Beethoven - Piano sonata n°29 op.106 "Hammerklavier" - Richter Blythburgh 1975 

Most of the time musicians are really good Sometimes they are really exceptional and their performance are impeccable Few times there are the magicians that are able to touch the soul, Richter is one of those chosen

Absolutamente grandioso el compositor y el intérprete

Absolutely magnificent, I'm totally entranced by the 3rd movement

Really great! Thank yo very much. It is good present to everybody who loves the classical music.

This is really gorgeous rendition played by the greatest artist !

S.Richter can play EVERYTHING

This may be the best interpretation ever

Incredibly terrific performance ~

After listening to the Adagio I was done for - for he rest of the weekend.

C'est une musique vraiment euphorisante. Et avec un véritable "chef d'orchestre au piano" comme Richter c'est double joie

Beautiful piano playing ! Thank you for posting :)

~Perfect!! Thank you Very Much!!

La oiu bella esecuzione di questo capolavoro paolo gentile de nittis

Magnifique interprétation !

From the beginning on Richter is a insider of this tremendous Beethoven sonata, not playing it from outside, - and he holds it together in full tension, inspite of its many different and difficult characters. The result (in Richter´s own words) is a true "mirror" of the great composer Beethoven.

Dies Alles ist so endlos schön das ich es kaum ertrage und ich mich fürchte es aufs neue zu hören aber es bleibt mich immer einladen....

Génial !!!!!!

Richter had the right sound for this sonata. He attacks the music with vigor, it's expressive, but unyielding.

Simplemente Magnífico!!!

This piano sonata opus 106 is the summit of all piano composition since and till now where the other piano works that follows by the master has left this earthy summit to a new world that only the great Beethoven has uncover and invite us those who have none materialistic and universal love to enter Beethoven's world .... since then music became greater than philosophy and deeper than religion...without sectarian dogma.... Ahh Beethoven 🎗 1

Третья часть потрясающая!Спасибо,прекрасная запись!Рихтер ❤❤❤

Grazie

Of all the R versions I know of this work,this is my favourite-captivating.

Masterly, one would expect.

Exciting live performance of this magnificent piano sonata in the majestic tempo with clear touch and perfectly effective dynamics. Truly hammer!

Realmente magnífico!

Quelle tristesse que la nature nous prive de tels génies ! Et quel bonheur que la technique les fassent revivre ! Immortels interprètes

Interprète d'exception avec une rigueur extraordinaire et une exacte interpretation de cette sonate élevé à la Grande Ecole soviétique le meilleur : Svietoslav Rchter

Great!!!!!

Spannende live Aufführung dieser goßartigen Klaviersonate im majestätischen Tempo mit klarem Anschlag und perfekt effektiver Dynamik. Echt Hammer!

Una deslumbrante confesión de la intimidad de Beethoven....Aplausos eternos para Richter!!!!!

C'est fascinant de comparer cette interprétation à celle de Prague, aussi en 1975 et aussi sur RU-vid...

I'd love to hear a recording (if there is one) of the performance he gave of this sonata at King's, Cambridge around this time

31:33 - 33:38 JUST MAGIC

Nadie ha alcanzado la perfeccion como lo ha hecho Richter. El numero uno con diferencia

It was at the railway station 10/06/1980 in Kiev. I told Richter about my dream - to hear “Hammerklavier” in his performance. He clutched his head: “What difficult works you want to hear! I played it… played… But it is one of the ha… , no, it is the hardest thing in all music!”

This (and Praha 1975, also Richter) are absolutely the best interpretations ever of Hammerklavier. Listen also to Vedernikov ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zYBfk1Vdlvw.html ). But Richter's emotional participation is unsurpassed. In my opinion in these performances he was possessed by the spirit of L.v.B.

Very nice tempo of the first movement. Thankfully he is not trying to play it crazy fast. Very tasteful. 😌👍🏻

Holy

Yeah man !!! His Excellence shows us how its gotta be !!...This is Treasu...pardon...Slava !!

I compare this sonata to the first sonata op 2 n.1 played by Richter. The difference is remarkable, obviously this is a much more ambitious and original piece of work. Hammerklavier could be summed as the culmination or almost culmination of years upon years of study, experimentation and development of musical ideas, all of which would merge into a cohesive and integral piece of music. A piece of music that also explores psychological dephs and emotions that wouldn’t be accesible or known without music. It also gives shape to a whole new era of music, romanticism, listen to the third movement and try hearing something classical about it, to me it’s entirely romantic.

Da parecchio tempo penso che ogni composizione ha una sua velocità di esecuzione, sia lenta che veloce. Questa esecuzione è pari a quella che ascoltai da Backhaus negli anni settanta.

Hi there, can you listen to my UBC Nest 2nd Try Hammerklavier interpretation? It's in the time stamp in comments. Thanks.

Does anyone know when and where the photo was taken?

Dat hij zulke muziek uit een piano haalt, uit een 'ding' . Bij sommige delen van de muziek kan ik alleen nog zwijgen, op andere momenten heb ik de neiging mijn armen in de lucht te steken en te roepen "help" !Sviatoslav Richter voegt zichzelf toe aan de muziek.

La photographie en noir et blanc représentant Richter en train de jouer semble avoir été prise à la Grange de Meslay, près de Tours, en France, où Richter a joué une quinzaine de jours après ce concert enregistré à Blythburg en juin 1975.

リヒテルはこの曲の4楽章フーガで度忘れしたアクシデントもあってこの曲を演奏したのは74年～75年だけの22回だけだが　この怪物的ソナタを圧倒的なライブ演奏をのこしている　　　複雑きわまりなく技術的にも難しいこの曲の圧倒的名演 こういう曲で聴くといかにリヒテルが希代のピアニストだったかがよくわかる

This is a good performance but I find Richter's version of the Hammerklavier recorded the same year in Prague superior, sharper and more focused.

If you can master the Hammerklavier, you can master anything.

Why didn't Richter, nor Gilels for that matter, ever defect?

Ik vind het IV deel Largo-Allegro risoluto heel bijzonder maar ook zo vreemd alsof het door een andere componist is geschreven dan Sv. Richter.

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Does any pianist actually enjoy playing the Hammerklavier?

you really have to be a master of the instrument to appreciate this piece i've played piano for ten years and i still don't get the appeal for it

Wat een STUK ! ! !...dit moet je wel aankunnen en niet alleen als Performer maar ook als luisteraar !

21:14

Schnabel and his student, Leonard Shure

There are only a few piano gods on the top of Olympus and Richter is one of them. We can not objectively judge them - we only judge by our very subjective perception. Our personal 👍- that’s what we have, nothing else, unless we are in the same elite bunch, which is unlikely. They are equal in their mastery, but interpret the same musical piece with different palettes. Does it make sense to argue about quality of the luxury cars, judging them by the difference in color?

Check out the same sonata by Gilels and Pollini!

Okay, pretty bad, but still one of the best recordings that I have ever heard.

The adds were so putrid F! This world

This fuckin' guy -- is there anything he doesn't own?

No . There is Schnabel .

Era evidentemente in serata no perché, al di là delle debolezze manuali, ha esibito una interpretazione piatta ed incolore, che non rende certo giustizia alla sua arte pianistica né tantomeno a quel baluardo della Cultura occidentale che è la Hammerklavier

I can’t with his mistakes. He is sloppy and imprecise, and it spoils the listening experience. He may have energy and talent, but he is not the only one out there, and there are many other pianists who practice enough not to make mistakes. Boo!

Molto bene grazie Evitaeterna.vghyu