i love his facial expressions when he's under pressure to deliver difficult passages. He puts in the effort and he nails it everytime. He cares so much for the correct playback of the notes.
Richter always wanted a dim lighting over the piano keys when performing so that audience would only focus on the music instead of the performer's facial expressions
I'm just obsessed with the opening part from 0:00 - 0:34, also the middle section is amazing, the sprinkles and later on the glissandos and repeated notes always amazes me
Ben G: Me too! Every time I listen to this piece I always play that same opening passage over and over as a bonus treat for myself. Some of the most beautiful harmonies and rhythms of the 20th Century. Ravel, what a Genius! (I think you’d enjoy Kate Liu’s performance recorded when she was just 14. And this same passage is particularly well interpreted. It’s here on RUclips.) 😎🎹
@Marcus Jones: Couldn’t agree more. There isn’t a special enough word to describe just how special Kate Liu is. I hope you’re getting a chance to listen to her newest RUclips offerings: the recent live-streamed recital from Warsaw, and newly uploaded audio from the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition with Chopin’s Barcarolle, and, on a separate upload from the Queen Elisabeth, music of Bach, Beethoven, and Ligeti. 😎🎹
Most probably by far the best performance of this horribly difficult piece! Bravissimo, maestro! I forgot to say that if the piano is not a very good instrument, and very well regulated, for instance like Mr Horowitz piano used to be, we are done with all the repeated notes and glissandi in thirds, fourths...
Fascinating to see the ferocious manner of playing, after hearing Rudolf Barshai describe in the film ruclips.net/video/JXaKlf3y8Y4/видео.html how Richter stayed up all night determined to master this piece.
Thx for upload. Richter's performances always command admiration and respect, but this doesn't mean blind acceptance! The present upload registers an admirable attempt... but IMHO it cannot bear comparison with Dinu Lipatt'is "out of this world" performance... Shared on Google+
I just listened to Lipatti, and I have to agree with you. Besides being a cleaner performance, it doesn't sound rushed, though it is quite fast. Perhaps I'm unduly influenced by Richter's aggressive-looking posture at the piano, but his performance seems like a race against the clock. I admired Richter for a long time, but a while back I listened to a recording of his live performance of Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis, and I swear he seemed to be sight-reading the whole thing. I found it unlistenable.
Well Richter was famous for his sight reading. So was Jogn Ogdon. Without ppl sightreading you would never hear neglected pieces. In fact, the musical professors etc listened to both sight readers. It was sometimes the only way to hear a piece. Yes, there were limits. But appreciation has to be given.
I just listened to Lipati. You may be exaggerating. I found it also messy a bit. Not steady in tempo. And not fluent. Sorry. I disagree with these comments here raving about DL. I don't like this Richter performance very much. But the Lipati is not so much better.
Richter was a magician and this piece is a testament to his genius. His technique has all the contrasts of light and shade; he is rightly considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Where I differ slightly with Arthur Chapin (below) is that Vladimir Horowitz, in my opinion, is on a par with Richter. Classical Stephen
Lipatti's version is more imaginative, but I just find Richter's metronomic stability mesmerizing, except for when he bungles the fast notes. Also the two climaxes in the slow section are more ethereal and Ravelian than Lipatti.
Lipatti beyond criticism, but I love Richter's way with the central folk tale here, just the right aridity of the plains (exquisite sultry-yet-tense timing, extreme legato on cedilla-like mordents etc). The many times I listened to Dinu doing it, I was never this engaged with the middle bit.
Hi, I am a psychology student who is researching social comparison in music as part of my master thesis at the University of Vienna. I want to assess the self-concept of amateur pianists before and after completing a workshkop. As part of the workshop I would like to use this video for demonstration. Therefore, I would like to ask for permission to use it in my study. Of course, I will credit you correctly and link your account! Kind regards, Jennifer
maybe you hear ravel playing this, and no one would like it, but then he would say he didnt intended it to be played neither like this or another, but just a supposition. maybe he would agree all played better than him.
Allan Gray you, nor anyone else alive, has ever heard Liszt play. Liszt isn’t the greatest pianist ever, not even close. He may have been highly important to piano performance and piano literature, but written records show he wasn’t even the most technically skilled of his time. Certainly the best performer, however. More recent pianists like Michelangeli, Richter, Gieseking, Lhevinne, Godowsky, Hofmann, and obviously Hamelin all have/had a far larger technique than Liszt most likely ever had.
chrish12345 huge wrong note in the tenor of the final chord. I think he plays an e flat instead of d. You can see in his body language that he's not happy about it haha. Don't get me wrong, I admire richter and this performance very much I'm just being a pedant
Ez egy igazi, élő előadás. Sokkal jobb, mint Fischer Annie, aki a lemezfelvételein állandóan új hangokat vágatott be, mert rengetegszer hibázott. Gyermekként élőben is hallottam Fischert játszani és két hibát még így is észrevettem. Mindemellett azonban lebilincselő Beethoven interpretátor volt. Kár, hogy Magyarországon mindenkit tönkretett, Cziffra és Rév Lívia miatta menekültek Franciaországba. Richter hibái Fischer mellett eltörpülnek. Ez egy csodás Ravel előadás, amit lehet kritizálni, de véleményem szerint kiemelkedő.
I did. Just now. Not so impressed. I stopped after a minute. Not clear and controlled. Does anyone play this piece without sounding like a tense mess? Bertrand Chamayou does, but he changes the tempo at the measure of the triplets. But at least it's clear and lovely.
Richter once said that he has no interest in playing spanish music. And what is this? Although the composer was french ( de raíces vascas). Even the title of the piece is spanish.
The repeated notes and some of the glissandos are definitely quite messy, but everything else is spectacular, particularly the middle section and the end.
I hate to be that person but this piece does nothing for me. I don’t know if it’s Richters performance or the piece itself. Richter playing seems wonderful and full of bravado but the music is not touching me, it just feels like virtuosity for the sake of virtuosity.
@shadowjuan2, I Get you!..Surely this was originally meant for Orchestra. Therefore it cannot help but sound too busy! I love this live > Alborada del gracioso (Orchestre de Paris, Mikko Franck) or this performance FILARMÓNICA CHECA/SERGIO BAUDO
Re-reading all this now, I'm pretty mortified by that outburst of mine. It's not even true, Richter is a sage, and everyone has their stupid moments, eh? I'll delete it
not a note of music produced here, only notes notes and notes. Empty headed playing like most of the time with richter, listen to his "jeux d'eau", terrible, avoid listening to this pianist.
I must agree that if you've listened to a reasonable range of Richter's playing and find it even a possibility to avoid listening further, then yes, it may be pointless to try and dwell where your imagination cannot access. You could just as well spend your time wisely like Marcel here, by commenting stuff like Usain Bolt can't run for shit, Albert Einstein was a dumbass etc etc etc
i love his facial expressions when he's under pressure to deliver difficult passages. He puts in the effort and he nails it everytime. He cares so much for the correct playback of the notes.
Richter always wanted a dim lighting over the piano keys when performing so that audience would only focus on the music instead of the performer's facial expressions
True, true artist, wants good results
That lip. He's incredibls, well it isn't auditable like Keith Jarrett
I'm just obsessed with the opening part from 0:00 - 0:34, also the middle section is amazing, the sprinkles and later on the glissandos and repeated notes always amazes me
Richter plays the slow sections with all the fear of having to play the fast sections. A++
@Юля Косарева stfu lmao
Fantastische Darbietung, einfach überwältigend und einzig.
anyone else always been obsessed with 0:20 - 0:34
Yesssssssss!!!
Ben G: Me too! Every time I listen to this piece I always play that same opening passage over and over as a bonus treat for myself. Some of the most beautiful harmonies and rhythms of the 20th Century. Ravel, what a Genius!
(I think you’d enjoy Kate Liu’s performance recorded when she was just 14. And this same passage is particularly well interpreted. It’s here on RUclips.) 😎🎹
I think Lipatti's recording is overall better, but this certain passage Richter does just perfect. Incomparable.
Me, love the leitmotif
@Marcus Jones: Couldn’t agree more. There isn’t a special enough word to describe just how special Kate Liu is.
I hope you’re getting a chance to listen to her newest RUclips offerings:
the recent live-streamed recital from Warsaw, and newly uploaded audio from the 2013 Queen Elisabeth Competition with Chopin’s Barcarolle, and, on a separate upload from the Queen Elisabeth, music of Bach, Beethoven, and Ligeti.
😎🎹
Sviatoslav Richter.....numero UNO!!!
Never commented on RUclips before, but this takes the cake. An absurdly difficult piece played fearlessly. Also, the glissandi!
First comment already took an L.
@@jahkneeboi I can't see the L
Check Lipatti version
ruclips.net/video/NnttwEI04V4/видео.html that's also cool performance
Richter the boss.
No… Lipatti better
Great performance ! Thanks for sharing !
Хочется свиснуть,от восторга-Браво,дорогой
Святослав Теофилович!
Вы с нами,мы любим ВАС!!!
23.06.2023.
P.S.Большое СПАСИБО автору канала.
Quite extra-ordinary. Never heard it played (or seen it played) that way before. Remarkable pianism - such control and yet abandon.
Although even in Richter's hands, it still sounds fiendishly difficult to play.
Magnifico Richter!
I love this piece
Speachless!!!!
Gracias!
1:06 Ravel tripping
Lmao
@ENESCU GAY no why are u everywhere
Définitivement le Maître du piano!
Bravo
0:21 is one of the most sentimental things ive ever heard
Stunning. A shame about the audio compression...
Dzięki wielkie! :)
Level: God.
Most probably by far the best performance of this horribly difficult piece! Bravissimo, maestro! I forgot to say that if the piano is not a very good instrument, and very well regulated, for instance like Mr Horowitz piano used to be, we are done with all the repeated notes and glissandi in thirds, fourths...
opening section sounds exotic
Здорово!
BOSS
Best alborada
Agree, his interpretation " Full complete ")
Fajne nagranko, Piotrysko ✌
역시.... 최고다
Beautiful
❤
Dinu Lipatti owns this piece 1000%
好きな人に教えてもらったこの曲も、最初から好きでした。未来の俺達2人へのメッセージとして ここに記します。ラベルありがとう。
2020年12月4日
Real master
Genio
Гениальный Гений.
what????!!!!
That was the craziest piano run at 4:58
이 곡은 리히터가 그냥 존엄이다.
와 글리산도 개미쳤다ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
I know the video says "Alborado", but it is "Alborada". It's spanish language.
thanks
Fascinating to see the ferocious manner of playing, after hearing Rudolf Barshai describe in the film ruclips.net/video/JXaKlf3y8Y4/видео.html how Richter stayed up all night determined to master this piece.
In what time in the video?
1964 год
Do you have a time stamp?
Richter, you fuckin beast!
Thx for upload. Richter's performances always command admiration and respect, but this doesn't mean blind acceptance! The present upload registers an admirable attempt... but IMHO it cannot bear comparison with Dinu Lipatt'is "out of this world" performance... Shared on Google+
I just listened to Lipatti, and I have to agree with you. Besides being a cleaner performance, it doesn't sound rushed, though it is quite fast. Perhaps I'm unduly influenced by Richter's aggressive-looking posture at the piano, but his performance seems like a race against the clock.
I admired Richter for a long time, but a while back I listened to a recording of his live performance of Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis, and I swear he seemed to be sight-reading the whole thing. I found it unlistenable.
Well Richter was famous for his sight reading. So was Jogn Ogdon. Without ppl sightreading you would never hear neglected pieces. In fact, the musical professors etc listened to both sight readers. It was sometimes the only way to hear a piece. Yes, there were limits. But appreciation has to be given.
I just listened to Lipati. You may be exaggerating. I found it also messy a bit. Not steady in tempo. And not fluent. Sorry. I disagree with these comments here raving about DL. I don't like this Richter performance very much. But the Lipati is not so much better.
@@gjeacocke . What are you taking about?
darren motise go to my profile and find out if in doubt.
리히터는 어느 곡을 치던 그 작곡가가 의도한 것을 잘 표현하는것 같습니다.
특히 0:20은 정말 맑고 아름다운 소리가 나네요.1:45에서도 한순간에 곡의 분위기가 바뀌는 것이 놀라워요.
I heard Richter would practice a difficult section of a song for 2 hours
That’s kinda how it is for pianists. Although you are definitely spending way more than 2 hours for a difficult section lol
Richter was a magician and this piece is a testament to his genius. His technique has all the contrasts of light and shade; he is rightly considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Where I differ slightly with Arthur Chapin (below) is that Vladimir Horowitz, in my opinion, is on a par with Richter. Classical Stephen
Still don't understand why it is even possible to do the glissando with 2 & 3 ...
I used to do that. It really hurt but not impossible... But I changed the finger anyway 😂
This piece "belongs" to Lipatti
해석.... 지린다...
!
4:49 Dual Grissand
4:30
Just shut your eyes and listen....
those repeated notes are cleEEAAAAAAAAAAN
Magnificent pianism, but I think I prefer Lipatti's interpretation.
gnorn Clearly.
Lipatti's version is more imaginative, but I just find Richter's metronomic stability mesmerizing, except for when he bungles the fast notes. Also the two climaxes in the slow section are more ethereal and Ravelian than Lipatti.
Check out Bertrand Chamayou’s interpretation too. Beautiful engineering and stellar playing.
Lipatti beyond criticism, but I love Richter's way with the central folk tale here, just the right aridity of the plains (exquisite sultry-yet-tense timing, extreme legato on cedilla-like mordents etc). The many times I listened to Dinu doing it, I was never this engaged with the middle bit.
Hi, I am a psychology student who is researching social comparison in music as part of my master thesis at the University of Vienna. I want to assess the self-concept of amateur pianists before and after completing a workshkop. As part of the workshop I would like to use this video for demonstration. Therefore, I would like to ask for permission to use it in my study. Of course, I will credit you correctly and link your account! Kind regards, Jennifer
Hello, feel free to use this video.
@@pioter2a Thank you!!
フランス音楽？初めて聴きました。教えてくれた人 ありがとう。
也許大家可以比較看看Richter不一樣的版本,這是我在串流上比較眾多版本後比較喜歡的,也好不容易找到了二手CD
ruclips.net/video/MwmdKV_1Y9k/видео.html
Ouch! That was an unfortunate mistake at 1:42.
STÉRILE…
wut is this richter the greatest piano player of all time?!?!?!?
+sunamiassault No. That would be Cziffra in my books.
maybe you hear ravel playing this, and no one would like it, but then he would say he didnt intended it to be played neither like this or another, but just a supposition. maybe he would agree all played better than him.
For me : Richter, Horowitz, Sofronitsky, Kempff, Lipatti
Allan Gray you, nor anyone else alive, has ever heard Liszt play. Liszt isn’t the greatest pianist ever, not even close. He may have been highly important to piano performance and piano literature, but written records show he wasn’t even the most technically skilled of his time. Certainly the best performer, however. More recent pianists like Michelangeli, Richter, Gieseking, Lhevinne, Godowsky, Hofmann, and obviously Hamelin all have/had a far larger technique than Liszt most likely ever had.
1:07
Always interesting to hear richter’s take. Can’t stand when the camera lingers on the pianist’s face. Why do cinematographers do this?
Teofilovich makes anything sound better.
lol @ 1:42
lnicoll100 why?
chrish12345 huge wrong note in the tenor of the final chord. I think he plays an e flat instead of d. You can see in his body language that he's not happy about it haha. Don't get me wrong, I admire richter and this performance very much I'm just being a pedant
lnicoll100 oh ok thanks, I'm not that familiar with the piece
I kept repeating this part to make sure my ears r working well lol the mis-hit note should be b flat
Ez egy igazi, élő előadás. Sokkal jobb, mint Fischer Annie, aki a lemezfelvételein állandóan új hangokat vágatott be, mert rengetegszer hibázott. Gyermekként élőben is hallottam Fischert játszani és két hibát még így is észrevettem. Mindemellett azonban lebilincselő Beethoven interpretátor volt. Kár, hogy Magyarországon mindenkit tönkretett, Cziffra és Rév Lívia miatta menekültek Franciaországba. Richter hibái Fischer mellett eltörpülnek. Ez egy csodás Ravel előadás, amit lehet kritizálni, de véleményem szerint kiemelkedő.
ウオッカでへべれけのロシア人が、精密な機械のように音を奏でるという、究極の矛盾した美が感じられる······とでも言えばいいのか。恐い。
People, you should listen to Lipatti, really ...
I did. Just now. Not so impressed. I stopped after a minute. Not clear and controlled. Does anyone play this piece without sounding like a tense mess? Bertrand Chamayou does, but he changes the tempo at the measure of the triplets. But at least it's clear and lovely.
Richter once said that he has no interest in playing spanish music. And what is this? Although the composer was french ( de raíces vascas). Even the title of the piece is spanish.
pretty messy... but impressive.
It actually is a little messy if you look at the score while listening to this
@M C Oh please. Just stop. Killing the genre?
The repeated notes and some of the glissandos are definitely quite messy, but everything else is spectacular, particularly the middle section and the end.
If you've heard how dinu lipatti performs this piece, you'll never listen this again.
I have and I like them both. What a limited perspective you have.
It's like a sky and the earth. How can you compare them
you just did
So not true. I just listened to DL and found it problematic. Too fast and messy. Not much better than the Richter one here.
lol you got destroyed, nice dude
I hate to be that person but this piece does nothing for me.
I don’t know if it’s Richters performance or the piece itself. Richter playing seems wonderful and full of bravado but the music is not touching me, it just feels like virtuosity for the sake of virtuosity.
@shadowjuan2, I Get you!..Surely this was originally meant for Orchestra. Therefore it cannot help but sound too busy! I love this live > Alborada del gracioso (Orchestre de Paris, Mikko Franck) or this performance FILARMÓNICA CHECA/SERGIO BAUDO
All kudos to Richter, and his technique., but I would never reccomend this as an approach to this piece. Ever.
@M C you are quite correct.
How come? If there's anything wrong with this I would say it's the technique not the approach.
Re-reading all this now, I'm pretty mortified by that outburst of mine. It's not even true, Richter is a sage, and everyone has their stupid moments, eh? I'll delete it
@@stynway59 I’ve done that sort of thing more times than I can count
Expired.
Noise. I am surprised that Richter lowered himself to play this stuff…
How can you call ravel music "noise" shame on you
Almost complete empty interpretation...
not a note of music produced here, only notes notes and notes. Empty headed playing like most of the time with richter, listen to his "jeux d'eau", terrible, avoid listening to this pianist.
I must agree that if you've listened to a reasonable range of Richter's playing and find it even a possibility to avoid listening further, then yes, it may be pointless to try and dwell where your imagination cannot access. You could just as well spend your time wisely like Marcel here, by commenting stuff like Usain Bolt can't run for shit, Albert Einstein was a dumbass etc etc etc
4:50
4:38