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[@dasglasperlenspiel10]

Thank you, excellent comparison!

[@alessandrodelmonte5765]

Quando si parla di GIGANTE io intendo solo Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli . In lui solo la suprema perfezione.😊❤

[@carmelocarlosturpinfernand8023]

El primero, aparece más claro y contundente, gracias a Dios por estos dos pianistas, regalos Suyos a toda la Humanidad.

[@RB-bj9ms]

I've never heard trills played so evenly, crisply and beautifully as Michelangeli.

[@findbridge1790]

Toscanini vs Furtwangler :)

[@inkognito8400]

Sad that there is no video recording of Richter playing the op.111 in the 60s. That would have been a splendid comparison. Richter is great here, but in the 60s he was a God. ABM is fantastic as always and I enjoy this specific performance. However, I always liked Richter's pure or raw approach a bit more. I find it more honest. But that's just me

[@JohnGavin-hz9bc]

Michelangeli kept his concert repertoire relatively small, Richter played a huge amount of music during his career. I know this is just my own perception- there is something more special, more transcendent in Michelangeli’s playing to my ears. It is more otherworldly and ultimately memorable IMO.

[@Architravsky]

ABM!

[@radulelutiu7921]

Michelangelo vs. Leonardo. Who wore it best?

[@carmelocarlosturpinfernand8023]

El segundo, aparece un tanto más expresivo.

[@ManjulaBrahmachari]

Pollini solos both

[@carmelocarlosturpinfernand8023]

Dos grandes pianistas, gracias a Dios.

[@goodalearch1100]

Maybe it’s unfair to compair these two performances; different pianos, acoustic conditions. Yet, ABM plays as if god/Beethoven is guiding his hands, heart, brain. There’s no pianist who plays to such sublimity like ABM performs.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

More colorful beautiful piano sound than ABM=Wilhelm Kempff Emil Gilels Radu Lupu Artur Rubinstein Vladimir Ashkenazy Grigory Sokolov! More genius than ABM=Sviatoslav Richter Solomon Cutner Grigory Sokolov Maurizio Pollini Stanislav Bunin Maria Grinberg! More powerful louder than ABM=Mikhail Pletnev(Prokofiev piano concerto no 1 by Pletnev!) The Second Loudest ever was Lazar Berman! The 3rd Loudest was Erwin Nyiregyhazi! ABM played the second-rated piano concertos like Mozart 13 Haydn G Major Liszt no 1! ABM never played the Best piano concertos like Mozart 24 Brahms 1-2 Chopin 1-2 Prokofiev 1-3 Rachmaninov 1-3 Saint-Saens no 2 Tchaikovsky no 1 JS Bach 1052 Beethoven no 4 Scriabin and so on! ABM was the Cyborg Human machine!

[@MildnerA]

You’re right, the comparison is not perfect, yet I hope it helps demonstrate how each „giant“ technically, emotionally and intellectually approached a genius piece at a particular point in life.

[@MildnerA]

@@RaineriHakkarainen Thanks for commenting. It is always and by nature must remain a question of personal preference who played what piece when better than anyone else. And it’s true that history not always treats potential „giants“ fairly. Yet, I still think that all in all ABM can be considered a giant of piano playing.

[@bobjones-bt9bh]

@@RaineriHakkarainen this is a literally ridiculous comment. Kindly STFU. Most of the pianists you mention are not, by anyone, held in the same regard as Michelangeli

[@italnsd]

@@RaineriHakkarainen OMG, here we go again, This guy trolls every Michelangeli's video with the same copied and pasted message mentioning every pianist that came to his mind. Apparently, he does not believe that avoiding what he does not like is sufficient, he is on a mission to make sure no single human likes ABM 😂

[@pascal8534]

Michelangeli is too calculated and dry here. On the contrary, Richter's is a journey of animalistic, dynamic extremes.

[@MildnerA]

Thanks for commenting. What makes both interpretations acceptable to me is that both „giants“ try hard (as I hear it and see it) to put all their hart, soul, intellect and technique at the disposal of this genius piece by Beethoven. The result is then up to us to like or dislike.

[@carmelocarlosturpinfernand8023]

El piano de Beneditti aparece más sólido, claro y explendente