The fact his sound manages to be so clear and articulate despite the archaic audio quality and static really does make you wonder if Richter was even human
A student of Rosina Lhevinne's was with her teacher at a Josef Hofmann recital. "Why does he play it so fast?" "Because he can't play it any faster," replied Mme. Lhevinne.
WAY TOOOOOOOOOO SLOW. Chopin emphasized speed in this one. THIS IS PLAYED WAYYYY TOOO SLOOWWWWW. Only the real hackers irl can play it as Chopin wanted.
Yes, Richter is fast. What is amazing is that he does not compromise quality for speed. Both quality and speed are top notch. He's one of the best in history IMO.
That's the most impressive thing here, that he is not compromising speed for quality. An innumerable number of pianists will sacrifice quality when they try to go for speed.
+WondrousMoose And they say he still hated Op. 10 No. 2 - I mean, he could prob play it better than anyone else, just not "up to his own standards" lol
Goodness. I can barely keep my fingers straight at half this tempo. It's incredible that Richter keeps the pieces so musically intact. And the clarity. I can't even.
Richter in Moscow (14-1-1952), Chopin Op. 10 no. 4. Time: 1:39. Richter in Kiev (3-3-1960), Chopin Op.10 no. 4. Time: 1:37. I have a few others that are around 1:36-1:37 range. Mind you, those are all from LIVE performances full of other very demanding works. This. Vid. Is. Legit!!!!
I could swear that he was not playing it alone...Marvelous, tremendous, magnificant, amazing, wonderful, brilliant, outstanding performance, great, perfect...should I say more...?!?!?!
Remember - not only can Richter burn super-difficult pieces to the ground (Chopin's 4th Ballade is basically off-limits in a post-Richter world), he can also play the most introverted Schubert Sonatas like a genius. And that tone...
This man was never a child prodigy and was largely self-taught. He's the best example of an accomplished musician who rose to fame and legend through sheer hard work and passion for music. He had nothing else in him but love for music and art and that drove him to success.
From wikipedia: "Although Neuhaus taught many pianists, including Emil Gilels and Radu Lupu, it is said that he considered Richter to be "the genius pupil, for whom he had been waiting all his life," while acknowledging that he taught Richter "almost nothing." Largely self taught until he studied Heinrich Neuhaus at the age of 22, but by no means not a prodigious talent.
To say that he had "nothing else in him but love for music and art" and to mention that he wasn't a child prodigy seems to suggest that, in Richter's journey, hard work replaced talent where others thrived on talent alone. This isn't really the case, nor was his musicianship in any way isolated before his studies with Heinrich Neuhaus. No amount of hard work will replace the kind of talent that Richter had, and his musicality and versatility was far greater than even that of most of the most talented performers alive today, judging even from his memory alone. If anything, it rather seems to me that his talent even managed to precede his technical ability (and thus his "hard work") at times; his life performances could occasionally get messy (ex. some performances of the Schumann Fantasy, second movement coda, a notoriously hard section, and Scriabin's Fifth Sonata-- both of these are marked by an impulsivity that can only be accommodated by an immense musicianship and which is virtually extinct in the kind of clinical pianism that thrives on the big concert stages today).
Harrison Richter Different countries have different rules for that. If you want to write nine thousand and one, just write it out 9001. That way it's not confusing. This is international after all.
Music world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century Sviatoslav Richter. His virtuoso technique combined with a huge repertoire and depth of interpretation.
Beautifully played by this great pianist! Chopin has always been my favorite and was played by Cornel Wilde-I think the movie was "A Song To Remember" and was about Chopin's life. He died at a very young age. Thank you for poating this.
It's a crazy performance that will go down in history for a long time. Everything about Richter is contained in this short, intense performance. It wasn't just fast, but it also improved the perfect performance musically by utilizing every note. It's a crazy performance.
@Syntaxicity It's an old tape, if it was sped up it would mess with the pitch. But the pitch is normal. Seriously too many people with no clue believing it's sped up....... Believe me, if Richter wanted to, he could play this even faster. This is about 220 bpm, with 100% control. No doubt he could go up to 250 bpm. But he's not trying to break a Guiness Record here, keep that in mind....
But look at how his arms move before he starts. Surely that’s sped up? He moves so unnaturally. But the pitch is accurate. I thought the pitch fluctuates when you change the speed, not if the film is fast from the get-go. It’s not a vinyl on a faster setting after all.
@@dreamer_4937 How the fuck is that unnatural it looks perfectly normal, if you want to see unnatural arm movement before the start of a piece look up Traum Music Scherzo no 1.
@@Santosificationable Nobody cares about world records for music, it's never about how fast you can play it, it's about how fast you think it should be played and how nice it sounds. I guarantee Richter could've played this in around 1:10 but it probably would've been blurry and he may have made some mistakes at that speed.
@;op 4 Please look carefully at the start of the video his hands and arms move way too fast to be human right at the very start to play that first chord. In this video Richter looks very even in all his movements.
Incredible! And just two cuts in this video! I don't think it was sped up. There exist audio recordings of different concerts with him playing this etude with the same insane speed. He was just extremely gifted and even more a hardworking and ambitious perfectionist...
I don’t believe it was purposely sped up, but being an old recording it’s playing just a tad faster than what the actual performance speed was at, imo.
Even at this tempo there are still changes of mood happening, passages of mystery and subdued brooding leading up to, or even during, quicksilver flashes of merriment. Berezowski and Lipatti and others may be able to nearly match the tempo or storminess, but not the range of expressiveness.
This is the best rendition of this piece that I've ever heard, regardless of speed. The technique is superb, and his expression of Chopin feels truly authentic. I personally prefer a tempo more like how Pollini plays, but that's just my taste. Excellent.
Such an amazing performance. This is obviously not sped up (the C sharp minor key/pitch is very apparent!). I don't think this performance sounds robotic at all, just fiery and a brilliant show of virtuosity. Stunning!
It should be realized that speeding up a video doesn't necessarily affect pitch, that'd just a movie trick. however, this video is slightly sped up, though not by much. if you look up him playing this, there is another identical recording where it is slightly slower
@@RaptorT1V Не думаю, что он прочитает Ваш коммент спустя полгода. Тогда это Ваш шанс написать истинный перевод :). P.S. И вообще, он будто говорит "Торренто" или как-то так.
@@matmm75006 with Richter op10-4 is a Czerny-study and nothing more , j agree the name " Torrent " with Samson François ; here is a massacre poor Chopin à shame
I doubt whether this video was sped up. If you listen to his 21 February 1960 Prague recital (on RUclips) the performance is only about 3 seconds slower - still very fast. Only in his later years did he slow the pace a significantly (see his Chopin recital at the Barbican, London on RUclips). BTW the Prague recital, in my opinion, is one of the best performances ever of the selected etudes, even though the recording quality is not brilliant.
Such ease and fluidity...fascinating to read Heinrich Neuhaus's book "The Art of Piano Playing" and get his thoughts on being Richter's teacher. Incredible!
If music has its own world of record, this one goes down as the fastest ever. No one breaks that tempo since. It's the equivalent of being faster than the speed of light. No one ever imagine it could be possible.
This is peferct and wonderfully played. I like the way Richter play Chopin 's music. Without rubato, very legato and whithout mistake... and not so fast , his Op 10 N° 12 is wonderfull too..
I just compared the tunings - it´s perfect in tune/in the key. That means, if someone has speed it up he must have done so called time stretching in order to stay in the key. And that is an awful lot of work as it has to go along in synchronisation with the video. I can´t imagine someone doing this effort. What for?
...I am in awe. I don't know much about this piece, but from what I felt...I loved the way he expressed it. The music was simply OVERWHELMING, and I didn't notice I had a cringe on my face until the clip was over. xD his fingers were FLYING throughout the piece. xD I am officially a fan.
The fact his sound manages to be so clear and articulate despite the archaic audio quality and static really does make you wonder if Richter was even human
Yesss it sounds like a roll
Теперь представь как этот этюд играл сам Шопен или его виртуозный современник Ференц .....
am I?
yea, I am.
I also did that you know?
-Why do you play so fast?
-Because I can.
He actually said this during an interview.
legend.
that's Horowitz
Whoever said that, what a boss
A student of Rosina Lhevinne's was with her teacher at a Josef Hofmann recital. "Why does he play it so fast?" "Because he can't play it any faster," replied Mme. Lhevinne.
Based
For people complaining about a supposed lack of musicality:
1) It is played musically.
2) It is an étude.
WAY TOOOOOOOOOO SLOW. Chopin emphasized speed in this one. THIS IS PLAYED WAYYYY TOOO SLOOWWWWW. Only the real hackers irl can play it as Chopin wanted.
@Ling Ling YOu should be practicing
@@blender-chan They might have been a tiny bit facetious...maybe.
For people complaining about a supposed lack of musicality:
1) clean you ears
Its also because the recordings like 50 years old
That was one of my slower days.
Sviatoslav Richter hahaha
Doesnt work anymore
Yes, Richter is fast. What is amazing is that he does not compromise quality for speed. Both quality and speed are top notch. He's one of the best in history IMO.
That's the most impressive thing here, that he is not compromising speed for quality. An innumerable number of pianists will sacrifice quality when they try to go for speed.
Yes, he is one of the best in history. Most pianists these days are not pianists but by name.
210 BPM, chopin initially wrote 176 😇😇😇
When mom says one last piece before bed
Nah man then you pick like a huge concerto or john cages 4 33
This is my go-to video for a display of inhuman ability at the piano. Richter was unlike anything else.
GreatWonderMoose while I don't always like his interpretations, this is a godly performance :D
+WondrousMoose And they say he still hated Op. 10 No. 2 - I mean, he could prob play it better than anyone else, just not "up to his own standards" lol
You should check Volodos
Kristina Miller
Try Stephen Beus playing the fugue (4th mov) from Beethovens Hammerklavier
He's from an other planet.
Try another frickin universe ^^
@@GAMLAPATTE try another frickin reality ^^
@@marcellolupoli7978 ☺
Goodness. I can barely keep my fingers straight at half this tempo. It's incredible that Richter keeps the pieces so musically intact. And the clarity. I can't even.
When you have to film a piano playing video but you forgot to go to the toilet in the last 3 hours
I'm not gonna ask how you forget to go and use the bathroom
The Angry Cat more like in the last 3 DAYS
That hits hard now
0:01 that throw though.
Ikr
Richter in Moscow (14-1-1952), Chopin Op. 10 no. 4. Time: 1:39.
Richter in Kiev (3-3-1960), Chopin Op.10 no. 4. Time: 1:37.
I have a few others that are around 1:36-1:37 range. Mind you, those are all from LIVE performances full of other very demanding works.
This. Vid. Is. Legit!!!!
I could swear that he was not playing it alone...Marvelous, tremendous, magnificant, amazing, wonderful, brilliant, outstanding performance, great, perfect...should I say more...?!?!?!
I keep coming back to this recording. Richter has a menacing aura surrounding his extraordinary pianistic ability. What a beast!
Imagine him joining the chopin competition today with this piece
Remember - not only can Richter burn super-difficult pieces to the ground (Chopin's 4th Ballade is basically off-limits in a post-Richter world), he can also play the most introverted Schubert Sonatas like a genius. And that tone...
Hey! I'm five seconds ahead of this person before the last bit at the end, check out my channel, especially the about part on my channel!
I can play this at about x100 slower speed
What would you like me to do with this information?
Bruh😂😂😂😂
At least you can play it .
He said: "Because Chopin wrote Presto"
I love how he just aggressively throws his handkerchief onto the piano before starting 😂
I hope Chopin sees this from heaven :)
This man was never a child prodigy and was largely self-taught. He's the best example of an accomplished musician who rose to fame and legend through sheer hard work and passion for music. He had nothing else in him but love for music and art and that drove him to success.
From wikipedia: "Although Neuhaus taught many pianists, including Emil Gilels and Radu Lupu, it is said that he considered Richter to be "the genius pupil, for whom he had been waiting all his life," while acknowledging that he taught Richter "almost nothing."
Largely self taught until he studied Heinrich Neuhaus at the age of 22, but by no means not a prodigious talent.
To say that he had "nothing else in him but love for music and art" and to mention that he wasn't a child prodigy seems to suggest that, in Richter's journey, hard work replaced talent where others thrived on talent alone. This isn't really the case, nor was his musicianship in any way isolated before his studies with Heinrich Neuhaus. No amount of hard work will replace the kind of talent that Richter had, and his musicality and versatility was far greater than even that of most of the most talented performers alive today, judging even from his memory alone. If anything, it rather seems to me that his talent even managed to precede his technical ability (and thus his "hard work") at times; his life performances could occasionally get messy (ex. some performances of the Schumann Fantasy, second movement coda, a notoriously hard section, and Scriabin's Fifth Sonata-- both of these are marked by an impulsivity that can only be accommodated by an immense musicianship and which is virtually extinct in the kind of clinical pianism that thrives on the big concert stages today).
@@chuckjohnson2212 well put!
I was fortunate enough to have heard him play. Nothing like it. Ever!!!! No adjectives. Incomparable.
I got goosebumps all over me while watching this... What dimension does he comes from? He is brilliant, masterful performance.
Hey! I'm five seconds ahead of this person before the last bit at the end, check out my channel, especially the about part on my channel!
Кто-то: в каком темпе ты играешь?
Рихтер: Да
。。。はい?人を超えて神になるつもりか！
i dont want to play the piano anymore...
Al benden de o kadar Victor kardeş..
G OBA Victor anladımı acaba? :)
SzopenPan Türkçe'den başka dil hislerimi anlatamadı. :))
Then I should burn my piano...
Il Lucio hahahah
Non credevo si potesse suonare questo studio in tal modo. È spaventoso. Parola di chi ci ha vinto diversi concorsi, suonandolo!!
あーあこれは別次元の人だな
wow!!! I never heard this etude played so well!
And how many cups of coffee did he drink before playing this?
9,001
This is not to do only with coffee
Harrison Richter So only 9 cups and then a small sip...
That was a comma, not a decimal point...
Harrison Richter Different countries have different rules for that. If you want to write nine thousand and one, just write it out 9001. That way it's not confusing. This is international after all.
Beautiful ! Thank you for posting !
圧巻の早びきで度肝を抜かれました❤
Music world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century Sviatoslav Richter. His virtuoso technique combined with a huge repertoire and depth of interpretation.
You got this of Wikipedia you tool
Small correction, greatet pianist of all time, bar none.
Beautifully played by this great pianist! Chopin has always been my favorite and was played by Cornel Wilde-I think the movie was "A Song To Remember" and was about Chopin's life. He died at a very young age. Thank you for poating this.
the first time I listened, I was swept away by the sheer force and relentlessness of richter's playing...
It's a crazy performance that will go down in history for a long time. Everything about Richter is contained in this short, intense performance. It wasn't just fast, but it also improved the perfect performance musically by utilizing every note. It's a crazy performance.
@Syntaxicity
It's an old tape, if it was sped up it would mess with the pitch. But the pitch is normal.
Seriously too many people with no clue believing it's sped up.......
Believe me, if Richter wanted to, he could play this even faster. This is about 220 bpm, with 100% control. No doubt he could go up to 250 bpm. But he's not trying to break a Guiness Record here, keep that in mind....
But look at how his arms move before he starts. Surely that’s sped up? He moves so unnaturally. But the pitch is accurate. I thought the pitch fluctuates when you change the speed, not if the film is fast from the get-go. It’s not a vinyl on a faster setting after all.
@@dreamer_4937 How the fuck is that unnatural it looks perfectly normal, if you want to see unnatural arm movement before the start of a piece look up Traum Music Scherzo no 1.
The speed record on this etude is by Nikolai Leschenko. However, this version is superior.
@@Santosificationable Nobody cares about world records for music, it's never about how fast you can play it, it's about how fast you think it should be played and how nice it sounds. I guarantee Richter could've played this in around 1:10 but it probably would've been blurry and he may have made some mistakes at that speed.
@;op 4 Please look carefully at the start of the video his hands and arms move way too fast to be human right at the very start to play that first chord. In this video Richter looks very even in all his movements.
We should've understand his craziness when he threw the napkin away.
Totally amazing playing.
if this ever pops up to your recommended im responsible, I watch this video at least one time everyday
Супер ! Великолепно!
Incredible! And just two cuts in this video!
I don't think it was sped up. There exist audio recordings of different concerts with him playing this etude with the same insane speed.
He was just extremely gifted and even more a hardworking and ambitious perfectionist...
Agree. I thought those cuts are related to loss of tape materials rather than willing alterations, what do ya think?
I don’t believe it was purposely sped up, but being an old recording it’s playing just a tad faster than what the actual performance speed was at, imo.
This is one of my most favorite piano pieces.
The shutter speed cannot keep up with his fingers.
4 fps lol
the best pianist ever lived!exceptional!
omg the clarity of each note is incredible
this is the best of the best of all time...genial man...sei un gigante caro sviatoslav....per sempre...
Technically speaking, the first 2 seconds were introductions, so he played it under 1:35, what the hell..............
Indeed, what the hell.
Even at this tempo there are still changes of mood happening, passages of mystery and subdued brooding leading up to, or even during, quicksilver flashes of merriment. Berezowski and Lipatti and others may be able to nearly match the tempo or storminess, but not the range of expressiveness.
I'd say Cziffra's matches the quality of this one. It's around the same speed but there's also a lot of drama going on. It's good in a different way.
at first I thought it was too fast..but the more I listen to Richter playing this, the more it seems a perfect whole to me. Great!
This is one of my favorite video clips.
get that piano to a hospital stat!
This is the best rendition of this piece that I've ever heard, regardless of speed. The technique is superb, and his expression of Chopin feels truly authentic. I personally prefer a tempo more like how Pollini plays, but that's just my taste. Excellent.
You would like Frederic Chiu's?
Wow ! Beautiful ! Thank you for posting :)
Crazy!! on how fast this piece was played and yet his dynamics are all accurate.
guess you could say that this was 'ON' the Richter scale :DDDDD
Such an amazing performance. This is obviously not sped up (the C sharp minor key/pitch is very apparent!). I don't think this performance sounds robotic at all, just fiery and a brilliant show of virtuosity. Stunning!
It should be realized that speeding up a video doesn't necessarily affect pitch, that'd just a movie trick. however, this video is slightly sped up, though not by much. if you look up him playing this, there is another identical recording where it is slightly slower
@@calebhyatt1905 ¿link?
I'm never tired of this video.
Clear articulated phrasing, expressive, original thoughts, insane, absolutely insane speed.
Slava goes to town with this Chopin etude.
Russian voice in beginig: "4th etude is NOT BAD TOO"
Thanks, i always thought its talking of some "beast" lol
Thank you I wonder what he said !
iirc in the documentary he's very humbly saying that his concert was well received by the audience lol, this was one of the encores
Он сказал, вообще-то: "И 4-ый этюд *НА БИС* тоже ничего"
@@RaptorT1V Не думаю, что он прочитает Ваш коммент спустя полгода. Тогда это Ваш шанс написать истинный перевод :).
P.S. И вообще, он будто говорит "Торренто" или как-то так.
Absolutely incredible cosmic tempo and playing..
What a beautiful.... rug!
Certainly an interesting spectacle to see Sviatoslav Richter unleashed...
Когда скорость исполнения не мешает музыке.
Очень точно сказано🤣🔥👌
Но и не помогает..
excelente interpretacion, richter es uno de los mejores pianistas del mundo :P
I once read in an article that the keys in the pianos back then were relatively lighter than those of today. But even so, this is one pure madness!!
WHAT. So intense, so technical, and so musical. Wow. Unbelievable.
PERFECT!!!
i play this etude in about 2:20...
Richter was one of the best solists in the world!!
That's true.
Hell yea.
The best of all time!
the best massacre ever , poor Chopin .
@@alainspiteri502 who are u to say this about richter
@@alainspiteri502 you don't know the classic music for tell this
@@matmm75006 with Richter op10-4 is a Czerny-study and nothing more , j agree the name " Torrent " with Samson François ; here is a massacre poor Chopin à shame
Pravda- je to Bůh i démon klavíru!!! Škoda, že si takovou interpretaci nemohl poslechnout sám Chopin!
No matter how many times I watch this, I still can't believe it.
I doubt whether this video was sped up. If you listen to his 21 February 1960 Prague recital (on RUclips) the performance is only about 3 seconds slower - still very fast. Only in his later years did he slow the pace a significantly (see his Chopin recital at the Barbican, London on RUclips). BTW the Prague recital, in my opinion, is one of the best performances ever of the selected etudes, even though the recording quality is not brilliant.
Are you kidding? This is definitely more like a Richter on the ten scale!
I'm more impressed to see how he so fluidly changes melodies between hands rather than the speed that which the piece goes.
true genius to play so accurately at such great speed
It's not speeded up. I have a live BBC audio recording from London in the 1960s which is even faster!
*sped up
Can you record it and post it on RUclips? Id love to hear it.
I desperately want to see that vid bro
I tried to imagine it played faster and I literally couldn't even imagine it my mind would loose track of the notes lol
Such ease and fluidity...fascinating to read Heinrich Neuhaus's book "The Art of Piano Playing" and get his thoughts on being Richter's teacher. Incredible!
Chopin would have been blown away by this performance!
I saw 1:36 and I thought it was only a part of the Etude. This is inhuman, that ending ..
If music has its own world of record, this one goes down as the fastest ever. No one breaks that tempo since.
It's the equivalent of being faster than the speed of light. No one ever imagine it could be possible.
+remsan03 I don't know? art tatum may have whipped his ass and his stuff was all improvisation.
Art Tatum - Tiger Rag. You will be really surprised :P
It's also a tempo that makes every other interpretation seem off - like they're slogging along at a child's pace - even if they're played well.
This is insanely fast...unbelievable👍🏻
This is peferct and wonderfully played. I like the way Richter play Chopin 's music. Without rubato, very legato and whithout mistake... and not so fast , his Op 10 N° 12 is wonderfull too..
This is the techno version :-)
well done!
はっっっや！！！
そして手が大きい！羨ましい…
I love the no-nonsense approach to this. Dry off the hands..and...BAM!
Fantastisch!!!
watch it on double speed (click the little cog and change speed to 2)... you'll swear youre tripping... :)
Hahahaha! Brilliant! :D
It suddenly sounds like an accelerated mario level!
Inhumano, talento digno de un dios
Good God. This is inhumanly perfect! Thank you for making this known to people!
Um dos maiores pianistas que a
raça humana produziu . Chopin
o aplaudira !
I just compared the tunings - it´s perfect in tune/in the key. That means, if someone has speed it up he must have done so called time stretching in order to stay in the key. And that is an awful lot of work as it has to go along in synchronisation with the video. I can´t imagine someone doing this effort. What for?
もちろん速さが全てではないけど、リシッツァとかキッシンクラスの速弾きピアニスト達でさえも1分40秒後半ぐらいかかってしまうこの曲で、こんなにも速く弾いてしまうのはヤバすぎるw
...I am in awe. I don't know much about this piece, but from what I felt...I loved the way he expressed it. The music was simply OVERWHELMING, and I didn't notice I had a cringe on my face until the clip was over. xD
his fingers were FLYING throughout the piece.
xD I am officially a fan.
I dont know how he can be so precise and at the same time so fast!!!!
Just crazy!!!!!
What a monster!!!
oh wow, now i understand why every said nothing compares to richter's version.
love richter's version of the song. the expression. the fury. perfect.
he plays like that even sitting on that tiny little stool. incredible.
And yet his Schubert 960 is considered by many to the gold standard recording. Talk about versatility.