Liszt - Feux follets - Richter Moscow 1958

[@biegel88]

It is wonderful to hear this. What we cannot hear in these quality recordings is the color and dynamic range that would have been heard in the concert hall. But it is clean as a whistle. I also wish there was a recording of Josef Lhevinne playing it. Adele Marcus, his protege, played it and taught it the way she remember Lhevinne played it and taught it to her.

[@pianosenzanima1]

Good day Mr. Biegel! If I may ask, what is your opinion about one of Cziffra's live performances of this? Thank you!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4W1gHZjedNssNE

[@roneven3420]

I really wish Lhevinne's recording of Feux Follets was available anywhere.

[@paulmayerpiano]

Well, this finally settles who gets my vote for "Best Classical Pianist Ever". It's not that this just that this performance is so great - obviously it is - it's just that he excelled at everything in the standard piano repertoire (except Mozart, by his own admission). The other greats had one or two, maybe ever three "specialties". Richter played everything, by everyone, and sounded great doing it.

[@bvbwv3]

Have you heard this: Vladimir Ashkenazy - Liszt Feux Follets (live Carnegie Hall, 1969)

[@LisztyLiszt]

Amazing live performance. Berman also has an amazing recording of the full set.

[@mattshum1350]

What's amazing about this is that he brings out the melancholic, pensive nature of the piece, the Mendelssohnian aspect. Like a somewhat lonely person watching out his window at butterflies flying in his garden --- Richter had the same way with Ravel's Jeux d'eau, the pensive onlooker.

[@antoniofernandez-albalatga5731]

EXCEPCIONAL INTERPRETACION. ¡HISTORICA!

[@notaire2]

Obwohl die Tonqualität nicht ideal ist, klingt diese live Aufführung im inspirierenden Tempo echt faszinierend mit gut artikuliertem Klang und perfekt kontrollierter Dynamik. Einfach wunderbar!

[@789armstrong]

Awesome! Possibly even greater than his legendary Concert in Sofia.

[@pR-ms4cr]

Cziffra absolute best

[@vivienmerchant]

No-one, but no-one (except perhaps Liszt!) ever captured this exquisite, feathery, slightly manic and technically unbelievably difficult work better than this performance (and in the more famous one from the same year in Sofia). I just don't know how Richter did it, and boy, have I tried over the years! It's about maintaining gossamer lightness and speed, despite the double thirds, sixths and other nightmares. Fundamentally it's a piece of air, and, in Richter's own words, slightly suspicious; it can border on the vulgar if not handled with immense taste, and conversely, too much taste kills the piece. For example, the passagework 0.43 to 1.03 and from 2.05 to 2.17 should combine total delicacy with borderline camp wit to the point of a giggle - and let it be known that, despite many rumours to contrary, Richter was certainly alert to this often overlooked aspect of Liszt. Richter gets it absolutely "au point" in this marvellous moment. This performance is remarkably similar to the one from Sofia, but it IS from Moscow - in the same year. The magic of about three minutes and some seconds is breathtakingly successful, shining through all the limitations of the primitive live recording (coughs, sputters, mono, no hint of acoustic space - it could have been recorded through a tunnel) .The fact that Richter worked for hours, days, years and through hundreds of performances to achieve it throws a great deal of light onto just how hard it all is!

[@zamyrabyrd]

Try Berezovsky who does it in 3:10, seemingly winning the race for the fastest timing.

[@BudhaXIII]

zamyrabyrd If you judge music by "fastest timing", may God have mercy on your soul.

[@lczq6737]

Kissin? He has much more clarity. But I guess it has something to do with the recording this one is older

[@eliehrlich2031]

@@lczq6737 the kissin recording is extremely good and yeah I think that if this was recorded with the same quality equipment it would be substantially better sounding probably equal with the kissin recording

[@sergeprodhomme5117]

Magnifiquement bien interprété par le maestro virtuose ! 🙂

[@guidotoninibossi4251]

Il magico suono legatissimo di Richter

[@luigig8656]

Simply superb. Simply unmatchable. Compare this unbeliavbly deep and thourough and inhumane execution with the superficiality of one YUNCHAN LIM for example!

[@moacirdreger1716]

Magnífico!

[@mgueneyman]

No pianist interpreted this piece -or what its title suggests-, better than the miraculous Richter .

[@MilaGontcharova]

Вы так уверены в своём заявлении? Valentin Bogolubov - is best!

[@Rudel23]

This and Askenazy the greatest Feux Follets, to my opinion

[@andrewkennaugh1065]

Yes...😊

[@g.kech.10]

Arrau is close but his interpretation is warmer and slower. Also consider Berman and Cziffra in the style of Richter.

[@louisehollyhead6807]

And Berezovsky too...

[@j.vonhogen9650]

​@@g.kech.10- Arrau always played slow, often too slow and sometimes way too slow. He was an excellent musician though.

[@g.kech.10]

@@j.vonhogen9650 Nothing against, he is one of my favourite pianists...

[@amgx9670]

do you guys like this piece itself musically?

[@geuros]

More than several others of your compositions.

[@amgx9670]

@@geuros like what

[@geuros]

@@amgx9670 Grand Gallop Chromatique for example

[@amgx9670]

@@geuros i'll say this from my own pov, not liszt's, that's actually one of my favorite pieces of any composer alongside hr2

[@phillach5181]

one of my favorite te

[@МихаилЭман-в8е]

Звук в этой записи "придушен", испорчен по сравнению с оригиналом записи с концерта.

[@MilaGontcharova]

Быстро, однообразно, бессмысленно....И где "Блуждающие огни"??? ИХ НЕТ.....Одна нервная истерия вместо божественной магии.... А у Валентина Боголюбова - ПОЛУЧИЛОСЬ!!!