Sviatoslav Richter plays Rachmaninoff Etude & Prelude - video 1966 best quality

[@jackcurley1591]

Richter was such a beast, my god. He just consumed the whole piano when he played

[@CLASSICALFAN100]

Arthur Rubinstein went to a Richter concert & started crying halfway through. He later said, "I never knew those sort of sounds were possible."

[@laurin__]

I know stupid generaization but i feel like you can almost feel the slavic temperament in the way he plays xD

[@jackcurley1591]

@@laurin__ most definitely!

[@scs_one]

@@laurin__ Richter was an ethnic german

[@laurin__]

@@scs_one but a cultural russian..?

[@keithjohnson5874]

Richter was such a great Rachmaninoff player. Thanks for sharing this video!

[@cynic150]

Yes, but the style had changed drastically since Rachmaninoff's time, I am sorry to say. There is great power here, but not much sense of humour. Richter's style was much straighter and more literal.

[@rdmccleary1]

@@cynic150 Certainly Richter plays the Prelude with a twinkle which you can see as he finishes.

[@ivanaraque]

LOVE IT, can't get enough of the Prélude (it was one of Richter's favorite encores)

[@georgealderson4424]

I love that Maestro Richter plays the music without silly gestures which are a distraction. Thank you.

[@joeya6795]

That's because his physical ability is beyond almost all other pianists, living or dead. Hence he doesn't need additional gestures to hide release tension.

[@inkognito8400]

Richter and Rachmaninoff the greats

[@busylifemeto]

Richter was a giant fearless musical an incomparable

[@dotoryllc3737]

my pandemic blues gets healed every time I listen to him. how fortunate these people saw him playing alive!!

[@alexustas2203]

Боже мой, как это сыграно! Рихтер это Вселенная, где не с кем сравнить, где Рихтер один единственный и неповторимый бриллиант. Как повезло тем кто в зале, кто мог слышать и сопереживать Великой музыке Рахманинова... Спасибо наш Святослав Рихтер! Мы гордимся мы счастливы что Вы Маэстро дали нам возможность наслаждаться Музыкой!

[@gijsschubert7901]

The great "titan" Sviatoslov at work - what a master

[@bogotana1990]

Bravo Maestro !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@stefanoparissemusic]

Here one can understand why Richter is among the greatest pianists ever.

[@amadeusradio9608]

Richter made the piano look small. Literally.

[@MrGer2295]

Great performance ! Thanks for sharing :)

[@BachBusoni]

The etude is the best performance I've ever heard anyone play of the piece!

[@anastasis2183]

which one? he played two

[@anastasis2183]

he is great though i agree

[@firephilosopher7645]

@@anastasis2183 He played one etude and one prelude.

[@simerhy]

é a melhor entre as várias versões dele. fantástico ! obrigado

[@ВладимирКузнецов-с8к2щ]

Какие же мощные басы!Аж мурашки по коже !

[@georgeantipov7870]

Не только мощные но ещё и чётко сыгранные?

[@ronstriebig2749]

Pianist of the 20th Century I have a signed programme of his London Concert

[@gnorn3607]

Richter + random chair = unbeatable combination! (See also his Chopin Etude Op. 10 No. 4)

[@syourke3]

The chair did a 👏 great job and doesn’t get enough credit. 😂

[@nelidaferraz6497]

My very beautiful prelude. The melody comes from a very distant land.

[@789armstrong]

totally awesome!

[@ivan96148]

Thank's a lot!!!!

[@speedcartooning9526]

Walks like an elf, plays like giant

[@jennyjang5894]

Superb! Superb~~~!!

[@gerdlindlar1980]

outstanding!

[@andreasandergast6839]

... and wonderful as well

[@сергейкириллов-й3я]

BRAVO!!!BRAVISSIМO!!!

[@КаринаМаргунова-п8б]

Музыкант- мыслитель 👍Великий👍👍

[@HilaryLuo-v7q]

The greatest

[@Alix777.]

that pedalling...

[@svendbosanvovski4241]

Apparently it was impossible to teach Richter. He was less than an average student and dropped out of school. I'm sure that when Neuhaus declared that he couldn't teach him anything, he was being factual. A great genius such as Richter must follow his own muse without distraction. So take heart, you clever ones, Einstein, Debussy and many others had difficulty absorbing the instructions of pedagogs and preferred to march to the beat of their own drum.

[@viggos.n.5864]

The Art of Piano by Heinrich Neuhaus maybe

[@rtnmxh6457]

​@JuanRamonSilva written by Bruno Monsaingeon

[@atsukopronobis]

素晴らしい演奏💐💐💐 リヒテルの迫力ある演奏、ありがとうございます😊

[@VICTOBERN]

If you have been closely associated with the pianoforte since infancy, you appreciate what you are hearing and simply admire. The score comes first, just like the writer before the finished novel. But with music the player has to accommodate that score with integrity and accuracy and his or her own inner instinctive talent or creativity. Therefore l feel it simply wise and perhaps sensible to accept exceptional ability as it stands and salute the player. Because l would guess that 99% of commentators could not replicate this Etude in this way.

[@allasegal128]

Marvelous

[@wolfgangwagner4484]

the master

[@glpxt]

How he stomps on that pedal …

[@hghan]

bravo!!!!!!!

[@БорисШалагінов]

Я слышал 9-й этюд ("Ярмарка") в более утончённом исполнении Павла Серебрякова. У Рихтера это мощное симфоническое звучание, у Серебрякова - лубок, играющий всеми красками и оттенками народного быта.

[@Yuriy1969ful]

22/04/64 - Moscow - Kremlin hall.

[@markgreen2146]

このラフマニノフのエチュードは、リヒテルかホロヴィッツの演奏が双璧。 歴史的に抜けて素晴らしい二代巨頭の演奏が人類の宝だと思う。 このコンサートで弾いたメンデルスゾーンの厳格な変奏曲も圧巻だ。

[@sebastianbach6914]

IL Maestro...

[@hqvx]

This is not the original speed. If you set your KZbin playback speed to 0.95, you get a much more accurate speed.

[@paolofranceschi6874]

Oooooh... 😮😮😮

[@boriskind]

WOW!!!!!

[@Uldor667]

Крутой!

[@agostinopapp9944]

Just as Sergei played

[@andreasandergast6839]

Wahnsinn!

[@Lion_McLionhead]

In a time when they led the world in space exploration, Soviet recording media was extremely outdated.

[@mirkojorgovic]

If we asked for best pianist ever, Richter is close to win. Seccond candidate is Rachmaninoff. Third ,and also close to win in western world was Horowitz. However, from piece to piece, that's matter of individual taste. Arthur Rubinstein was good and Cortot for Chopin , ...

[@jormaple]

Rachmaninoff, Gould, Richter, Horowitz, Gilels is my personal selection

[@franciscoespinozagamboa6490]

@@jormaple Richter, Horowitz, Gilels los tres gigantes

[@EmptyVee00000]

Mirko Jorgovic Ashkenazy, Gilels, Kissin, Rachmaninoff and Richter are in my top ten. Horowitz was a charlatan.

[@viggos.n.5864]

There is no best in art

[@zorrderschnitter2]

"no-prisoners-richter"

[@will73a]

ㅇ퓨ㅠㅇㅕㅑ톷

[@oriolespunymontfort5871]

Y el tío se va, como si nada...

[@oriolespunymontfort5871]

I el paio se'n va com si res

[@Fritz_Maisenbacher]

3:00 homosexual virility

[@johnevans3115]

Just a jangle of noise. We've heard it all before.

[@gorankatic40000bc]

Forget Richter, those are two good compositions from Rachmaninov. But they would never be alive in such a manner without the performer. So we cannot forget about Richter. The circle is closed. Still you could listen without knowing who is performing and understanding that the performance is good and that the composer spoke, or did not spoke with you. When it comes to Rachmaninov's piano music I am partial because I like it a lot.

[@gjeacocke]

What do you mean exactly by ‘we’ve heard it all before’?

[@dgollaher]

ignorant

[@viggos.n.5864]

Stfu

[@viggos.n.5864]

Man