta ejecución???!!!
An iconoclastic performance to say the least. No Viennese musician of the 1820s would be in any doubt about the prevailing tradition of the fast sonata-Allegro for opening movements. Schubert, knowing this, sometimes used "Moderato" or "molto Moderato" to prevent the performer from playing a traditional brisk Viennese tempo. Richter's tempo for the opening movement is thus completely historically implausible. Is it "wrong"? That is another question. And this same question can be asked of Glenn Gould's slow rendition of the Aria in the Goldberg Variations (1981). When one is dealing with inspired music, it's surprising the variety of tempi it can withstand!
"To carry the self forward and illuminate myriad things is delusion. That myriad things come forth and illuminate the self is awakening." -- Eihei Dogen, 1233
The virtues and vainglories of pianistic genius, in its inherent self-assertion, add up to what they are. In my opinion, what makes Richter exceptional is how much he cared about finding, and dared to find, the rest. As is well-known, Richter said that:
"The interpreter is really an executant, carrying out the composer's intentions to the letter. He doesn't add anything that isn't already in the work. If he is talented, he allows us to glimpse the truth of the work that is in itself a thing of genius and that is reflected in him. He shouldn't dominate the music, but should dissolve into it."
To my mind, it makes so much sense that he would have been one of the first pianists to really understand how to play, to have the humility to really listen to, Schubert.
Yes, it is. Have you listened to his recordings of Bach, in particular The Well-Tempered Clavier? It's there as well.
Schubert!!!Richter!!! Colosales!!!
Vamos a prohibirnos decir tonterías. Esta versión no es para una noche de insomnio ¡!!ES PARA UNA NOCHE MARAVILLOSA!!
Para la de insomnio que escuchen a R. Lupu
Si acaso...con esta maravillosa versión de esta obra maravillosa...un vino....
+OCARALLODENITO .............concuerdo..........
........usted concuerda...con....Schubert y Richter.......jajaj lo mio no tiene merito.
Una recomendación que seguro conoce ..el quinteto de piano de Shostakovich con Richter.
Un saludo.
Concuerdo nuevamente.....Rado Lupu es un buen pianista...creo que no supera ese nivel....es bueno, pero Richter es como dices es colosal.............. y no estamos diciendo tonterías........ respecto del quinteto de shostakovich admito que no lo he escuchado........ aceptaré la recomendación y me ocuparé de ello!!!! de shostakovich disfruto de las obras para piano y orquesta con mi admirada Martha Argerich.......... cordial saludo.
Estimado.........que fenomenal obra!!!!............. la escuché por Argerich......, luego lo haré por Richter..........no para comparar porque son incomparables entre sí, son mis favoritos...... simplemente para hacerme dos regalos musicales iguales!!!!! jajajaja..... muchas gracias!!!!!
Me alegro que te guste……está claro que existen versiones
buenas…muy buenas…la de Argerich… y la de Richter!!jajja
Es una broma….Un saludo cordial.
A 0:15 repeat A🩵7:55 B💛 15:13
Thank you that is very useful. So if we would not consider the repeat, the duration would be 7-8 minutes less, so 25:50 - 7to8 = 18 to 19 minutes, still considerable slower than other players
ALWAYS GREAT RICHTER
esecuzione meravigliosa!
Richter's slower tempo permits the exploration and expression of a richer, more nuanced experience- and with its spiritual qualities - than the 'more normal' tempo, which might tend to miss or gloss over these subtleties.
Superb... 😍😍😍👍👍
probably this is the first sonata teo played as a kid and he chooses to play it in the same manner he liked back then.✍️🥹 my first sonata was mozart 11th and i felt something similar to this about the way to play it. gotcha😊
Un Poema hecho Musica.................
2nd mov. 25:55
3rd mov. 33:43
and memorized.........a monster of the piano.......technic and sensitivity...what else?????!!!!
+Carlos Francisco Lijoi Cárcano brain, I suppose
it's hole Personallyty
master
-- Envoûtant, romantique, idéal lors d'une longue nuit d'insomnie --
Encore un qui ne dort pas ... saludo amigo
Amazing.
great
1:38, 15:12, 16:43
Combien d'heures de travail ? D'acharnement. Et ça ne suffit pas . Car en plus il faut un don .
Celeste ou terrestre.
C'est le meilleur de l'humanité.
Avec qqs autres artistes .
Браво!
38:08
You folks seriously can’t get over the slow tempo and instead enjoy the gravitas?
Richter the God? Richter the Truth? Richter the....?
0:15
5:14. 6:46. 15:12. 15:53
Thanks
the beginning is really to slow, Richter played it at disk faster and with more intensity. For me - him and Sokolov owned this sonata.
He;s an sensitive technician.