Sviatoslav Richter plays Debussy L'isle joyeuse - video 1976

[@pghagen]

Some people only seem to count wrong notes in stead of listening to the entire interpretation. Richter was for a long time the best concert pianist in the world.

[@XiyueDeng]

Obviously this isn't Richter's best live performance, but over the years I learned to filter the wrong notes and coughing and I enjoyed it. Richter's BBC recording may be the best live performance we have, but I still find this one more emotional and moving.

[@meredith218461]

My God what an extraordinary performance! Richter seems to consume the whole instrument, and what an awesome climax.

[@gxgxvmc8585]

yeah , right. 17 Huge bumnotes and a lot of stress about playing it smoothly . 4.52-4.55 is my favourite moment . yours?

[@gxgxvmc8585]

actually 4.51-4.58 is one the ''best'' passages of piano disaster. wtf? are you all deaf?

[@radulelutiu7921]

There are various imperfections in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. Let's focus on those instead of everything else.@@gxgxvmc8585

[@shantihealer]

Unparalleled genius of a performance. It has so much going for it that several pages of superlatives could not do it justice.

[@MegaCirse]

I used to listen to this and sit in my living room to watch my plants grow, they were healthy plants! I think my plants liked Debussy's music too

[@photo161]

Magnificent performance that achieves the highest goal of music making; to reveal the greatness of the composition itself, as Richter does here so triumphantly!

[@geoycs]

This is absolutely mind-blowing. From the ferocious playing to the cold look of a Party celebration, truly amazing capture.

[@НадеждаГолик-с8н]

Thank you! Divine Magic!

[@shantihealer]

Miraculous pianism. Incomparable.

[@gxgxvmc8585]

17 audible mistakes . wtf? what is that special about playing that bad? lang lang missed only 2 notes in a full ceaicovsky first piano concerto. what's wrong with you guys? and he plays with fear. he is not relaxed at all.

[@gxgxvmc8585]

4.52-4.55 is my favourite moment . actually 4.51-4.58 is one the ''best'' passages of disaster

[@frimoussevigousse]

@@gxgxvmc8585 What's wrong in my opinion is to consider music simply technically as you do. Richter is regarded as a genius for the emotions he gave... But here there is obviously a misunderstanding between us about what music aims... Best regards from a guy being in the wrong.

[@evandrovilasboascardoso5757]

Bravissimo !!!

[@alexustas2203]

Рихтер бесподобен! Но ещё более интересно видеть удивлённые лица остальных музыкантов! Неожидали такое исполнение от Рихтера услышать!

[@zinam5795]

Просто внимательно слушали--на одном дыхании,с великолепным нарастанием--кульминацией! БРАВО❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@PaulJones-oj4kr]

Das tempo ist ganz wunderbahr

[@odiledrouotlhermine2521]

Richter’s interpretation of l’Ile Joyeuse is ideal : we no longer belong to earth with this view and treatment of the opus. It never has been reached to this stage of perfection to my opinion and feeling...

[@TheosophyinRussia]

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[@stefanufer608]

Bloody hell!

[@thesceptic1018]

Was there an argument with the cushion?

[@juli_gotshal]

Piano tech here; I can tell you that the way this piano is set up, it's not as fast as the pianist

[@BostonBum15]

What the hell is going on here

[@debussychopin2766]

He's a great great pianist but his strength is definitely not debussy interpretation

[@photo161]

L'Isle Joyeuse, or L'isle barbaric..?

[@301250]

More like the latter. His countrywoman, Anna Tsybuleva’s performance shows more Gallic sensibility and less Slavic ferocity!

[@КотКотьев]

Это какой-то советский остров,изображённый героем социалистического труда.Наверное,там делали сталь,на этом острове.

[@pianoredux7516]

Both. The piece is written as a corybantic bacchanal.

[@kareninahsu1382]

Many wrong notes 😢

[@pvonberg]

Oh no, no. Listen to Horowitz. With Horowitz you have super human clarity,incredible color, you can hear the waves of the ocean, you can feel, the sun. much greater delineation of the inner voices. And the orgiastic finish. I mean this is good. But it's also too rushed.

[@Andrea-hm1ix]

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[@brozors]

You do realize you are comparing a polished studio recording (Horowitz) to an encore at the end of a concert? (Richter) It’s an absolutely stupid comparison

[@pvonberg]

@@brozors For your information I heard Horowitz play this live at Carnegie Hall. And then the recording is from that live performance. So don't presume.

[@mustysheep3977]

@@pvonberg With good recording techniques as well, this is a bad recording compared to that

[@nasirferguson4098]

@@mustysheep3977richter i this recording still messes up horribly though as I was typing this he failed to do multiple things

[@eugenemoussu4311]

Is it Debussy ???? and too many faults !!!!

[@MarcelMombeek]

I do not care about wrong notes. I do care about interpretation. And this one, like most of the time with richter (for my ears), is absolutely non-creative, boring and without passion or fire. Together with pollini, ashkenazy, rubinstein and bolet, one of the most non-creative musicians. But, great pianist that's for sure, but you need more to be an "interesting" interpret.

[@nasirferguson4098]

Yeah, I completely agree I cannot stand this, I prefer Lugansky for this piece

[@andreousa5855]

You could not speak more bulshit than that. You should ask the doctor to change your ears for sure. Ask him to keep the Ashkenazi that one is right

[@pianoredux7516]

I vigorously disagree. Without passion or fire?

[@DrTagliacozzi]

If there were a contest for foolish comments, this would take a prize. Richter's reputation among musicians (composers, conductors, artists like Britten, Shostakovich, Oistrakh Rubenstein et al. was, as Glenn Gould put it, "one of the most powerful musical communicators of our time."