Sviatoslav Richter plays Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 7, op. 10 no. 3 - video 1976

[@janwillemheijbroek9107]

Wow! What a stunning and marvellous performance! This is Beethoven and Richter in optima forma! What a genius, what a romantic poet this always surprising Sviatoslav Richter ! A true hero!!

[@alexustas2203]

Самое лучшее исполнение этой сонаты которое я когда-либо слышал. Где-то разве что искры не летят из под клавиш, а где-то сама нежность в обращении с роялем. Широчайший диапазон при невероятном исполнительском мастерстве. И сколько бы времени не прошло, сколько бы новых исполнителей не появлялось, Рихтер - как яркий бриллиант во все времена!

[@antonellamajorano5348]

Concordo pienamente .

[@JuanRamónSilva-Piano]

Because modern pianists are raised with luxury and the help of mommy and daddy to help their careers take off, they might be very accomplished technically but they can’t get to this level of sentiment. They haven’t tasted real toughness, they haven’t gone through true hardship. Richter carries within him the Russian soul, the soul of a tortured nation that nevertheless keeps fighting and going forward despite the hardships. He is a true soul, a true human spirit, a rare occurrence actually. Thanks Richter for reminding us what humanity is really about.

[@UserUser-mt7ee]

Душа Рихтера не русская, а немецкая. Это я вам говорю как русская. Русская душа мутная и хаотичная. Немецкая - ясная и гармоничная. Отец Рихтера был его первым учителем. Он был расстрелян в Одессе в начале войны советскими палачами только за то, что был немцем по национальности.

[@paulparoma]

*ни прошло

[@sam0xin]

Richter’s Beethoven sonatas turned as a symphonies !! Amazing ! Unparalleled! Fantastic!

[@giorgiocivillini9106]

The great Richter!! Beautiful 😍

[@timward276]

Terrific performance of what I think is the greatest of the early Beethoven sonatas.

[@giuseppemariaperego8937]

Interpretazione sublime!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉 Rest in peace Grande Maestro Sviatoslav Richter ❤❤❤ Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962 Grazie

[@brianpotter9282]

Thank you so much for posting this important piece of history for us all!

[@jennyjang5894]

Wonderful...true Maestro..!

[@danielalaura5973]

Obozavam ovu sonatu...obozavam Richtera...obozavam ovo izvodjenje❤️💐👏

[@giuseppemariaperego8937]

Sviatoslav Richter""Zar di tutta la Musica!"❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉 Giuseppe

[@antonellamajorano5348]

Interpretazione straordinaria!!! Richter emoziona sempre. In Beethoven è grandissimooooo. Quegli accordi strappati del secondo movimento....drammatici all'inverosimile. E la sinistra straordinaria, nel primo movimento, che crea quasi uno suing contemporaneo , come avviene iuna delle ultime sonate. E il mare calmo , o a volte imbronciato, dell'ultimo movimento. Una meraviglia di sonata e di interpretazione. Qui c'è tanto colore, che non ho trovato in altre esecuzioni.

[@ttrons2]

I also love his poise when he plays.

[@mehmeteminakbulut9772]

What a great performance...

[@davetubervid]

Wonderful performance of this early great sonata. Richter reaches sublimity in the slow movement.

[@ivanaraque]

Spectacular Richter, amazing reading of this neglected sonata.

[@albertomartin4812]

Ivan Araque It's one of Beethoven's most wonderfully energetic works.

[@지실험]

Yes, this masterpiece has been neglected...

[@alanleoneldavid1787]

I don't think is Neglected . Is studied a lot on consevatories. This year I have to Analize it for the most important theory subject of Córdoba (ARG) Conservatory. And A friend of mine played last year

[@ivanaraque]

@@alanleoneldavid1787 saludos a Córdoba la docta :))

[@musicmasterplayer4532]

Richter, as I recall, also performed this sonata in 1960 at Carnegie Hall. I used a recording of that performance and the Gould recording to help prepare my own performance of this work as a music student many years ago. I had the notes prepared for that first movement but listening to the Gould recording caused me to increase the tempo...I got through it but included some notes not composed by Beethoven. Still, always better to be influenced by the greats. The slow movement I played in a masterclass in front of a world famous musician, I was intimidated by the occasion and gave a subdued performance. So, this work has many memories for me.

[@stefanufer608]

The first time I’ve properly listened to this sonata - Richter kept me enthralled

[@TheRealGnolti]

No. 7 Op 10, No 3 was, oddly enough, the Beethoven sonata that got me hooked on Beethoven as a youngster.

[@yawenliu6648]

I attended Bronfman’s concert 2 days ago, he played 3 Beethoven piano sonatas, the other two being no.11 & 23, I liked this one the most. I am 35, not sure still young or not hahaha

[@3047L-r1g]

this is fantastic; thank you.

[@bookerdewitt7576]

such a precious recording！The “sf” played by richter is really “sf”！！

[@esauponce9759]

Indeed!

[@stefanufer608]

Most Russian pianists like a good “bang”!

[@sinokomp]

Thank you for uploading!

[@gurthbruins6411]

The tone of great genius

[@Benjamin3344]

Thank you for uploading. Fantastic😀

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

my favourite sonata - especially movements 2 and 3.

[@esauponce9759]

Absolutely amazing! 🎹♥️

[@lauracamilli4559]

The best ever and ever

[@wyk777]

nice... lovely richter!

[@hanssachs3022]

Genie.Gott sei Dank,dass er mit uns es geteilt hat,und dass manche von uns es schätzen können.

[@themise1416]

Wow bro Wow! R.I.P. Richter (little girl in green claps twice and stops). Beethovan immortal!

[@SuperMelvyn]

Right from the beginning the music has a sense of direction and purpose. Attention is given to so many details that simply rush past in most performances yet the architecture of the whole is never sacrificed.

[@luise.pereze.1969]

Excelente comprensión, aplicable a todas las obras del Sumo Coloso, Ludwig von Beethoven...

[@luise.pereze.1969]

Aludo al sentido de dirección y propósito...

[@alvarito45]

Nice playing, great!

[@pianopera]

What a treat, many thanks!

[@wyk777]

Richter know no.7 essence the real essence of beethoven 7!!! very accurate touch very accurate dynamic!!!

[@alvarogarciabarbosa3199]

Richter si toca esta No. 7 en máxima calidad y perfección. Andras Schiff la califica como preciosísima y una de las mejores entre las 32. Bueno, para mi todas son grandiosas y en cuanto a tipo de composición no tienen equivalente entre toda la literatura musical. Richter...grande!!!

[@張祖璨]

The beginning of the third movement always makes me cry.

[@MultiRedskins12]

Oh no! It is indeed a beautiful work . . . stay safe 🤗

[@wolfgangklofat594]

Or is it the second one?!

[@Daniel_Zalman]

Such an underrated sonata.

[@mcrettable]

Nah. I think the first movement is underwhelming, so it's a bad first impression. The other movements are genius though.

[@ulfwernernielsen6708]

Danny B. This is a fabulous sonata, but I don’t think it’s underrated. In my opinion the greatest among the early sonatas . Many pianists who don’t play all 32 sonatas are playing this: Watts Horowitz Zimmerman Argerich Fischer Richter because it’s so great.

[@Hotspur77]

Indeed. Richter plays it the right way. This sonata demonstrates Tovey’s point about Beethoven and “play” (Tovey compared the boundless energy of LvB’s sunnier works to that of dogs and children - I think he has a point, aptly illustrated here). Richter is such a lion. This is how it should be done.

[@seleneparis4414]

I've been playing this for decades because it is so wonderful! It's been one of my private pleasures (no immature speculation tolerated) BECAUSE it is full of joy and enthusiasm. And, BTW, Mr. Richter pointedly performed THIS ONE. So, if you have a problem with that --- why don't you take it up with Mr. Richter's spirit? Seriously.

[@jean-mariedethier5495]

Extraordinaire narration de l'indicible ! Richter en mouvement sur le flot des émotions pures, au-delà des styles et des traditions. N'est-ce pas la finalité de toute musique ?

[@shjeong615]

truly astonishing. Richter is the best!

[@SebastianWill]

This sonata is so made for Richter! Or Richter made for this sonata? Captivating...

[@香かおり-v6x]

このチャンネルを通じて、偉大な芸術に触れることが出来ることに、感謝します。

[@ignaciooteo7608]

richter te amo sos lo mas grande del heavy nacional

[@janbonsema5888]

jason percy nicely put. but he always played that way Had supreme self confidence and always came out victorious. It's not that he rehearsed so much , he must have rehearsed, sure,but to a point. What he didnm't have in his fingers once one stage, he winged. But he had done that since his repetitor job at with the Dasnce groups at Odessa Conservatory. And anothert thing, he somehow adds to Beethoven's composition, nothing that wasn't written down mind you, but he adds something because he always nailed it, musically, technically , spritually......

[@GuyMannDudeTheOnly]

A treasure....

[@wyk777]

Sviatoslav Richter only richter's way!! only!!! original beethoven!

[@camilloflaim7242]

Non è necessaria solo l'interpretazione della sonata ma anche la potenza nelle braccia e nelle dita che scolpiscono le note in modo indelebile nell'udito di chi ascolta evidenziando tutti i particolari della musica composta da Beethoven.

[@ЯрославПятков-р3ж]

Как красивааааааааааа!!!!!

[@jean-mariedethier5495]

Je réécoute pour la Xme fois : incroyable mais vrai !

[@MultiRedskins12]

Best in the business. The end.

[@andante-q9x]

リヒテルの素晴らしいベートーベンのｿﾅﾀ壮大な素敵な音楽有り難うございます

[@wolfgangklofat594]

Im unmittelbar gehörten Vergleich: Igor Levit sucht in seinem Spiel zu sehr nach der richtigen Gestaltung und unterliegt dabei der Gefahr, die Sonate auseinander zu nehmen und sie nicht mehr zusammen zu bringen. Grigorij Sokolov sucht und findet überzeugend den Zugang zur differenzierten Ausdruckswelt Beethovens. Svjatoslav RICHTER aber hat (wie so oft) die notennahe Werkspannung der Sonate von Anfang an in sich und zieht diese auch beispielhaft durch.

Sad that the editor cut bits out!!!! - 9:43

[@texwiller4029]

CCCP produced so much good things. Really!

[@ediccartman7252]

Richter by no mean was a Soviet product.

[@btr152]

@@ediccartman7252 yeah, right. Born and educated in the USSR, but not a Soviet musician. Funny.

[@Qw12-e4h]

Richter the master

[@filippolanza3555]

I love when start the part at 4.02 !!!

[@michaelwisse9284]

A russian Angel

[@olexandrselyaninoff8881]

він український піаніст :)

[@gerlindeczech8524]

@@olexandrselyaninoff8881 Nein, er ist ein russischer Pianist, der in der Ukraine zeitweise lebte..in Odessa. Sein Vater war deutsch, seine Mutter russisch. Sein Vater wurde zu Anfang des dt.Überfalls von den Sowjets umgebracht!

[@olexandrselyaninoff8881]

@@gerlindeczech8524 Richter wurde in Schytomyr geboren. Schytomyr ist die Ukraine. Später, ab seinem 16. Lebensjahr, lebte er in Odesa. Odesa ist auch Ukraine. Mehr als einmal erwähnte er die Ukraine mit Wärme und Liebe, weil er sich als Ukrainer positionierte.

[@dja_01]

Surprised by the lack of voicing with the alberti bass in the second movement. Obviously Richter had the technical facility to execute this, so I'm curious why he chose not to...

[@박경민-e8g]

노래가 좋내요.ㅎㅎ

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

2nd movement reminds one of his quartet number 1 slow movement...

[@volkerf.sesselmann6783]

meine persönliche Referenzeinspielung dieser Sonate

[@marcogalli4603]

...indeed it is possible to play as a god with no motion of head, body, with no finger-dance, with no face-drama. Actually only the end of every finger touches the key...

[@othmanmajid6380]

....different horses different courses...😊

[@Hotspur77]

Richter just plays this shit out of this sonata. This is a “take no prisoners” performance. HIP be damned.

[@eljonq1812]

beautiful. spectacular. Andras preferred this sonata over the more popular, and overrated Pathetique.

[@antranpiano1016]

Well, the Pathetique sonata (the following sonata Beethoven wrote after this one ) has its star qualities too, such as Beethoven depicting the feeling of pathos (suffering) and the 3 wonderful movements, so I wouldn't say it is overrated. But, to each their own.

[@ingaromanishin5426]

Please moon sonata today

[@jamesnickoloff6692]

Richter is still playing without the score at this point. But that will change soon; he acknowledged that no one can remember every detail of a composer's wishes, and he wanted to be as faithful as possible to what composers had created.

[@evewong3221]

14:00

[@tree_fingers]

Beethoven would've liked Richter :)

[@almasmusic683]

Эталон

[@giuseppemariaperego8937]

Le parole non possono esprimere ciò che sento. Interpretazione "al di là dell'umano" Giuseppe Perego Monza 16.2.1962

[@camilloflaim8933]

Yes.....but... i can't say !

[@johnevans3115]

Give us a smile, once in a while, Richter...

[@ADGO]

+john evans You've written this on a few different Richter videos. Perhaps you should focus on the music, and look for Richter smiling at other times in his life, which he did often enough.

[@scarpiapiano]

john evans - Rachmaninoff had a dour expression on his face whenever he performed. That didn't seem to dampen his abilities. Maybe you should watch Libarace videos if you need to watch a pianist who "smiles once in a while".

[@albertomartin4812]

john evans That's interesting, because to me, for example the first movement lacks a lot of joy, absolutely required in this work.

[@ediccartman7252]

@@albertomartin4812 3rd and 4th movements too. He plays it like Also sprach Zarathustra.

[@minkyukim839]

0:14

[@savemail6929]

Pshaw!... Not even lost a single note

[@karlakor]

I am surprised at the liberties that Richter takes with tempo in the last movement.

[@othmanmajid6380]

...he's a musician....the notes are only a guide to what is possible....which makes Richter the consummate artiste😊

[@mytake3692]

Has anybody noticed that his tone is stern, gruffy, unsmiling, and totally dry, and they call him a genius?

[@fawnnivalen4247]

did anyone hear his wrong notes? or was it just me?

[@지실험]

Nichole Ye 2:23

[@mlaux72]

It’s a live performance. Wrong notes were included in the ticket.

[@AbcAbc-ox6pg]

Who cares. Doesn't have effect on musicality.

[@MultiRedskins12]

Nichole No it was just you.

[@antranpiano1016]

@@AbcAbc-ox6pg Agree.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Not fast enough. Richter paralysed as playing Beethoven, as usual.

[@MultiRedskins12]

Your opinion three years ago was rubbish and you couldn’t spell then either. Looks like nothing’s changed!

[@seleneparis4414]

WIYMFP, AH?

[@voce29]

Largo e mesto?? Sehr langsam und "traurig"!! Listen to Sokolov!!

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

Much too polite . Richter has too much "respect" for this "holy" score . The only two who were able to rape it properly were Schnabel and even more Gould , playing it like a young Attila . For me his best recording , complete genious ....(and I am NOT a Gould fan !)

[@MultiRedskins12]

Rape it properly? Your command of the English language is right up there with your opinion. Just wrong.

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

@@MultiRedskins12 Say why it is wrong. (and yes, I said "rape" , where is the problem ?)

[@ElieElKhoury19]

@@Fritz_Maisenbacher 3 years later and you still stand by that comment? XD

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

@@ElieElKhoury19 Yes, I stand by this comment. Serious music is not comfortable, it's savagery.

[@seleneparis4414]

You are a weird, sick, Philistine PUNK!

[@在下法预量]

One of the worst performances in the world.

[@ilovemycatrussell9298]

Uh no

[@MultiRedskins12]

千条人 troll

[@antranpiano1016]

You're joking, right? This is a great interpretation in my opinion.

[@bookerdewitt7576]

不至于不至于……

[@在下法预量]

That was Rrally bad,really "Schreiβe"!Too bad....I really didn't expect him to play so bad.

[@kruslion6435]

0:16

[@muscanto9205]

0:16