Everytime when I listen to his playing of preludes No 4 my eyes get teary and my soul trembles like a small flower in the wind... I love Sviatoslav Richeter, the greatest pianist ever.
Thank you for this video. You must have had a difficult time remastering it, but this was still enjoyable. I'd not heard the Rach 1 by him before. I loved his Rach 2, food for thought there. Richter was my absolute idol when I was learning piano back in the 50s and 60s and still holds a strong place in my music memory. He was extraordinarily powerful, yet could tame his inner beast instantaneously as needed. I've played and replayed everything he'd recorded that I could beg borrow, (but not actually steal, though I had one or two very long loans). I actually heard him in England, quite by accident and thanks to the the kindness of a caretaker (wrong place, right time for me!). He was warming up in a side room before rehearsal of the Brahms he was to play. He only played an odd recognisable bar or two of the Brahms over and over, then would skip into Bach-in the key he was playing in!!!-which was both amazing and superb. This was not any way I'd ever heard practice work done before, but OMG it was truly wonderful. I was too broke to attend the actual concert, but I had a real blessing that day.
@@RollaArtis The pianists in Rachmaninov's year at the conservatory said that Rachmo was "brittle" at the piano. Perhaps this is why Lhevinne won the gold for piano that year, and Scriabin won for composition. Rachmo won for conducting. As listeners I feel it's our duty to try to find the "brittle" in what we have of R's playing. Richter wasn't "brittle." He was fluid and as powerful as a tsunami. He had massive tone--fully the equal of Horowitz in the tone-department.
The Preludes + Etudes Tableaux are (as always) exceptionally polished, and emotionally "correct" - lucid but not cloyingly sweet in the famous op 23 n 4, shyly sinister in the op 32 n 2, and jagged in the op 39 n 3. In this way, I believe Richter to be the most faithful communicator of the "tableaux" half of the Etudes-Tableaux, as well as the individual poetic genius within each Prelude. He understands impressions, musical "voyages" like no other. As for the concerti... well! What needs to be said that hasn't already?
I saw a clip of Glenn Gould saying that he thought Richter was the best example of a musician who creates a direct link between the music and the listener, without attracting attention to his own relationship with the instrument. Bam - Richter is always on point to my ears. But the Gould comment makes me wonder why he did such strange things to Bach, lol...
I was thinking the same at the opening. Then, he got to an expected Moderato, and then... Kaboom! Exaltation! It did seem too slow at the beginning but as it turns out, absolutely masterful! No other word. I had never heard the Rach 2 played like this, but I think this is now my favorite rendition, bar none. BTW, I loved his Rach 1 too! Rarely heard...
I've rarely heard the opening bars of this somewhat neglected work played as stunningly as this. Richter is in stellar form throughout this performance.
Сердечно благодарю. Рихтер - гениальный испонитель, а ещё Гилельс. С музыкой, которую они испонял,и в обнимку прошли моё детство и юность. Эти писанисты приучили меня к настоящей музыке.
Sviatoslav Richter-Plays Rachmaninov = Wonderful Recording,=For our Happiest Days There is Rachmaninov:Beautifully Played ✨🎶🎶🎶🎼✨🥰🎶🎶🙏=@Classical Music /Reference =8,50pm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Not forgetting Horowitz, Rubinstein, Arrau, Gilels, Michelangeli and indeed Rachmaninov himself. In fact there is no one greatest pianist is the World!. Each great artist is obviously unique, there by definition bringing their own individual qualities to the concert platform. Richter was of course amazing, but he did'nt have the monopoly on greatness.
Hey Praga Digitals - you had a choice about allowing this performance to be interrupted by obnoxious shouty ads at random moments. You had a choice. We're enemies now.
@Panzerino02 -- Correctly? It's CYRILLIC! There are various Transliteration: Personally, I prefer "Rakhmaninov" since it's more consistent. Cheers from Mexico!
@@Panzerino02 -- Wrong....Rakhmaninov was not a polyglot or English scholar and spelled his name as he was told. Cyrillic transliteration systems were, however, developed by scholars so, whatever system you prefer, at least be consistent.
@@steveegallo3384 This is not a question about "transliteration". It is a question of what one person desire to be called. He expresses his wish clearly - "Rachmaninoff". And many times he mentioned this in the USA. And his grave is also "Rachmaninoff". Case closed.
@@michaelyoung1989 Nope. Everybody plays Rach. PC#2 and PC#3. Recordings of PC#1 are rare, but program notes I've read for #2 said that #1 was received so badly that it caused the composer to enter a pretty serious depression period.
Everytime when I listen to his playing of preludes No 4 my eyes get teary and my soul trembles like a small flower in the wind...
I love Sviatoslav Richeter, the greatest pianist ever.
To live on the same earth where this music exists. It's a bliss.
This is a real treasure, thank you.
Indeed , the best version of this concertos by, S. Richer !!! Thanks a lot !!!
Grandiose, thank you very much for this HD-compilation!
Thank you for this video. You must have had a difficult time remastering it, but this was still enjoyable. I'd not heard the Rach 1 by him before. I loved his Rach 2, food for thought there. Richter was my absolute idol when I was learning piano back in the 50s and 60s and still holds a strong place in my music memory. He was extraordinarily powerful, yet could tame his inner beast instantaneously as needed. I've played and replayed everything he'd recorded that I could beg borrow, (but not actually steal, though I had one or two very long loans). I actually heard him in England, quite by accident and thanks to the the kindness of a caretaker (wrong place, right time for me!). He was warming up in a side room before rehearsal of the Brahms he was to play. He only played an odd recognisable bar or two of the Brahms over and over, then would skip into Bach-in the key he was playing in!!!-which was both amazing and superb. This was not any way I'd ever heard practice work done before, but OMG it was truly wonderful. I was too broke to attend the actual concert, but I had a real blessing that day.
Indeed, friend.......Happy New Year from Mexico!
Thank you for this! Would love to see some of him playing Prokofiev. His 7th sonata recording is in desperate need of a remaster!
Thank you for updating. loved it.
Гениальная музыка в гениальном исполнении!
Bravo 👏 ❤ Bravo 👏
Impecable, realmente soberbio ...🙌🏻
Richter is the greatest pianist of all time! He was one of the gods sent to earth!
You forget Rachmaninov - and he was the composer
he was not the best playing Mozart
He didn't try to play much Mozart thankfully. I think he knew his forte. Quite good at Romantic music, Schubert and Prokofiev @@franzliszt556
@@franzliszt556 Yes ,he was. Read what Arthur Rubenstein says about Richter and Mozart.
@@RollaArtis The pianists in Rachmaninov's year at the conservatory said that Rachmo was "brittle" at the piano. Perhaps this is why Lhevinne won the gold for piano that year, and Scriabin won for composition. Rachmo won for conducting. As listeners I feel it's our duty to try to find the
"brittle" in what we have of R's playing. Richter wasn't "brittle." He was fluid and as powerful as a tsunami. He had massive tone--fully the equal of Horowitz in the tone-department.
The Preludes + Etudes Tableaux are (as always) exceptionally polished, and emotionally "correct" - lucid but not cloyingly sweet in the famous op 23 n 4, shyly sinister in the op 32 n 2, and jagged in the op 39 n 3. In this way, I believe Richter to be the most faithful communicator of the "tableaux" half of the Etudes-Tableaux, as well as the individual poetic genius within each Prelude. He understands impressions, musical "voyages" like no other. As for the concerti... well! What needs to be said that hasn't already?
Nobody plays the Etudes Tableaux like Richter, it's needless to mention!
Sergio Fiorentino first.
I saw a clip of Glenn Gould saying that he thought Richter was the best example of a musician who creates a direct link between the music and the listener, without attracting attention to his own relationship with the instrument. Bam - Richter is always on point to my ears. But the Gould comment makes me wonder why he did such strange things to Bach, lol...
@@berlinzerberus -- Nor the Opera 23 & 32.....although there IS Weissenberg......Cheers from Mexico!
The best to ever do it
His Piano Concerto No. 2 is the slowest I've ever heard, but I loved it.
I was thinking the same at the opening. Then, he got to an expected Moderato, and then... Kaboom! Exaltation! It did seem too slow at the beginning but as it turns out, absolutely masterful! No other word. I had never heard the Rach 2 played like this, but I think this is now my favorite rendition, bar none. BTW, I loved his Rach 1 too! Rarely heard...
Avete fatto un lavoro meraviglioso! Grazie!
Grazie. Magnifico.
Meraviglioso❤
sublime pianism and artistry!!!! Out of this world!!!! REALLY!
I've rarely heard the opening bars of this somewhat neglected work played as stunningly as this. Richter is in stellar form throughout this performance.
Сердечно благодарю. Рихтер - гениальный испонитель, а ещё Гилельс. С музыкой, которую они испонял,и в обнимку прошли моё детство и юность. Эти писанисты приучили меня к настоящей музыке.
Always been my fav recording of the Rach PC 1, as old as the recording is!
Scuze me , also etude tableaux !!! Thanks very much !!!!
Piano Concerto No. 2 is in C minor, not D minor. I noticed that even the commercial box set has it wrong.🤔🤗
The orchestra is also pretty amazing, really confident, as it should be. Just like richter.
❤
каждый раз проходишься по этим записям думаешь вдруг что-то новое случайно обнаружилось...😮
A pure, great Russian Story! A lost world - transformed into endless Art.
Sviatoslav Richter-Plays Rachmaninov = Wonderful Recording,=For our Happiest Days There is Rachmaninov:Beautifully Played ✨🎶🎶🎶🎼✨🥰🎶🎶🙏=@Classical Music /Reference =8,50pm ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Richter is easily the greatest pianist to have ever lived !
Not forgetting Horowitz, Rubinstein, Arrau, Gilels, Michelangeli and indeed Rachmaninov himself. In fact there is no one greatest pianist is the World!. Each great artist is obviously unique, there by definition bringing their own individual qualities to the concert platform.
Richter was of course amazing, but he did'nt have the monopoly on greatness.
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Hey Praga Digitals - you had a choice about allowing this performance to be interrupted by obnoxious shouty ads at random moments. You had a choice. We're enemies now.
Opet ubacujete reklame usred kompozicije-krajnje ste neobazrivi prema slusaocima-bas necu kupiti vas prizvod
Кто дирижер? Какой оркестр? Браво!
Please, spell the Rachmaninoff's name correctly-like he is written on his grave in Kensico. Thank you for these wonderful recordings. Nobody better.
Sergio Fiorentino.
@Panzerino02 -- Correctly? It's CYRILLIC! There are various Transliteration: Personally, I prefer "Rakhmaninov" since it's more consistent. Cheers from Mexico!
@@steveegallo3384 The only thing that matter, is how Rachmaninoff himself wrote his name - he spelled his name "Sergei Rachmaninoff". Period.
@@Panzerino02 -- Wrong....Rakhmaninov was not a polyglot or English scholar and spelled his name as he was told. Cyrillic transliteration systems were, however, developed by scholars so, whatever system you prefer, at least be consistent.
@@steveegallo3384 This is not a question about "transliteration". It is a question of what one person desire to be called. He expresses his wish clearly - "Rachmaninoff". And many times he mentioned this in the USA. And his grave is also "Rachmaninoff". Case closed.
At last the excessively-lampooned PC #1!
I think you meant the excessively-lampooned Symphony #1
@@michaelyoung1989 Nope. Everybody plays Rach. PC#2 and PC#3. Recordings of PC#1 are rare, but program notes I've read for #2 said that #1 was received so badly that it caused the composer to enter a pretty serious depression period.
Рахм не жил 1955-1984!
Скорее это годы исполнения Рихтером.
მიქელანჯელის მერე რიხტერის
მოსმენა არ ღირს, პრიმიტიულია!
Good but Cziffra better