Cannot believe I'm sitting in my house on my couch listening to **Richter** play Schubert! A god of the piano plays a god of composition. Just the 3 of us, and all of you. Suddenly life's not so terrible.
I agree. But Schubert always makes things better. Even ideal. It's just not that difficult to believe. Are you aware that Richter recordings of Schubert were available in the previous millenia?
Yesterday I woke up humming this melody. I didn't recall which work it was, neither its composer. So I was thinking all day about it, and somehow I remembered it was a Schubert sonata. I went through all of them until I found it! Such a simple yet beautiful melody, it stays with you forever!
Schubert - A role model to many Richter - An inspiration to many RUclips - The bridge to world-class music *Thanks to one & all* and of course, to the uploader
Schubert's electric sonatas are specially recreated at Richter's fingertips. Every song sounds special when he plays it. It was a beautiful performance, shining like a star in the night sky.
It is absolutely extraordinary to hear (and see!) Richter playing Schubert. Apart from the sheer beauty of the sound he catches something mercurial in the music as well as an deep vein of melancholy. Thank you so much for sharing
You are not the only one. People from different ages, cultures, countries, genders, religions cry when they hear Richter playing. No one can stand the unique and universal truth he "speaks" when he plays. Every truthfully listening soul wants to unify with the music itself, when Richter plays
When it comes to Schubert, it’s only Richter, no one else even from 20th century’s greats is not nearly in the same zip code with Schubert as Richter is. Bach had to wait 250 years for Gould, Schubert had to wait 150 years for Richter so people could finally hear not only the notes of this miraculous music, but feel that unique subtle Austrian spirit of Sehnsucht, as simple as that, and it just can’t get any better. Absolute perfection.
"Sehnsucht" I was looking for that word. It is to be found in the austrian but even more in the german classical genre. Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms, they were all masters at the game.
Questa sonata è incantevole e Richter ne dà una interpreazione straordinaria. È proprio ispirato.come direbbe lui : " possiedo la chiave di Schubert" . Ed è proprio così.
This sonata was probably composed during the summer 1819. It is not a work of the last period of Schubert, raher of his very early maturity. The first movement is awfully beautiful thanks to his singing first theme. The sonata is in three movements. The rendering of Richter is already supernatural by its melodic flow and his hideen but efficient structure. It is for sure one of the best renderings of this sonata.
Gerard, "it is for sure one of the best renderings..." REALLY! I heard Lily Kraus play this in concert and we were on the edge of our seats! I'm sleeping through this! BEST RENDERINGS? No! Poor old Richter fell off his throne on this one! BORING!
Yes, ‘The Rendering’ . That’s the term which could represent Richter while I am looking for long long time. He must have fantastic hearing capability to differentiate the tone’s color for each note, then tune them by playing.
Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieser fein komponierten Klaviersonate im gut phrasierten Tempo mit anmütigem Anschlag und angenehmer Dynamik. Echt faszinierend!
One has to recognize the absolutely superb interpretation of András Schiff, where you can definitely feel the magic of Schubert, but 'Slava' has Schubert's magic at such level where there will be not a single unmagical period...not a single note that would not represent that unbroken hovering over space and time.
Except for death and dying and dragging the shit out of this beautiful YOUTHFUL sonata. WHAT HAPPENED to Richter? He must have had a bad day when he played this one! God, how can you NOT fall asleep in the 1st 2 movements? Finally, though Richter wakes up in the 3rd, and that's worth a listen. I can skip the rest!
@@mikekarren5010 I listened to it again, to see if I'd missed something. Maybe the actual tempo of the first movement is a tad under but it is only marked Allegro moderato. It's perfectly possible to imagine this as a nice brisk walk through pleasant countryside, with nice company and not a care in the world. Personally I like what Richter finds here, which is something more complex. There are no right or wrong answers just choices. For me it works wonderfully and the sheer beauty of the playing I find quite magical.
I said for me.............and obviously about thats I know............always there is another "best" in order at the style of music, but looking the picture, beetwen all the big pianist, for me he is the best........
the more you listen, the less subjective the experience. Richter is no doubt a formidable force, but he is a B student at best compared to the true geniuses of our time. He doesn't come close to Schiff and there's nothing "for me" about it.
Wie hätte Schubert sich wohl weiterentwickelt. Er betrieb ja in seiner "späten" Lebensphase noch Kontrapunktstudien. Ich vermute: Das was wir so bewundern sind geniale Jugendwerke. Bemerkenswert ist aber trotzdem: Seine ersten Symphonien zeigen trotzdem Lernbedarf. Allerdings haben sich z.B. Beethoven und Brahms mehr Zeit mit den ersten Symphonien gelassen. Eine meisterhafte Interpretation von Richter!
Wie Joachim Kaiser schon in den Sechzger-Jahren in seinem Pianistenbuch im Zusammenhang mit Richters Spiel der (vor allem frühen und mittleren) Beethoven-Sonaten drauf hingewiesen - offenbart Richter auch hier immer wieder seinen Sinn für die sich durch das ganze Werk ziehende Struktur: da fällt nichts raus; auch bei Schubert hören wir die Einheit - "da fällt nichts raus".
Микеланджели назвал Рихтера первым пианистом, не говоря о всём творчестве СВЯТОСЛАВА, уже одна эта запись гениальной сонаты ШУБЕРТА подтверждает мнение ГЕНИАЛЬНОГО АРТУРА !
@@ЕленаБелякова-ю3у yes, I totally agree with you! Sviatoslav Richter is the greatest genius of all. When he plays Schubert it is sheer magic, sheer beauty, lots of emotions. He is the most powerful communicator amongst the piano players. But not only Schubert, also Bach, Händel, Schumann and the different Russian composers, nearly everything what he plays turns into gold! Think of Pictures at an Exhibition of Moussorgsky! He is truly a magician, a wizzard on the piano!!
The andante is beyond words. It is also in many ways deceptive by its simplicity. Some harmonies are premonitory of jazz and modern classicism of ravel and Debussy
I have never forgotten the first movement melody. Schubert was a genius, and I would love to have heard a first piano concerto from him had he not died at only 31. Would he have written us one? Richter, here, is telling us a story about the heart of Schubert. (Too bad this Richter video is slightly out of sync. We can forgive that, though.)
When i listen to richter play the 2nd movement i just sit and think what can possibly go wrong? And guess what? Nothing goes wrong. Sublime from start to finish. Richters schubert is beyond words but i try to put it into words what these two great spirits mean to me.
In the documentary "Richter the Enigma" watch?v=iVhxqEN9j7k&t=3712s, he stated that he usually practised 3 hours per day, but 10-12 hours when he had to learn a piece at short notice
I think Richter is one of the best player of Schubert, together with Alfred Brendl. However, I slightly prefer Richter. His bouncing touching of the notes with ""ff or sf" are much more powerful yet with great purity and clarity that makes the sudden change in the tempo of the pieces much more impressive and expressive.
Richter is both types. His technical armory was the equal of Horowitz's or any of the great technicians. Richter, like all the greatest musicians, makes no distinction between the technical and the musical.
It’s as if there is no “interpretation” taking place. This is how I imagine the music sounded when Schubert himself played it. Alternatively, if this is the art that conceals art, then the concealment is perfect. Where today are the musicians of this calibre?
@@penmerch2804As much as I adore them, they are not Richter's equal. Even in regards to intelligence, Richter beats them by a large margin. You seriously don't understand how all encompassing Richter's vision was.
Y dijo el egregio y gran maestro del piano Emil Gilels: si les he gustado yo, esperen a escuchar a Richter. Un genio, no hay duda...el otro tambien lo era (en Gilels era cada nota lla que se calibraba y en Richter, maestro del legato, era la sucesión de ellas: lo qu sucede entre dos notas).
Соната эта всегда напоминает весну. 2. ое движение, вот тишина в лесу вокруг Вены 19. ого века, природа дремлет после зимы. А 3. дв., дети весело играют в колесо.
Richter is in schubert what gould is in bach. Having said that i also love to hear richter play bach. I dont think gould ever played schubert or i might be mistaken.
I enjoy playing this sonata, but I cring when I think of Richter, the giant, playing it, on film, no less! My wife saw him live, in Philly in the early sixties, but I was not so lucky!!
Que interprtacion ta perfecta ,posicion de manos .Voy a averiguar en su biografia ,por que la melancolia; no me acuerdo de su modo de ser .Lei las biografias para niños y las demas veces ,cuando cresi .varias de todos ellos
Like Chopin , experienced deep emotional trauma of his country's destiny since young, Richter's father a German pianist teaching in Odessa (Little Russia now Ukraine) was expelled twice in Moscow conservatory in the first year for refusing political classes (like his mother). Later he learned his father was excited before German came to Odessa, mother had to remarry and changed names. Great musicians have deep emotional feelings: Rachmaninoff went thru red Revolution and the execution of the Czar family, became US citizen the year he died 1943.
Cannot believe I'm sitting in my house on my couch listening to **Richter** play Schubert! A god of the piano plays a god of composition. Just the 3 of us, and all of you. Suddenly life's not so terrible.
I agree. But Schubert always makes things better. Even ideal. It's just not that difficult to believe. Are you aware that Richter recordings of Schubert were available in the previous millenia?
IKR?
@@johncitizen9540 No, I had absolutely no idea Richter's recordings of Schubert were available anywhere before the invention of RUclips.
You told it! +1
@@frederickmenu3140 You told what?
Yesterday I woke up humming this melody. I didn't recall which work it was, neither its composer. So I was thinking all day about it, and somehow I remembered it was a Schubert sonata. I went through all of them until I found it! Such a simple yet beautiful melody, it stays with you forever!
the second movement is a masterpiece. I could listen to this all day and night…
Schubert - A role model to many
Richter - An inspiration to many
RUclips - The bridge to world-class music
*Thanks to one & all* and of course, to the uploader
Schubert's electric sonatas are specially recreated at Richter's fingertips. Every song sounds special when he plays it. It was a beautiful performance, shining like a star in the night sky.
My ULTIMATE pianist...touches my soul with his playing...
Absolutely!
그의 아름다운 피아노 선율은 이 낡은 음질을 이기고 살아 남았다. 가슴 시리게 아름답다.
It is absolutely extraordinary to hear (and see!) Richter playing Schubert. Apart from the sheer beauty of the sound he catches something mercurial in the music as well as an deep vein of melancholy. Thank you so much for sharing
I have heard him for hours and hours but I had never seen a video of Richter up to now... thanks a lot!
1. Allegro moderato - 00:02
2. Andante - 11:45
3. Allegro - 18:18
Thanks!
+Matt Read :-)
Thank you a lot for this
I'm sitting at my piano listening to him while following along with my book and thinking how beautiful!!
I'm speechless.
When i listening this recording aways would like to cry!!!!! He is my favorite pianist while i am alive!!!! :))
You are not the only one. People from different ages, cultures, countries, genders, religions cry when they hear Richter playing. No one can stand the unique and universal truth he "speaks" when he plays. Every truthfully listening soul wants to unify with the music itself, when Richter plays
So am I!
Me too, I think the old quality makes it nostalgic...
A mi també m'agrada, però crec que aquest pianista encara es viu. Potser amb això del coronavirus ja no hi sigui
When it comes to Schubert, it’s only Richter, no one else even from 20th century’s greats is not nearly in the same zip code with Schubert as Richter is. Bach had to wait 250 years for Gould, Schubert had to wait 150 years for Richter so people could finally hear not only the notes of this miraculous music, but feel that unique subtle Austrian spirit of Sehnsucht, as simple as that, and it just can’t get any better. Absolute perfection.
Radu Lupu.
I agree with you, except that I love Richter's recordings of Bach more that I do Gould's.
"Sehnsucht" I was looking for that word. It is to be found in the austrian but even more in the german classical genre. Schumann, Beethoven, Brahms, they were all masters at the game.
Lazar Berman's D960 is also out of this world.
I agree with every word you said.
Questa sonata è incantevole e Richter ne dà una interpreazione straordinaria. È proprio ispirato.come direbbe lui : " possiedo la chiave di Schubert" . Ed è proprio così.
The first time to see Richter playing not off the score. Glorious! Both the piece and the playing.
Yes I noticed the same!!!
@@justinandmaxgames5472 Richter put score only after 60 yo. After memorizing about 300 recital programs and 50 concertos.
Andante extraordinaire ! Quelque chose comme la dignité absolue de l'âme humaine.
This sonata was probably composed during the summer 1819. It is not a work of the last period of Schubert, raher of his very early maturity. The first movement is awfully beautiful thanks to his singing first theme. The sonata is in three movements. The rendering of Richter is already supernatural by its melodic flow and his hideen but efficient structure. It is for sure one of the best renderings of this sonata.
Gerard, "it is for sure one of the best renderings..." REALLY! I heard Lily Kraus play this in concert and we were on the edge of our seats! I'm sleeping through this! BEST RENDERINGS? No! Poor old Richter fell off his throne on this one! BORING!
Yes, ‘The Rendering’ . That’s the term which could represent Richter while I am looking for long long time. He must have fantastic hearing capability to differentiate the tone’s color for each note, then tune them by playing.
@@mikekarren5010 some people are musical, some are not
Shubert's piano music that he plays is beyond beautiful 🎉
Wunderschöne live Aufführung dieser fein komponierten Klaviersonate im gut phrasierten Tempo mit anmütigem Anschlag und angenehmer Dynamik. Echt faszinierend!
Deep warm touch/sound - a real trance.
A great, great pianist...Thank you !
wonder of wonders. such sweet melancholy. Just him and Schubert with nothing getting i the way.
One has to recognize the absolutely superb interpretation of András Schiff, where you can definitely feel the magic of Schubert, but 'Slava' has Schubert's magic at such level where there will be not a single unmagical period...not a single note that would not represent that unbroken hovering over space and time.
Except for death and dying and dragging the shit out of this beautiful YOUTHFUL sonata. WHAT HAPPENED to Richter? He must have had a bad day when he played this one! God, how can you NOT fall asleep in the 1st 2 movements? Finally, though Richter wakes up in the 3rd, and that's worth a listen. I can skip the rest!
@@mikekarren5010 I listened to it again, to see if I'd missed something. Maybe the actual tempo of the first movement is a tad under but it is only marked Allegro moderato. It's perfectly possible to imagine this as a nice brisk walk through pleasant countryside, with nice company and not a care in the world. Personally I like what Richter finds here, which is something more complex. There are no right or wrong answers just choices. For me it works wonderfully and the sheer beauty of the playing I find quite magical.
流石，巨匠ト呼ばれる人の演奏はすごい｡音楽を楽しみながら｡よどみなく歌い上げていくすごさ。流石リヒテル。
Wie aus einer anderen Zeit - und dann noch in diesem sakralen Raum. Er muss sehr berührt gewesen sein.
So stimmig alles.
One thing for sure, this haunting melody still rings in my ears.
A glory of the piano........for me the best between the bests..........
You don't know the bests at all
I said for me.............and obviously about thats I know............always there is another "best" in order at the style of music, but looking the picture, beetwen all the big pianist, for me he is the best........
the more you listen, the less subjective the experience. Richter is no doubt a formidable force, but he is a B student at best compared to the true geniuses of our time. He doesn't come close to Schiff and there's nothing "for me" about it.
"For honor"
a....hu..eh ?.... how is that possible ?
Благодарю!
Мы помним и любим
Вас,Святослав Теофилович-Вы наше
достояние!
Che grande pianista!!!!!! L' andante è di una bellezza sconvolgente!!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing this jewel!
grazie tanto Vittoria per questo meraviglioso augurio di buon anno. Una vera speranza luminosa
Die Kostbarkeit einiger früheren Werke Schuberts ist erhaben. Diese Sonate, das Forellenquintett, einige Lieder. Wunderbar.
Wie hätte Schubert sich wohl weiterentwickelt. Er betrieb ja in seiner "späten" Lebensphase noch Kontrapunktstudien. Ich vermute: Das was wir so bewundern sind geniale Jugendwerke. Bemerkenswert ist aber trotzdem: Seine ersten Symphonien zeigen trotzdem Lernbedarf. Allerdings haben sich z.B. Beethoven und Brahms mehr Zeit mit den ersten Symphonien gelassen. Eine meisterhafte Interpretation von Richter!
Рихтер_великий пианист из всех !
Wie Joachim Kaiser schon in den Sechzger-Jahren in seinem Pianistenbuch im Zusammenhang mit Richters Spiel der (vor allem frühen und mittleren) Beethoven-Sonaten drauf hingewiesen - offenbart Richter auch hier immer wieder seinen Sinn für die sich durch das ganze Werk ziehende Struktur: da fällt nichts raus; auch bei Schubert hören wir die Einheit - "da fällt nichts raus".
Микеланджели назвал Рихтера
первым пианистом, не говоря о
всём творчестве СВЯТОСЛАВА,
уже одна эта запись гениальной
сонаты ШУБЕРТА подтверждает
мнение ГЕНИАЛЬНОГО АРТУРА !
Не могли бы Вы указать источник, где и когда Микеланджели сказал так о Рихтере?
Это понятно и без слов кого - либо....Он Первый и Единственный...Шуберт в исполнении Рихтера - это счастье....
@@ЕленаБелякова-ю3у yes, I totally agree with you! Sviatoslav Richter is the greatest genius of all. When he plays Schubert it is sheer magic, sheer beauty, lots of emotions. He is the most powerful communicator amongst the piano players. But not only Schubert, also Bach, Händel, Schumann and the different Russian composers, nearly everything what he plays turns into gold! Think of Pictures at an Exhibition of Moussorgsky! He is truly a magician, a wizzard on the piano!!
The andante is beyond words. It is also in many ways deceptive by its simplicity. Some harmonies are premonitory of jazz and modern classicism of ravel and Debussy
what a sound!!!!!
This was filmed in 1978, apparently with no audience present.
Beyond words
Played the third movement of this- so nice!
Interesting, ( to a much lesser degree than Gould) he seems to ‘talk’ quietly to the music also. So peaceful!
I have never forgotten the first movement melody. Schubert was a genius, and I would love to have heard a first piano concerto from him had he not died at only 31. Would he have written us one? Richter, here, is telling us a story about the heart of Schubert. (Too bad this Richter video is slightly out of sync. We can forgive that, though.)
Insondable et d'une telle évidence. La grâce!
When i listen to richter play the 2nd movement i just sit and think what can possibly go wrong? And guess what? Nothing goes wrong. Sublime from start to finish. Richters schubert is beyond words but i try to put it into words what these two great spirits mean to me.
And all from the mind of a 22 year old visionary.
Absolutely fabulous. Great mastery of the piano keyboard.
He might have spent at least 20,000 hours practice to achieve this higher level of mastery.
mxkeita and the rest!
In the documentary "Richter the Enigma" watch?v=iVhxqEN9j7k&t=3712s, he stated that he usually practised 3 hours per day, but 10-12 hours when he had to learn a piece at short notice
I think Richter is one of the best player of Schubert, together with Alfred Brendl. However, I slightly prefer Richter.
His bouncing touching of the notes with ""ff or sf" are much more powerful yet with great purity and clarity that makes the sudden change in the tempo of the pieces much more impressive and expressive.
So sublime ~~
Enchanting. Absolutely enchanting!!
L'andante è magnifico.
Wooww just perfect.one ond only for all time.
Sorry, I don't have any more details for this recording, but I would also guess that it's from the early 80s.
Two types of pianist : technical and musical....Richter is the second type 👍👍👍
Richter is both types. His technical armory was the equal of Horowitz's or any of the great technicians. Richter, like all the greatest musicians, makes no distinction between the technical and the musical.
@@tobiolopainto if you read his many volumes of Conversations with several friends (not only Monsaingeon) then you see that he often does
Wow....hervorragend! Toll!
シューベルト。歌曲も、素晴らしいけど、ピアノ曲が、大好きです。初期の頃の、後、晩年の頃の、ピアノ曲素晴らしいです。歌曲王って、言うより、ピアノ王な感じ。リヒテルさんも、素晴らしいです!
las manos de un genio.
It’s as if there is no “interpretation” taking place. This is how I imagine the music sounded when Schubert himself played it. Alternatively, if this is the art that conceals art, then the concealment is perfect. Where today are the musicians of this calibre?
Musicians of this calibre - Sokolov and Volodos (to name but two)
Keep looking for the next 600 years.
@@penmerch2804As much as I adore them, they are not Richter's equal. Even in regards to intelligence, Richter beats them by a large margin. You seriously don't understand how all encompassing Richter's vision was.
ВЕРШИНА ПИАНИЗМА !
Finally, I'm hearing Adagio with correct Tempo--Rhithm!
It’s Andante.
But I still adore his playing.
V o r a l l e m in korrekt 3/4 eingeordnet, - und n i c h t in 3+3 6 achtel, - wie es allgemein üblich, sogar bei den "Grössten" auch.
Y dijo el egregio y gran maestro del piano Emil Gilels: si les he gustado yo, esperen a escuchar a Richter.
Un genio, no hay duda...el otro tambien lo era (en Gilels era cada nota lla que se calibraba y en Richter, maestro del legato, era la sucesión de ellas: lo qu sucede entre dos notas).
Соната эта всегда напоминает весну. 2. ое движение, вот тишина в лесу вокруг Вены 19.
ого века, природа дремлет после зимы. А 3. дв., дети весело играют в колесо.
Thank you!
Bravísimo!
You could touch a bag of dirt, Slava, and it would turn into pure gold..
o, yes ! !
He would've loved the implication that a Schubert sonata is bag of dirt
punkpoetry wrong assumption on your part.
@@c.g.marseille4510
❤🥰🥰🥰❤
@@박성희-r1p thank you ! !
Richter is in schubert what gould is in bach. Having said that i also love to hear richter play bach. I dont think gould ever played schubert or i might be mistaken.
МСС(ц)МШ имени Гнесиных представляет
I Часть
ГП - 0:01
ПП - 1:07
II Часть
11:45
II Часть
18:18
J'adore!
Excelente!
Это так сентиментально, hearty, nice.
top of the top
2- 11:47
3- 18:19 -22:12
素晴らしいです～。シュベルトピアノの、仏さんです。
you need endless skill to interpret it so crisply at 22.35
신이다 ...그는 신이다...
Actually he died in 1997, 1 august.
Maestro
Richter is also the greatest player of schumann.
Beautiful performance, but why people upload videos that are so obviously out of sync bewilders me.
Лучше нельзя!
Да...
I would forego all of beethovens piano sonatas and just listen to this one by schubert til the day i die.
ClassicVault 1 when was made this recording ? Thanks!
I enjoy playing this sonata, but I cring when I think of Richter, the giant, playing it, on film, no less!
My wife saw him live, in Philly in the early sixties, but I was not so lucky!!
His hands look abit like mine. Thats the only parallel i can draw unfortunately. Richter was and is the greatest especially in the romantic music
Denis, you are rigth.
I think there is an error. The sonata No 11 in A(1819,D 664). The No 13 is D840.
somebody once commented that Richter's hands looked like he could bench-press 200 lbs with his pinky finger.this andante though......
Интересно, в каком году это записано?
Шуберт + Рихтер - вне времени....
1978
Which year and where was this record?
hello, do you know when was this recorded? thank you!
Transcendant...
Exactement !
Excellent Week-end :)
Where was this filmed?
Que interprtacion ta perfecta ,posicion de manos .Voy a averiguar en su biografia ,por que la melancolia; no me acuerdo de su modo de ser .Lei las biografias para niños y las demas veces ,cuando cresi .varias de todos ellos
yet to be equaled, after all these years....
No timeline!?
Im Legendenton
Like Chopin , experienced deep emotional trauma of his country's destiny since young, Richter's father a German pianist teaching in Odessa (Little Russia now Ukraine) was expelled twice in Moscow conservatory in the first year for refusing political classes (like his mother). Later he learned his father was excited before German came to Odessa, mother had to remarry and changed names. Great musicians have deep emotional feelings: Rachmaninoff went thru red Revolution and the execution of the Czar family, became US citizen the year he died 1943.
His father was shot in front of him.
Schubert...Richter...un binomio ultraterreno....chissà come sarebbe Schubert interpretato da Michelangeli...😮
He died in 1997
❤1978
Сонаты Шуберта лучше всех
в исполнении Микеланджели и
Рихтера, великих пианистов мира.
Kak jali ! Ia nie govoriou po rousski.
Andre Watts recording of this sonata's the best
Solomon
Видео и звук не совпадают!!! Картинка опережает звук , ужас