Richter plays Beethoven
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- Has anyone noticed that he pulls the same faces as Morrisey?
- keelan111, any decent pianist can do that; most choose not to bring out individual voices when playing music that's not contrapuntal.
- Perfect musician though Richter was, he got all flustered when somebody brought up Glenn Gould's inimitable ability to bring out the voices in 4 part harmony. He said something to the effect of "O ya! I could do that if I really wanted to! RLY GUISE!!"
- i almost cried.
- Genius
- As much as I admire Richter in general, I think this is, for him anyway, a poor performance. Off-hand, brusque, too uniformly loud. This piece needs above all Innigkeit, and I think that is missing here.
- Classical: "of ... the formally and artistically more sophisticated and enduring types of music ...". Maybe we should use "rococo" for the classical period, to avoid confusion. And what's with pre-1900? Plenty of greats post-1900: Rachmaninoff, Strauss, Sibelius, Elgar, Rodrigo, Villa-Lobos ... & the moderns: Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofieff, Bartok, Schoenberg, Britten, etc. There will be many more. Not all of it big stuff. This is a mere bagatelle.
- Horowitz (for most of his career) was first a showman and technician and secondly, an artist. Thats not to say his playing was dull. He was awesome. But it wasn't until much later in life that he started to show the emotion that Richter did. Richter could pretty much hold his own against Horowitz technically. But he also had an artistic dimension that made him more interesting. Horowitz reputedly once said that the only contemporary Russian pianist whose playing he liked was Richter.
- One of the rare artists who puts himself so much into the music that you feel closer to the composer. Have loved his recordings since first hearing him in the 70s.
- haha. funny shit.
- Great performance! ----------------------------- Rolf, Netherlands. I am a collector of classical 78's and lp's Click "otterhouse" above to see (and hear!) some of my collection.
- and this is one of his mellowest pieces
- Mothah fuckah plays a piano like a g, man!
- nope not a dad just gay =]
- thanks dad, for that lesson.
- a piece of music cannot in it's self have a sexuality. So obviously you were using gay as a synonym for bad or worthless, i would suggest that you expand your vocabulary.
- So clear, so open, open to me, to us, to everyone! Light and heavy at the same time.
- THank you! Classical pianists aren't dancing bears (or shouldn't be). Anyone who wants to see someone act out music needs to go to the opera. Even there, good luck finding a singer who puts so much music and depth of emotion, without the distractions of circus antics. Instrumental music is the human condition in sound, at best, and that's what Richter conveys, without distracting displays of visual antics. He remains one of the greatest musicians, and master of his art.
- deflep is a mother f(_)cker, f(_)cking b!tch i f(_)cked your mother yesterday, so hard she was actually barking that ugIy wh0re
- gladly
- jesus christ, I held back from using profanity and tried to be cool, but you've turned out to be a real idiot and an asshole. Almost everyone, even in the classical community, casually uses the term "classical" to describe all the periods, until they want to get specific. Go fuck yourself, seriously
- thats why youre a dipshit, it doesn't encompass all periods
- I was using classical as a general term to encompass all periods. On second listen it really isn't all that bad. Thank you for the courteous response!
- I was using classical as a general term to encompass all periods. On second listen it really isn't all that bad. Thank you for the courteous response!
- I was using classical as a general term to encompass all periods. On second listen it really isn't all that bad. Thank you for the courteous response!
